Authoring, Sharing and Annotating Digital Learning Resources on

Inquiry-Based Science Education

Mart Laanpere, Tallinn University, Estonia

Science -Teacher Education Advanced Methods

May 2009 – April 201215 countries26 institutions100 + people109 things to dowww.ntnu.no/s-team

Aims of S-TEAM

• Disseminate inquiry based science teaching methods on a large scale across Europe

• Create new models of teacher professional development

• Provide science teachers with opportunities to talk about/improve their practice

What is new?

• Pupils’ scientific thinking needs to be recognised –tools in development

• Pupil questions should drive their science investigations/inquiries

• Teachers need [more] time to do inquiry• Teachers need [more] time to talk about

teaching practice• Pedagogy should be integrated with

assessment and curriculum

Some S-TEAM ingredients

• Argumentation• Dialogic teaching• Scientific literacy • Motivation• Video resources for teacher development• Crossover between different specialisms

Digital resources created by S-team

• Videos: 6 DVDs, 2 sets of online video clips• Books: 1 printed, 1 online, 1 in both formats• Workbooks: 3 (PDF or DOC)• Training packages: 10 (PPT, DOC, SCORM)• Simulations: 3 (PPT, FLV)• Other: 13 questionnaires, lesson plans,

presentations (DOC, PPT, )

S-team production workflow

• Authoring: selecting the right tool and output format, choosing the license

• Storing: S-team Wiki, local servers, Scientix• Promoting: metadata to Scientix portal and to

national portals, RSS, recommenders, SIR, MOL• Adapting: localisation, adding to collections,

new versions (NB! CC-BY-SA)• Re-using: online learning environments

Open issues

• Privacy and copyright issues restrict the use of Creative Commons licenses

• Scientix metadata form is “too heavy” for authors – support is needed

• MOL-AD support is needed from Scientix• How to reach the teacher educators? Web 2.0

(RSS, Widgets, recommenders) does not work• LeMill.net would solve many problems, but

authors prefer DOC, PPT

Thanks for listening!

• www.ntnu.no/s-team• Mart.Laanpere@tlu.ee