Internet Scout, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
- Acts as an information hub and archiving service for the ATE community.
- Provides access to the full depth and breadth of ATE resources and initiatives.
- Fosters collaboration through access to information about all ATE centers and projects.
- Offers training, software, and documentation related to digital library collection building and maintenance.
ATE Central Connects Faculty To Full Array of ATE Resources
The tools and services in ATE Central connect faculty to a diverse collection of ATE resources and efforts designed to enhance student learning, a wide range of professional development opportunities, and an array of links to colleagues and programs in the ATE community.
By providing a pathway to the full spectrum of ATE resources and bringing together materials from multiple centers and projects in a single searchable location, ATE Central encourages cross-disciplinary learning and helps highlight the cross-disciplinary nature of today’s technician education programs.
ATE Central also supports the creation of new faculty collaborations and mentoring through an interactive interface. This interface guides users to ATE projects in their region or allows users to find all ATE centers and projects in their fields of interest.
ATE Central Amplifies ATE Program Efforts
In a multitude of ways, ATE Central showcases the aggregate impact of the ATE program for those within the ATE community as well as for those from industry, education, and the general public. It does this by supporting cross-programmatic collaborations within the ATE community and across National Science Foundation program areas.
ATE Central also provides ATE center and project personnel with a rich array of resources and tools to make their own programs more robust.
ATE Central’s open source software, Collection Workflow Integration System (CWIS), makes it easy to build searchable collections of materials, access best practice documentation for digital library creation and maintenance, and use tools that help track data about the usage and impact of ATE materials.
As an information hub for technical educators and ATE grant recipients, ATE Central provides an overview of events offered by centers and projects. ATE Central supports national dissemination efforts for ATE centers and projects through the creation and sharing of resource records in the ATE Central portal. These records, which describe the valuable resources created and collected by centers and projects, are harvested by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER). These 2 National Science Foundation-supported portals to free educational resources and services make ATE materials more accessible to a broad range of educators, librarians, and researchers nationwide.
