The PBS Digital Learning Library (DLL) is a digital media repository of public media content that houses and distributes a comprehensive range of learning objects designed specifically for classroom use and delivered to teachers nationwide exclusively through local PBS stations.

The PBS Digital Learning Library (PBS DLL) is a repository of tagged and searchable videos, images, interactives, audios, and documents, correlated to the national and state's standards. Teachers within districts and individual schools participating in the Beta testing have free access to the repository throughout the testing phase. This repository's content will be fully operational and available to all Rhode Island schools next school year through the Rhode Island PBS Digital Learning Gate Project and supported by Rhode Island PBS Educational Digital Learning Services.

Rhode Island PBS Digital Learning Gateway - DLL BETA Testing

Log in to Rhode Island PBS Beta Testing Pilot: http://ripbs.pbsdll.org/

WSBE Rhode Island PBS, as a PBS station partner participating in the BETA testing phase of the PBS DLL, offers training and guidance to teachers within participating schools in Rhode Island.

Teachers from participating schools receive free access to this defined repository of digital media learning assets that meet national and state core curriculum standards Assets available can be integrated into classroom lessons or used as supplemental resources to augment existing lessons independently.

Digital Media Learning Assets Available to Participating Schools Include

• Educational videos edited into short segments or chapters making them more classroom-friendly and meeting the needs of teachers and students in a 21st-century learning environment
• A library of images
• Audio files, documents, educational games, interactives, lesson plans, quizzes, etc.

Participants in the Beta testing phase evaluate the repository providing ongoing feedback on the user interface and navigability of the site, features, availability of tools, and content-assets.

Local user data and teacher feedback collected during the BETA test phase will be combined with national data and incorporated into the final release of the PBS DLL in 2011. Once the national testing is complete, broad access to the PBS DLL will be granted to Rhode Island schools exclusively through WSBE Rhode Island PBS and schools nationwide through local public television stations.

Over 20 member stations have been participating in the PBS Digital Learning Library Beta testing pilot as content contributors and/or as pilot testing stations and planning on launching digital education services within their states.

Stations participating in the pilot include: KAET, KET, KLRN, KNME, KQED, Louisiana Public Broadcasting, Maryland Public Television, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, SCETV, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, ThinkTV (Ohio Digital Classroom), Utah Education Network, Vegas PBS, WGBH, WHRO, WOUB, WNEO, WNET, WPSU, WVIZ, WXXI, and Wyoming PBS.

The Education Services Department of WSBE Rhode Island PBS expects to offer these Web-based DLL services to Rhode Island schools once the final PBS DLL version is release in 2011 school year.

For information about the PBS DLL BETA Testing project please contact Dr. María Velásquez de Tondreau at 401-222-3636, ext. 365.

Video Streaming Research

Research shows that supplemental instruction that incorporates digital video aligned to state standards can lead to increased student achievement. The PBS DLL aggregates a growing set of innovative learning objects to with teachers and students are able to interact, assemble, share, and modify to create truly engaging and transformative educational experiences.