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

fYear

2003

fDate

27-31 May 2003

Firstpage

405

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1939-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204923

Filename

1204923