Welcome

Dear NSDL Community Member,

We would like to invite you to participate in an NSF-sponsored workshop, "Developing an Evaluation Strategy for the Educational Impact of the National Science Digital Library" to be held in Washington DC, on October 2-3, 2003.

The purpose of this workshop is to develop a long-term strategy to guide evaluation and research activities on the educational impact of the NSDL. This strategy should be capable of guiding the overall NSDL effort, as well as the evaluation and research activities undertaken by individual investigators. Towards this end, we are bringing together a group of NSDL awardees and leading researchers from the fields of educational technology, cognitive science, program evaluation, and cognizant disciplines. An important workshop outcome will be the development of a report that will articulate a strategy and recommendations for action.

We look forward to your participation in this important community event.

Mary Marlino
Director, DLESE Program Center

Tamara Sumner
Chair, NSDL Educational Impact and Evaluation Standing Committee