Creating an educational digital library: GROW a national civil engineering education resource library

ABSTRACT

The GROW (Geotechnical, Rock and Water Engineering) project (http://www.grow.arizona.edu) is the first iteration of a National Civil Engineering Education Resource Library (NCERL). This educational digital library uses precise coding and metadata to integrate fully with the National Sciences Digital Library (NSDL) and to meet the learning, teaching, and research needs of audience groups consisting of K-12, higher education, engineering professionals, and the community at large. GROW is a portal to reviewed Civil Engineering resources throughout the World Wide Web and interactive, multimedia learning objects created by GROW team members. Through this project we demonstrate how to create an educational digital library that is flexible enough to meet the needs of a diverse audience and innovative enough to provide interactive self-contained learning objects.

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INDEX TERMS

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
graphic design, information architecture, user experience, user interface design