Each year NSDL’s NEEDS/Engineering Pathway digital libraries host The Premier Award competition. A wide range of submissions of high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education are encouraged. Recently the 2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware was awarded to Richard Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Natalie Linnell, Craig Prince and members of the development team from […]

“Periodic Table Live!” is a notable new resource from the Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL). Students and teachers especially are invited to interact with the periodic table, chose an element of interest, and learn all sorts of interesting information about that element–from details of its discovery, to its industrial uses and other characteristics. Users […]

Along with a series of six Project SUCCEED Saturday Explorations workshops beginning on October 18 in Durham, NC, Robert M. Panoff, Shodor Executive Director, and staff members will also offer parallel workshop sessions on “Computational Thinking–Sources and Resources for Quantitative Reasoning in Math and Science Education.” These workshops are being offered to math and science […]

Ending two and a half days of networking, sharing research results, project outcomes and swapping good stories, almost 200 NSDL partners and projects said goodbye and headed home from Washington D.C. on October 2 to continue building NSDL’s capacity as a national platform for cyberlearning. Presentations will be downloadable from the Annual Meeting Full Schedule […]