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Saturday, June 25, 2005  



AMSER - Applied Math and Science Education Repository
http://amser.org/

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program aims to build and sustain a national digital library that supports science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. NSDL funded projects form an integrated network of STEM learning environments and resources for a wide variety of learners, all the way from children in grade school up through graduate students and life long learners.
One set of links of particular importance in this educational chain are community and technical colleges, which train a significant percentage of our workforce and often act as a bridge between public schooling and baccalaureate education. To help bring NSDL to these students, as well as educators and others from community and technical colleges, the Internet Scout Project, located in the Computer Sciences department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, along with MERLOT, the American Association of Community Colleges, and other project partners, is being funded by the National Science Foundation to create the Applied Mathematics and Science Education Repository (AMSER), a collaborative NSDL Pathways project designed to help meet the resource and service needs of community and technical colleges and forge a link between these communities and the NSDL. AMSER will consist of a focused metadata repository and a variety of integrated services designed specifically to enhance the learning experience of the community college students and the teaching capabilities of instructors at those institutions. AMSER will create an ideal environment for success: a network of collaborating community college partners, an advisory board with members from all key sectors, a strong existing relationship with the NSDL CI and NSDL community, along with the Internet Scout Project's own expertise in resource discovery and online service development. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

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