panos m educator_okfn_mei2012

Panos Bamidis Assist. Prof.

Medical Education Informatics

Medical School

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Greece

Open Educational Data: the case of the mEducator project

MEI 2012

Thessaloniki

April, 2012

co-funded by the

European Commission

eContentplus programme

http://www.meducator.net

co-funded by the

European Commission


Summary

OERs

A short account on OERs & MedEdu

mEducator approach

How OERs are treated with mEducator

technology

Prospects

2 Medical Education Infromatics, MEI 2012, Thessaloniki, April 2012

co-funded by the

European Commission


Open Educational Resources (OERs)

3

co-funded by the

European Commission


Open movement

1980’s Open Source Software: GNU General Public License

(GPL) was designed not only to ensure that the software

produced by GNU will remain free, but to promote the

production of more and more free software

focuses on communicating authorized use

Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has the aim to

respond to the needs of educators and students for open,

adaptable resources and emphasizes the transformative

possibilities of digitally created and distributed resources

4

co-funded by the

European Commission


Freedoms

Openness, therefore OER, should offer the following three

freedoms:

1. The freedom to study a work and apply knowledge offered from it.

2. The freedom to redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of a work.

3. The freedom to make improvements or other changes, i.e. to make

adaptations, to the content of a work, and the freedom to release modified

copies of it.

Give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right

to be properly acknowledged and cited.

5

co-funded by the

European Commission



co-funded by the

European Commission


7

Medical Education: facts & challenges

Medical education is based on a broad range of learning content, which,

nowadays, in its most part, is also available and distributed digitally

Medical professionals need to update their knowledge and skills regularly in order to

confront the increased needs in treatment and research

Continuing medical education (CME) tends to be considered compulsory in most

countries

Facts

• medical and biomedical information & knowledge (basic & core) is ever expanding

• medical disciplines and educators become increasingly overspecialized

• Educational content is made available in individual academic institutions

Challenges

• how to provide expert knowledge in remote institutions

• how to provide more audience to overspecialized educators located at remote institutions

• how to communicate and exchange (not only knowledge but also) expertise in skills and competences

co-funded by the

European Commission


Web 2.0 (social web) advances

highlighted the importance of:

– Openness

– enabled social collaboration & improved participation

– Emergence of social networking & Social intelligence

– key new terms: “apomediation”, “disintermediation” (Eysenbach, 2008).

– One’s “fame” in the web?

Web 2.0 role in educational processes

Shifted focus from educators to educational resources

...shared by online communities of learning through various

open educational repositories.


co-funded by the

European Commission


Web2.0 notions in mEdcuator platforms


co-funded by the

European Commission


Web3.0 (semantic web)

emphasis on the notion of linked data

publishing of structured data so that it can be interlinked

more effectively and hopefully become more useful.

Shifted focus from serving web pages for human readers

into sharing information in a way that can be read

automatically and “understood” by machines.

Inevitably this enables data from different sources to be

connected in a better way and be queried more effectively

and efficiently.


co-funded by the

European Commission


11

What is mEducator?

A Best Practice Network (BPN) co-funded by the

– eContentplus 2008 programme of the European Commission,

Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Digital

Content & Cognitive Systems

Start Date: May 1st , 2009

Duration: 3 years

Contract Reference: ECP-2008-EDU-418006

As a BPN, it compares different solutions (2) to draw

best practice recommendations

co-funded by the

European Commission


12

mEducator Partners

1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation,

Dissemination

2 University of Cyprus CY Technology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination

3 Democritus University of Thrace GR Content provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination

4 MEDTING Medical Exchange Limited IR Content provider, Technology provider, Dissemination

5 Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert

6 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User

7 Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User

8 Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation

9 University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation

10 St George's Hospital Medical School UK Standardisation Body, Pedagogy Expert,

Technology and Content Provider

11 Succubus Interactive FR

Content and Technology Provider

12 The Open University UK

Technology Provider

13 Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider

14 European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation

co-funded by the

European Commission


13

mEducator central idea

discover, retrieve, use, rate, re-use and re-purpose educational content irrespective of any Learning Management System use

providers and users of such content may be

– expert instructors (academics / health professionals)

– students / learners

co-funded by the

European Commission


14

Ultimate goal…

provide mechanisms for content publishing, discovery, & retrieval

analyze policies and mechanisms for content evaluation, rating,

renewal and repurposing

elaborate on intellectual property rights for educational material

test the impact of true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment,

and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date

learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula

provide recommendations on how to implement interoperable

educational content discovery and retrieval networks

co-funded by the

European Commission


15

mEducator “content”

refers to any type of educational material with a registered history of creation and evolution

Is linked with – specific educational goals and objectives

– learning outcomes

– educational contexts/settings

comes recommended with – certain types of teaching methods & strategies

– and/or assessment

co-funded by the

European Commission


Pers

on

al B

log

s

Class Discussion Forums

eTrace – Graphics annotation based lessons

16

co-funded by the

European Commission


17

The mEducator resource schema

Emphasis on repurposing histories…

Describing Repurposing histories...

Metadata schema extensions

18

Conceptual Model - Overview

MedBiquitous Annual

Conference 2011

1

9

Conceptual Model - In detail

MedBiquitous Annual

Conference 2011 20

RDF Model

21

sameAS

MESH

Term

SNOMED Term

Member Of

OxfordUniversity

was founded Is located

Cardiology

keywords

Medical

Resource John creator title

educationalObjective

s

Additional capabilities of the model

static user-edited or automatically generated

metadata fields

the emerging, dynamic information clouds that

surround a learning resource when users

comment on it, tag it etc, i.e. by a combined use

of strict taxonomies/controlled vocabularies with

folksonomies.

Enrichment: maps profile fields to existing Linked

Open Data vocabularies and ontologies 22

co-funded by the

European Commission


Some interconnected mEducator3.0 platforms


co-funded by the

European Commission


Google-Mapping histories of a resource

24

Konstantinidis et al, Geotagged Repurposed Educational Content through mEducator Social Network to Enhance

Biomedical Engineering Education”, In Proceedings of 12th MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL AND

BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING, MEDICON 2010, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

co-funded by the

European Commission


Conclusions

The current mEducator consortium will be

transformed into the mEducator partnership

when the current research funding expires at

the end of May 2012.

The mEducator partnership will be created to

promote the sustainability of mEducator

outcomes.

Numerous synergies with OKFN...


co-funded by the

European Commission


26

Associate Partnership Application

Register and join the mEducator community

http://www.meducator.net

panos m educator_okfn_mei2012

Health & Medicine

medical education cme

competences medical

medical professionals

medical disciplines

educational processes

expert knowledge

social web advances

web pages