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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.

PBS DLL BETA Testing

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 a defined repository of digital media learning assets that meet state core curriculum standards and can be integrated into classroom lessons, or used as supplemental resources to augment existing lessons independently.

Digital Media Learning Assets Available to Participating Schools

• 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.

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

Over 20 member stations have been participating in the PBS Digital Learning Library pilot as content contributors and/or as pilot testing stations and planning on launching digital education services within their state. 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 when the final PBS DLL version is launched during the 2011 school year.

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

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.