Astronomy Education Resource Gateway Design Based on the Virtual Observatory

Beginning with the importance and current status of astronomy education, the paper sets forth the necessity and feasibility of building an astronomy education resource gateway based on the Virtual Observatory. Using technologies about metadata in the Virtual Observatory, a reasonable mechanism for building the gateway is discussed, including resource registry and discovery, metadata record creating, metadata database managing, resources querying, etc. Furthermore, an example is introduced on how to run and manage the gateway.Finally, the future of VO based education is prospected.