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2023 ESA - Symposium 25 - Leveraging Open Educational Resources for Inclusive and Effective Ecology Education
This is a resource page for ESA 2023 Symposium 25 Organizer: Natasha Gownaris Co-organizers: Kyle Whittinghill, Taylor Zallek, Nathan Brouwer, Aaron Howard, Dan Wetzel, Castilleja Olmstead, Nathan Emery. ...

Compass: Advancing Earth Education Resource Discovery
Sean Fox, Carleton College
The Compass project responds to the need, identified by the Earth Education community, to improve the discoverability of existing, high-quality Earth education resources. The project will focus on three key ...

Compass Community Discovery Advisors
The following people are engaged with the Compass project as Community Discovery Advisors (CDAs). × Jennifer Anderson Jennifer Anderson is a Professor of Geoscience at Winona State University in southeastern ...

This round of Search Engine Tuning is done
Thanks for your interest.  We collected a lot of good data from the community and used it to do an initial tuning of our search engine.  Be sure to sign up to learn about future opportunities.

About Compass
Project Description SERC currently hosts materials from over 120 geoscience education projects, and the majority of geoscience faculty report using these sites to support their teaching (Manduca et al., 2017). But ...

Compass Walkthrough Consent Form
Compass: Advancing Earth Education Resource Discovery (administered in online form) Description of the Project The Compass project responds the need, identified by the Earth Education community to improve the ...

The SERC front page has been redesigned.
We dug deep into the data around historical use of our front page to understand how it could better support our visitors. This led to new front page structures that we hope will better guide users toward productive ...

Help Us Tune our Search Engine
We are tuning the search engine that underpins all the SERC-hosted site. If you're an Earth educator and have a couple minutes to spare consider participating in our tuning exercise.  It's simple, ...

New Navigation Tools
The Compass project has advanced a pair of new navigation tools for visitors to SERC hosted sites. The 'Where I've Been Feature' allows you to review and revisit content that you've visited ...

Year 3 Plan
This plan informed SERC's Compass work between the spring of 2023 and 2024. Our active work is informed by our current plan. Improve outcomes for visitors using the search engine Make standardized search ...