EMU: The Danish Educational Portal

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EMU The Danish Educational Portal
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EMU The Danish Educational Portal

• Developed in collaboration with and financed by
  the Danish Ministry of Education
• 1999 First version
• 2002 Portal of universes, CMS and external
  editors
• 2003 Model for cooperation, 100.000 unique users
  pr. week

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EMU vision

• The preferred common educational portal in
  Denmark interacting closely with the local
  intranet and LMS-systems
• Common goal-oriented content and resources for
  all school forms and target groups - supporting
  political objectives as well as the needs of the
  schools
• The preferred platform for content and service
  providers to schools in Denmark

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EMU portal
Web services
Market place
Events
Universes
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EMU Universes

• Goal-oriented content for
• Basic school
• Teachers
• 7th 10th form
• Upper secondary school
• Vocational education
• Teacher training college
• Subjects
• Educational sequences, best practice, links,
  themes, dialog, inspiration
• Interdisciplinary content
• Themes on international topics, pedagogical
  topics, courses, web ethics

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EMU Web services or themes

• UNIC web services
• SkoleKom (mail and conference system)
• Infoguide (collection of high quality links)
• SkoDa (databases, e.g. newspaper articles and
  press photos)
• Collaborators web services
• Cross-curricular themes content that are not
  directed at a specific target group

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EMU Events

• Contests supported by inspiration for use in the
  classes
• Poem contest in 2002 with 2600 poems
• Two photo contests in 2003 with 100 and 600
  photos respectively

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EMU Market place

• Providers to education and administration can
  market their products
• Two models
• Link to their own home page
• Shop on the EMU Market place (full cost payment)

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How is content provided on EMU?
UNIC Universe editors (7)

• Collaborators (30)
• County council offices
• Association of school libraries
• Educational News
• Media Council
• Danish Ministry of the Environment
• Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)

• Editors (100)
• Basic school (25)
• Upper secondary school (30)
• Teacher training college (20)
• Vocational education (10)
• Cross-curricular (15)

• Users
• Events
• Conferences
• Calendar
• Polls
• Profiles
• Interviews

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EMU Offer to collaborators model 1

• EMU kernel
• EMU design
• EMU editorial tool
• EMU modules
• Courses, guidelines, support
• Usability tests
• Traffic counts
• Close co-operation with EMU editors
• Exposure
• Profiling

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EMU Offer to collaborators model 2

• Projects organizations
• Free design
• Free editorial tool
• EMU bar and traffic count code
• EMU modules
• Space at UNIC web hotel
• URLltnamegt.emu.dk
• Close co-operation with the EMU editors
• Exposure
• Profiling

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EMU Traffic figures
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Most successful initiatives

• Goal-oriented content of high quality
• Subject editors
• Editorial tool and CMS
• Model for co-operation
• Subject pages
• Themes on topical issues
• Services SkoleKom, SkoDa and Infoguide
• Events

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Plans for 2004 Content

• New universes for pre-school - 3rd form and
  4th-6th form in basic school
• Theme on entrepreneurs in co-operation with
  Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs
• Theme on environment and nature in co-operation
  with Danish Ministry of the Environment
• New school forms, e.g. adult education
• 15 new external collaborators
• More unique content, e.g. educational sequences
  and themes
• Closer support of the political objectives

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Plans for 2004 Technical development

• Platform for educational material
• Databases for development projects and
  supplementary training
• Google for the educational world
• Implementation of webservices (integrate
  conferences from SkoleKom and links from the
  Infoguide)
• Interface to intranet and LMS
• Editorial tool

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Plans for 2004 Marketing

• 10 increase in traffic counts
• 4 events
• Presentations in schools and county council
  offices
• Collaboration with ENIS schools
• Educational Forum