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European Schoolnet and Projects on Learning Resources
Seminar on Digital Educational Resources Quality Digital Educational Resources for Schools
Hotel Olissipo Oriente, Parque das Nações, Lisbon13 December 2008
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What is EUN
Dedicated to
Support schools in bringing about the best use
of technology in learning
Promote the Europeandimension in schools
and education
Improve and raise the quality of education
in Europe
Network of 31 Ministriesof Education in Europe
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Stakeholders
Ministries of Education
IT Industry and Suppliers
European Commission
Schools
Experts
Target groups
Policy makers
Researchers Developers
School Leaders
Teachers, Pupils
European Schoolnet
Aims, audience & approach
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School services:
To answer three key aims of EUN ICT in teaching and learning
European dimension in education
Develop new skills
School networking: eTwinning, Spring Day in Europe
Maths Science and Technology Portals on materials (xperimania.eun.org), sciences (xplora.org), energy
(futurenergia.org)
Highlight best practice eLearning Awards (eContent), Development Youth Prize (school
competition)
Services and Portals
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Approximately 40,000 learning resources and over 100,000 learning assets via a beta version of the LRE
EUN and Learning Resources
Learning Resource Exchange and Interoperability:
Sharing digital resources in Europe Identify resources that can travel well (across cultures and
languages) Several projects to achieve interoperability of systems and
description of LOs:
Learning Resource Exchange
Calibrate
MELT
Inspire
ASPECT
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Calibrate
Calibrate (CALIBRATING eLearning in Schools).
Purpose: allow teachers to carry out searches across a federation of learning repositories supported by six Ministries of Education (Austria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia), develop and implement an open source collaborative ‘learning toolbox’ for schools and carry out research into new ways to improve the semantic interoperability of learning resource descriptions. In short, CALIBRATE is a multi-level project that will add value to the services provided by national educational content portals and improve the ability of schools to easily locate, access and use a wider and more diverse collection of learning resources at a European level.
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CalibrateA collaborative way of exchanging learning resources
The key aim in CALIBRATE was to support the collaborative use and exchange of learning resources in schools.
In particular, the project:• allowed teachers to perform ‘federated searches’ for learning resources in a network of linked content repositories.• provided schools with an open source ‘learning toolbox’ - an environment that allows teachers and pupils to perform collaborative learning activities using both content developed by the schools themselves and resources found using the CALIBRATE system.• carried out research and tested new approaches that could improve semantic interoperability related to the discovery and evaluation of learning resources.• validated the CALIBRATE system and web portal in up to 100 schools.
The main research objectives were to:
• explore how we relate the subject of a learning resource to a particular national curriculum and attempt to associate national curricula through knowledge representation techniques.• develop a flexible, second-generation ‘brokerage system’ architecture that can be easily adopted by owners of learning content repositories. The CALIBRATE system will offer a set of services (e.g. federated searches, learning resource exchanges, digital rights management) that can be arbitrarily combined by each repository in the federation depending on its specific needs.• develop a new open source toolbox for collaborative learning that will offer a rich feature set developed in concert with practicing teachers.
The key aim in the project was to bring these research strands together.
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MELT
MELT (Metadata Ecology for Learning and Teaching).
Purpose: Across Europe, MoE and other providers of educational content are offering extensive catalogues and large repositories of online learning resources to schools. However, as the number of resources in these repositories continues to grow, educational budgets are struggling to cope with the increasing demand for better quality metadata that will enable teachers and learners to quickly and easily find the specific learning materials they need.
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MELT
The MELT ApproachUsing the existing technical architecture or ‘brokerage system’, developed in the earlier CELEBRATE project, a network of content repositories will be established so that teachers and learners can easily carry out ‘federated searches’ of the MELT content.
MELT included three different approaches to creating new and better metadata: * Some MELT content was enriched with metadata by expert or trained indexers * Teachers provided with ‘folksonomy’ and ‘social tagging’ tools added their own metadata to MELT content they have used ‘
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INSPIRE
Inspire (Innovative Science Pedagogy in Research and Education).
Purpose: challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies and more widely to extend the supply of scientific specialists and to develop a scientific culture in European countries.
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INSPIRE
During 10 months Inspire will gather data to:
• Observe the impact of these new teaching methods on pupils and on their motivation.
• Analyse the pre-requisites to be defined for enabling teachers to integrate these new techniques in their pedagogy.
• Identify the critical success factors to be mastered at teacher and school level for the generalization of such practices.
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ASPECT
Aspect (Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content).
Purpose: Technology providers and standards’ experts in the project work with content providers to develop best practice approaches to implementing standards for both educational content discovery and use. Content providers apply these best practice approaches to a critical mass of resources in the expanded LRE. These resources are then validated with up to 40 schools in four countries in order to determine how the implementation of standards and specifications in the project leads to greater usability of LRE content. Based on this practical implementation of standards, which will be independently evaluated, ASPECT partners will feed the project’s experience into pre-standardisation activities and run an extensive set of dissemination actions. The aim is to develop a unique co-operation framework for all stakeholders who will also benefit from a set of new support services that include: a LOR registry; Vocabulary Bank for Education; Application Profile registry; automatic translation service for LOM and content packaging formats; compliance testing; transformer services; and access to known interoperability issues.
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ASPECT
As a result of its work, the ASPECT project will have a strategic impact on pre-standardisation activities and the ability of partners to submit and support proposals to European and international standardisation bodies. Together with the CALIBRATE and MELT projects, ASPECT will also help European Schoolnet and its supporting 31 MoE and partners to implement its strategic development plan for the LRE and provide standards’ based, high quality learning resources both to schools in Europe and globally.
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INSPIRE
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During 10 months Inspire will gather data to:• Observe ???
• Analyse ???
• Identify ???
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Students find Science
classes boring and / or difficult
+ Learning objects
Students more
interested in Science
=
INSPIRE
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Students find Science
classes boring and / or difficult
+ Learning objects
Students more
interested in Science
=?
INSPIRE
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EUN and Learning Resources
Learning Resource Exchange
Calibrate
MELT
Inspire
ASPECT
Dec 2007 – Dec 2009
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LRE for schools
open educational resources and assets from many different countries and providers, including 16 Ministries of Education
Many ~ 140 000 resources + assets
http://lreforschools.eun.org
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Learning Objects? Subjects?
Ages? Types?
Formats? Same in all countries?
INSPIRE
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GermanyAustria LithuaniaItaly
Spain
5 5 37 20 10
Schools
INSPIRE – the team
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inspire.eun.org
ca.inspire.eun.org es.inspire.eun.org
de.inspire.eun.org
it.inspire.eun.org
lt.inspire.eun.org
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How to u
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INSPIRE - infrastructure
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Obrigada!
More information?
Àgueda Gras-Velázquez, [email protected]
Useful sites:www.eun.org – www.europeanschoolnet.org
www.dyp2007.org – myeurope.eun.org – www.springday2008.net – eminent.eun.org – insight.eun.org – insafe.eun.org
inspire.eun.org – www.etwinning.net – stella-science.eu – www.saferinternet.org – lre.eun.org – www.xplora.org –
www.xperimania.net – www.futurenergia.org
elearningawards.eun.org – aspect.eun.org
http://lreforschools.eun.org