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Assessing the Impact of Technology-Rich Spaces on Student Learning

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National Digital Libraries

Digital media libraries have the potential to connect a global audience to a wide range of source materials--free of charge. This increased global accessibility will interconnect cultures and researchers across disciplines and may enhance our knowledge base for the future. While these digital media libraries are not solely focused on assessing the impact of technology on student learning, this is an innovative tool that integrates technology and may impact student learning. Most of the annotated descriptions associated with these libraries have been taken from the individual web sites and should not be seen as promoting one library over another.

California Digital Library
Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the University of California, the California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve. Established in 1997 as a UC library, the CDL has become one of the largest digital libraries in the world.

DSpace
Jointly developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs. Freely available as open source software. This is a digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes digital research material.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
This is supported as part of NSF's National Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library program.