Work in Progress: Personalizing a Course Website Using the NSDL

The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library, funded by the National Science Foundation, has the potential to have a significant impact on the future of education in this country and around the world. We are exploring how to best tailor NSDL functionality toward particular communities of users, including learners and educators. It is crucial that we not view the NSDL as merely a feature-rich Web site. We believe that, for the NSDL to have its intended impact, it needs to be integrated into the current pedagogical practices of educators and students. In this paper we present our work in progress in personalizing a course Web site using NSDL content. In particular, we focus on our initial efforts to build a collection of course syllabi for computing that can be used to help professors in the creating of new courses