Title :
BioSci education network (BEN) collaborative
Author :
Akli, Linda ; Collins, Cal T. ; Smith, Jason ; Butler, Ron ; Chang, Amy ; George, Yolanda ; Gough, Nancy ; Lowy, Melinda ; Matyas, Marsha ; Muramatsu, Brandon ; Musante, Susan ; Taylor, Jason
Author_Institution :
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Sci., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The BEN Collaborative, spearheaded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and composed of professional societies and coalitions for biology education, is developing a revolutionary approach for transforming biology teaching and learning in undergraduate and graduate institutions, as well as professional schools. Through the development of a BEN portal site, the BEN Collaborative is providing users with searchable and seamless access to BEN Collaborators´ digital library collections of accurate and reliable biology education resources. The challenges met by BEN in collaboratively developing a portal site and digital collection is discussed.
Keywords :
Web sites; biology; digital libraries; educational computing; groupware; meta data; portals; societies; teaching; BEN collaboration; BEN portal site; BioSci education network; biology education resource; biology teaching; digital library collection; learning; metadata; professional school; professional society; undergraduate institution; Biological materials; Biology; Biomedical materials; Collaboration; Education; Educational institutions; Portals; Professional societies; Software libraries; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1939-3
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204923
