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Lamont contributions to the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)

Project Leader:
Dr. Kim Kastens

Earth Institute Contact: Dr. Kim Kastens

Locations: Earth

Description:
The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. Lamont's main role in DLESE has been to develop the Community Review System (crs.dlese.org), a system which gathers, synthesizes, and disseminates feedback from people who have used DLESE resources for teaching or learning.

DLESE supports Earth system science education by providing:
- Access to high-quality collections of educational resources
- Access to Earth data sets and imagery, including the tools and interfaces that enable their effective use in educational settings
- Support services to help educators and learners effectively create, use, and share educational resources
- Communication networks to facilitate interactions and collaborations across all dimensions of Earth system education

DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more.

EI Unit:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

Core Disciplines:
Cross-Disciplinary

Project Web Site:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/DLESE/Last Modified: 12-31-1969