Description:

The NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP) uses NASA's inspiring mission, unique facilities, and specialized workforce, along with the best emerging technologies, to promote excellence in America's educational system. LTP funds activities that deliver NASA mission content via the Internet and other technologies to foster reform and restructuring in math, science, computing, engineering, and technical education.

LTP promotes effective use of NASA information and knowledge for education and life-long learning by means of:

• Education Outreach Centers. NASA LTP Center projects breathe life and immediacy into curricula, incorporating technology to enhance learning and using technological advances to serve educational goals. Among the many NASA Center projects are the NASA Quest Learning Technologies Channel, which allows a multi-dimensional Web experience incorporating email, chat rooms, audio, video, synchronized graphics, and sometimes NASA Television to offer participants workshops, lectures, seminars, courses, and exciting live events around the world.
• Leading Educators to Applications, Research and NASA-related Educational Resources in Science (LEARNERS) Projects. The seven LEARNERS projects launched in late 1999 to enhance K-12 science, mathematics, technology, and geography education through Internet-based products derived from content on NASA's mission. These projects feature topics in Earth science, space science, and aerospace technology.
• Legacy Projects. Funded by LTP in the past are projects ranging from those emphasizing innovative public use of remote-sensing data, to those using Digital Library Technology, to those with an aeronautics focus in grades K-14.

Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (ARC)

Contact:
Mark León, NASA ARC, MS 269-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035; Phone: (650) 604-6498; Email: mleon@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Education Level:
Kindergarten-Grade 4
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
Undergraduate

Subject:
Earth System Science
Remote Sensing

Program type:
Curriculum Development/Support
Educational Technology
Informal Education
 
 

Date Added to teachearth.com:
5/1/00