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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 contact@mspnet.org