INST 7150
Post IT Institute/INST 7000/7150 thoughts...with all the emphasis on digital libraries, online resources, learning objects, etc. - perhaps I missed the part about sustainability.... How useful is it for me to get my teachers to use some of these things, when they're going to be unavailable in a couple of years? Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is a good example - once enc.org, home to a plethora of math-based lesson plans, tutorials, java applets, etc. - now a paid subscription site due to the end of NSF funding. Then there's 4teachers.org - another collection of online tools - funding is gone, free access extended by a grant from Altec, but still ending soon...
Granted, given the current lack of support for actual education in this country by a pathetic shrub administration (herbicide, anyone?), this should probably not come as much of a surprise....but it still pisses me off.
posted by K at 12:12 AM
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So then why don't the grant/funding programs make those applying come up with a plan for long-term funding before giving them all the money? Or perhaps those issuing the grants should accept responsibility for sustaining projects like ENC or 4Teachers - ones that are still being used? Or is this something they'd rather not think about, let alone address?
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