@article {RN48,
	title = {Education and Public Engagement in OOI Lessons Learned from the Field},
	journal = {Oceanography},
	volume = {31},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {138-146},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {The Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) was designed to advance understanding of complex oceanographic processes by acquiring large quantities of data at six key locations in the world ocean. The OOI Education and Public Engagement (EPE) Implementing Organization has built an educational cyberinfrastructure and developed interactive tools targeted for undergraduate-level learners that enable easy access to OOI data, images, and video. To develop the suite of OOI education tools, EPE used an iterative design process, including needs assessment, tool prototyping, and usability testing in undergraduate classrooms. Data visualization and concept mapping tools were envisioned as a way to help undergraduates link concepts students see in oceanography textbooks to real-world phenomena. A Data Investigation Builder (DIB) was constructed to assist professors in designing data activities. During the usability testing, professors provided valuable feedback that allowed EPE to improve the tools. Based on the lessons learned from EPE, in 2016 we developed a new prototype set of Data Explorations that were more modular and easier to integrate into an undergraduate lecture or problem set. This paper reviews how the EPE toolset was developed, including establishment of requirements for the tools and incorporation of lessons learned from the user needs assessment and the results of usability testing of prototype tools.},
	issn = {1042-8275},
	doi = {10.5670/oceanog.2018.122},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://WOS:000427367300022},
	author = {McDonnell, J. and deCharon, A. and Lichtenwalner, C. S. and Hunter-Thomson, K. and Halversen, C. and Schofield, O. and Glenn, S. and Ferraro, C. and Lauter, C. and Hewlett, J.}
}
@article {RN53,
	title = {Characterizing Complex Marine Systems and Technology Using Visualized Vocabularies},
	journal = {Marine Technology Society Journal},
	volume = {49},
	number = {4},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {53-63},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {The next decade will usher in significant changes in ocean observational infrastructure and how students engage with marine sciences content. Faced with the challenge of helping undergraduate students make sense of very complicated marine systems, a computer sciences-based organizational structure (i.e., ontology) has been employed to characterize the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Five interlinked vocabularies that include terms, descriptions, and images define the overall system from high-level science themes to specialized data products. Given the importance of visual representations in learning, particularly for novices, an associated interactive tool called the {\textquotedblleft}Vocabulary Navigator{\textquotedblright} has been developed. Created in tandem, the design of the vocabularies and their visualizer is based on principles related to the needs of the target audience such as placing information in a broader context and promoting self-directed discovery. Overall, this effort has resulted in not only innovative online resources for learning about the OOI but also, perhaps more importantly, valuable {\textquotedblleft}lessons learned{\textquotedblright} and transferable software that could be used by other marine technology endeavors.
},
	keywords = {marine technology, ocean observing, ontology, vocabulary},
	issn = {0025-3324},
	doi = {10.4031/Mtsj.49.4.2},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://WOS:000361344000010},
	author = {deCharon, A. and Smith, L. M. and Companion, C.}
}
