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An online learning community of over 9,600 IHE faculty, K-12 teachers and administrators, researchers and evaluators.
Provides each project with its own interactive space to enable collaboration with partners
Has a human infrastructure behind this web portal to help each project make effective use of the resources and the collaborative tools.
MSPnet.org
The Hub Provides a mechanism for projects to learn from each other
Your “Project Space” provides your project interactive collaborative tools
Working Groups allow for emergent, smaller communities to arise
Predefined and Emerging Communities
MSPnet Home Page: Guest View
MSPnet Home Page: Member View
Once you log in, you see 3 tabs:
MSPnet Hub, Your Project Space and My MSPnet
MSPnet Home Page: Member View
Project Space: Member View
Member Profile
MSPnet: The MSP’s Online Learning Network
How is knowledge shared and mediated?
1. Sharing Resources
2. Engaging with an Enlarged Collegial Network
3. Collaborating Online
4. Articulating Lesson’s Learned and Disseminating Findings to Others
I. Sharing Resources & Keeping up to date
The Library Section has over 1,900 articles, over 500 authored by the MSP community about MSP projects, as well as dynamically generated collections related to each of the program’s five key features.
The Resources Section has over 475 Resources
The MSP Showcase has over 740 items featuring the work of 178 MSP projects
MSPnet LibraryOver 1,900 freely available papers and articles related to STEM education. Search areas of interest, find articles by leaders in the field, and discover findings from MSP project work.
MSPnet Library: Many ways to find articles of interest
MSPnet Library: Find Related Research
MSPnet Resources
The MSPnet Resource Center contains links to useful websites, MSP program information, policy updates, NSF and ED news, and the MSP Toolbox.
MSP Toolbox & Materials contains resources developedby the MSP community:
Protocols
Rubrics
Measurement tools
Assessment guides
MSPnet Resources
MSPnet Showcase
II. Being Part of an Enlarged Collegial Network
Voices from the Field: MSPnet Academy
MSPnet Academy offers webinars from leaders in the field.
MSPnet Academy offers webinars from leaders in the field.
Voices from the Field: MSPnet Academy
• Participate in live webinar
• Listen to archived webinar
• Take Part in the discussion
III. Engage in Collaborative Project Work
Develop your project space to maximize collaboration
• Add members
• Post articles to your library and invite your project members to comment
•Post resources (or copy from the hub) that are most pertinent for your project.
• Share videos, achievements, reports in your showcase
Create Events such as Webinars
Your project can make use of Adobe Connect free of charge
• Invite members of your project or other colleagues to participate in webinars that you will host
• Send invite through the site
• Archive webinars once they are finished and share with a larger audience
Creating Working Groups
Create Smaller Professional Learning Communities
• Collaborative tools include threaded discussions, a file manager, webinars, survey, and shared calendars. You can also email the entire working group.
• Project working groups can be private, project-wide, or site-wide
• Members may elect to receive a digest email notification
Create event registrations for the workshops that you run.
Invite constituents to register, then manage registrants online.
Online Event Registration
IV. Disseminating Results
• Use your project space to share results with the public. Link to (and from) external website
• Share your posts with the hub and share with other MSPs.
• New posts get shared through the weekly “MSP News” and is sent to over 9,000 educators.
MSP News
MSPnet’s weekly newsletter brings you recent research in the field of STEM education, and keeps you up-to-date on the latest news from the MSP program.
http:mspnet.org
We invite you to take an active role in contributing to the MSP’s online learning network.
Send questions and comments to [email protected]