enhancing oer uptake on national level: the case of greece

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Enhancing OER Uptake at National Level: the Case of Greece

Dr Sofia PapadimitriouEducational Radiotelevision, Ministry of Education, Greece

sofipapadi@gmail.com

The overall framework at Policy level Browsing the Repository Developing and Curating the Repository The Pedagogy level: Towards 21st Century skills Using and Reusing video resources in and beyond the

classroom

Agenda

The Digital School ReformThe Digital school

Digital Educational Content

Photodentro/lor

Photodentro/Video

Photodentro/ugc

Photodentro/oep

Online Management

Teachers Training

Digital Classroom

Supportive actions

“The Digital School” reform is the main vehicle for applying the potential of ICT and Open Educational Resources (OER) in Primary and Secondary Schools.

This scheme has been piloted in 800 primary schools and 1250 lower secondary schools with the aim of developing repositories with digital content and training teachers to support this educational reform in schools.

Within this reform, the Greek National Learning Object Repository Photodentro, which hosts open learning objects, has been designed and is being developed by the Computer Technology Institute of the Ministry of Education.

The Digital School Reform

The policy of EC

“Rethinking Education strategy”,

The 2020 Digital

Agenda of Europe

2020 DA: the transformational benefits of ICTs and other new technologies to enrich teaching, improve learning experiences and support personalised learning.

Rethinking Education strategy: attention should be given to OER development

Digital Educational Content http://dschool.edu.gr

Photodentro, the National Aggregator of Educational Content

Learning objects

softwareVideos

User generated

content Practices

Photodentro

Odysseas Elytis

http://photodentro.edu.gr/lor Photodentro, the Greek National Learning Object Repository

Photodentro hosts open learning objects: small, semantically and functionally autonomous, reusable, open educational resources, tagged with educational metadata.

Collection

CategoryType

Level

Browsing learning objects by Category/Type

Browsing learning objects by Collection

Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA

The learning objects must have an external structure of information to facilitate their identification, storage and retrieval: the metadata.

Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA

Photodentro Repository /Educational Video http:// photodentro.edu.gr/video

Developing the Repositories

Backend?Authoring Environment

Metadata Validation

Metadata writing

Collection Manager

Repository Manager

Megalou, El., Kaklamanis, Ch. (2013). Photodentro LOR, the Greek National Learning Object Repository. In INTED2014, the 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia

200 teachers, pedagogical and domain experts, and academic professors

around 80 engineers and technical personnel

Photodentro LOR content population process and work flow – An overview

Megalou, El., Kaklamanis, Ch. (2013). Photodentro LOR, the Greek National Learning Object Repository. In INTED2014, the 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia.

Photodentro LOR form-based metadata authoring environment

Megalou, El., Kaklamanis, Ch. (2013). Photodentro LOR, the Greek National Learning Object Repository. In INTED2014, the 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia.

Photodentro LOR Numbers of Learning Objects per subject and type

Developing the Video-Repository

Educational Radio-Television (EduTV)

An Educational Library with 700 quality video

clips, appropriately linked with the Greek national

curriculum

700 video clips

Segmenting videos

Professionally Produced Videos

EduTubePlus Pedagogical Criteria

A. Introductory activities: to engage, stimulate and motivate students (Hook/stimulus, Signpost videos)

B. Activity based clips (observational clips)

C. Affective domain clips (clips that encourage or facilitate empathy and emotional engagement on the part of the viewer) 

D. Conceptual  enablers (clips that enable the teacher to focus on learning activities around cognitive ideas such as analysis, synthesis, extrapolation and interpretation)

E. Visual and spatial clips (clips that provide clear visual images and representations)

Curating the Repositories

Collections

PP library

Extend the ROER with User-Generated Video (UGV)

User Generated Videos

The Energy bits project – PP, UGV

Sharing Resources and Experiences

Digital Content

Digital Content based Learning

The context in which OER are used is also part of the challenge - they need explicit pedagogical

guidelines andintegration in learning scenarios/practices.

OER have the potential to provide personalized, interactive and

student-centric services.

Teachers have the opportunity to use OER to create meaningful,

collaborative environments, situated in real life, fostering 21st Century

skills.

User

GeneratedProfessionally

Produced

Translation of metadata

Authoring in local languages

Using OER to develop scenarios or practices

Local

Repositories

MERLOT

PHET

Colorado

Thank you!@sofipapadi