NEEDS—A Digital Library for Engineering NEEDS—A Digital Library for Engineering Education at www.needs.orgEducation at www.needs.org

Joe Tront, Co-PIJoe Tront, Co-PI

Virginia TechVirginia Tech

Alice M. Agogino, PIAlice M. Agogino, PI

University of California at University of California at BerkeleyBerkeley

NEEDS helps teachers & learnersNEEDS helps teachers & learners

• Find learning resourcesFind learning resources• Search for multimedia engineering learning Search for multimedia engineering learning

resources & save in workspaceresources & save in workspace• Standardized descriptions (metadata) to Standardized descriptions (metadata) to

describe resourcesdescribe resources• Recommender system and synonym searchRecommender system and synonym search

• Helps users evaluate the “quality of Helps users evaluate the “quality of materials”materials”• Premier AwardPremier Award• User Comments and ReviewsUser Comments and Reviews

Simple and advanced searchSimple and advanced search

The Premier Award for Excellence in The Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education CoursewareEngineering Education Courseware

• A national competition to identify and reward A national competition to identify and reward the authors of high-quality, non-commercial the authors of high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering courseware designed to enhance engineering educationeducation• The The Premier AwardPremier Award is about the entire is about the entire

experience of using the courseware by experience of using the courseware by learners, not just the courseware itselflearners, not just the courseware itself

• A dissemination system to distribute the A dissemination system to distribute the Premier Courseware (via CD’s, ASEE Prism ads, Premier Courseware (via CD’s, ASEE Prism ads, presentations at FIE and ASEE)presentations at FIE and ASEE)

Judging and Review ProcessJudging and Review Process

• Convene judging panelConvene judging panel• Professors/content experts, instructional Professors/content experts, instructional

designers, students, publishersdesigners, students, publishers

• Review supporting materials in the submission Review supporting materials in the submission packetpacket• Author supplied responses to criteriaAuthor supplied responses to criteria• Evidence of student learning and evaluationEvidence of student learning and evaluation• TestimonialsTestimonials

• Evaluate and test the coursewareEvaluate and test the courseware

2005 Premier Competition2005 Premier Competition

• Call for Submissions…Call for Submissions…

2005 2005 Premier AwardPremier Award

Due Friday, July 15, 2005Due Friday, July 15, 2005

Research is integrated into new Research is integrated into new services and featuresservices and features

• Extendable platform to integrate new services Extendable platform to integrate new services and featuresand features

• Interoperates with other digital libraries through Interoperates with other digital libraries through our OAI server and our search web services our OAI server and our search web services

• Latent semantic analysis, meta-thesauri and web Latent semantic analysis, meta-thesauri and web logs used for recommender / related resourceslogs used for recommender / related resources

• Gender equity/ diversity research in engineering Gender equity/ diversity research in engineering and information technologyand information technology

• Refresh learning resources for new cutting edge Refresh learning resources for new cutting edge technologies through NAE Engineer 2020 projecttechnologies through NAE Engineer 2020 project

• Mobile learning user studies and accessibilityMobile learning user studies and accessibility

Monthly ThemesMonthly Themes

Integration of NEEDS with TeachEngineeringIntegration of NEEDS with TeachEngineering

Other CollaborationsOther Collaborations

• Engineering resourcesEngineering resources• ABET tagging of metadata and accreditation ABET tagging of metadata and accreditation

seriesseries• Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (K-Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library (K-

MODDL)MODDL)• Engineering professional societiesEngineering professional societies• National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT)National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT)

• Related STEM resourcesRelated STEM resources• Digi-ChemDigi-Chem• Science MuseumsScience Museums

www.wiley.comwww.wiley.com

www.mathworks.comwww.mathworks.comresearch.microsoft.comresearch.microsoft.comwww.autodesk.comwww.autodesk.com

Thanks to our NEEDS SponsorsThanks to our NEEDS Sponsors

National Science Foundation and the National STEM National Science Foundation and the National STEM education Digital Libraryeducation Digital Library