ICT in Education: The Catalan Stance

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ICT in EducationThe Catalan Stance

• Francesc Busquets
• Orland Cardona
• Fina Dènia
• Ferran Ruiz

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ICT in EducationThe Catalan Stance

• INFRASTRUCTURE (NETWORK, SCHOOLS)
• CONTENT AND SERVICES
• IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING
• DISSEMINATION PROMOTION

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Infrastructure Overview of the XTEC Network
100 Mbps (Colt)
10 Mbps (BT)
... up to 2200 schools
RAS Modem
Catalan Scientific Ring 100 Mbps
Universities
Libraries
Government 10 Mbps
Research centers
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Network Structure
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Infrastructure XTEC Servers

• Sun E3500
• Web www.edu365.com
• IAS Oracle
• E-mail students

• Sun E4500
• DNS
• Web www.xtec.es
• IAS Oracle
• E-mail teachers

• Sun E10000
• Video server
• WebCT
• Oracle DB
• Other applications

40 CPU 11 TByte storage
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InfrastructureSchool Network
PC server
PC stations
XTEC
peripherals
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InfrastructureComputer-student ratio
Computers 30,306 Ratio 10.9
Computers 29,101 Ratio 8.1
9.5 students per computer in 2003 8 students
per computer in 2004
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ICT in EducationThe Catalan Stance

• CONTENT AND SERVICES

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Content Services

• Specific content, applications and services are
  essential for the present and the future of
  education
• The Department of Education
• puts all its efforts into making all content,
  resources and services available on the Internet
• Does its utmost to ensure that every teacher and
  student can access those contents and services,
  and that they have maximum facilities to
  communicate and publish their own content

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XTEC Users and Services

• 220,000 user accounts
• Main services for teachers and students
• e-mail and instant messaging (new)
• file storage
• collaborative tools and forums
• ISP remote access (teachers)
• support and help desk
• learning support for students

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XTEC Web Portals

• www.xtec.es, serving mainly
• teachers
• schools
• resource centres and other educational and
  management services
• www.edu365.com, serving mainly
• students
• families

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Some XTEC Statistics

• Statistical data (2002)
• 35 million e-mail messages
• 95 million web pages served
• 45 Gb transmitted daily
• 2,500 personal web pages of teachers
• 2,200 school resource centres web sites
• Real-time data on XTEC use publicly available

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Examples of web-based content services

• Curricular materials
• Open school
• Complete courses
• Mini didactic units for students
• Didactic units made by teachers
• Literature for children
• Digital video library
• School web sites

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Content ProvisionA Three-Way Approach

• Buy or license software content from companies
• Stimulate and assist teacher design and
  production of learning materials
• In-house design and development of content and
  applications (usually with external co-operation
  and under our own project leadership - CD4)

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Clic a Learning Tool

• Clic Authoring tool Player
• Free distribution on the Internet
• Several types of activities
• Puzzles, associations, memory games
• Text activities, scrambled letters and crosswords
• Collaborative work more than 1,000 packages
  containing 115,000 activities

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ICT in EducationThe Catalan Stance

• IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING

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In-service teacher training

• Wide-ranging and long-term IT in-service teacher
  training plan, continuously developed since 1986
• Courses developed in the schools given by
  qualified teachers
• A variety of training modalities
• Face-to-face courses
• Online courses
• Seminars
• Specific materials for every course

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In-service trainingParticipating teachers
Courses 420 580 780
917 1175 1250
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In-service trainingDistance learning courses
Teacher participation in distance learning courses
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In-service teacher trainingData on 2003-04
activities

• 1,390 courses and seminars
• 1,100 trainers and seminar conductors
• 23,500 participating teachers
• 54 different types of courses
• 9 types of seminars

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In-service teacher trainingInternet-based
management

• information on courses and seminars
• registration
• follow up of participation
• management of trainers
• certification
• course materials
• course evaluation
• student projects (distance learning courses)

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ICT in EducationThe Catalan Stance

• DISSEMINATION PROMOTION

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Dissemination promotion

• Contests of scientific websites
• Photo and video contests for schools
• School projects fairs
• Participation in public events
• International collaborative projects
• Short daily TV programme for children to promote
  good use of the Internet

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• Thank you very much
• for your attention!