European Schoolnet and Projects on Learning Resources

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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, Lisbon
• 13 December 2008

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• What is EUN

Network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe
Dedicated to
Support schools in bringing about the best use
of technology in learning
Promote the European dimension in schools and
education
Improve and raise the quality of education in
Europe
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Aims, audience approach
Ministries of Education
Teachers, Pupils
IT Industry and Suppliers
School Leaders
European Schoolnet
European Commission
Policy makers
Schools
Researchers Developers
Experts
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Services and Portals

• 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)

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AGV lt--gt MST coordinator
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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

• Approximately 40,000 learning resources and over
  100,000 learning assets via a beta version of the
  LRE

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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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Calibrate

• A 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 Approach Using 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 projects 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

• Inspire ???
• Purpose ???
• During 10 months Inspire will gather data to
• Observe ???
• Analyse ???
• Identify ???

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INSPIRE

• Students find Science classes boring and / or
  difficult

Students more interested in Science


Learning objects
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INSPIRE

• Students find Science classes boring and / or
  difficult

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Students more interested in Science


Learning objects
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EUN and Learning Resources
Inspire
Calibrate
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MELT
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LRE for schools
http//lreforschools.eun.org

• open educational resources and assets from many
  different countries and providers, including 16
  Ministries of Education
• Many 140 000 resources assets

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INSPIRE

• Learning Objects?
• Subjects?
• Ages?
• Types?
• Formats?
• Same in all countries?

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INSPIRE the team
Schools
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INSPIRE - infrastructure
forms
How to use the LOs
list of LOs
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INSPIRE - forms
Before
After
LO 1
LO 2
LO N
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INSPIRE - LOs
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INSPIRE LO info page
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INSPIRE - LO
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INSPIRE - LO
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INSPIRE results

• Summer 2009
• Inspire Summer Academy

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Obrigada!

• More information?

• Àgueda Gras-Velázquez, agueda.gras_at_eun.org
• Useful siteswww.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