| National Internet-based Science Educational
Resource |
It's online, therefore it exists! |
The NISER Resources are developed by joint efforts of faculty,
researchers and students
from various UCLA departments of Statistics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Mathamatics, department of Chemistry
at OSU and the department of Industrial
Engineering at USC.
The NISER philosophy for
developing and utilizing new IT-resources, tools and educational
materials includes the following four principals: 1. Tools must be
freely available on the Web (NISER Motto: It’s online, therefore it exists!)
2. Newly developed materials must be useful, extensible, factually
correct, validated and deployed on the web. 3. Tools must be well
designed, extensible, platform-independent and open-source; 4.
Materials must explicitly utilize some NISER interactive resources
(e.g., activities with applet demos) and provide the means of cross
reference by various NISER tools (e.g., applet calculations citing
formulas in instructional materials).