User generated content in the LRE - illustrated by a session on LeMill

User generated content in the LRE — illustrated by a session

on LeMill

Hans PõldojaTallinn University

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http://lemill.net

What is LeMill?

• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources

• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE

• Learning Mill

Designed for teachers

• Scenarios

• Design sessions

• User stories

• Prototypes

Design session results

• Teachers are looking for something else than raw text material

• Learning resources can be divided to content, activities and tools

Learning resources

Web page

Presentation

PILOT

Exercise

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677Web pages

Other4%

Lithuanian3%Swedish

3%Hungarian5%

No language specified9%

Georgian10%

Czech15%

English16%

Estonian34%

Estonian English CzechGeorgian No language specified HungarianSwedish Lithuanian Other

Progressive inquiry

Media pieces

References

Simple licensing scheme

• All resources created in LeMill are published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license

• Media pieces can be also under:

- Creative Commons Attribution license

- GNU Free Documentation License

- Public Domain

• References to external content under any license

Reusing open content

2 500 000media files

6 900 000BY

4 900 000BY-SAphotos

5000content modules

More than content

• Methods

• Tools

• Collections

• Teaching and learning stories

LeMill as a social software

• Linking people by location, skills and interests

• Groups for collaborative authoring

• Group forums

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Members

Members by country

Other countries11%

United States1%Poland

2%Austria3%

Finland5%

Lithuania6%

Czech Republic7%

Georgia8%

Hungary14%

Estonia42%

EstoniaHungaryGeorgiaCzech RepublicLithuaniaFinlandAustriaPolandUnited StatesOther countries

LeMill competition in Estonia

LeMill competition in Estonia

• Organized by Tiger Leap Foundation in November–December 2007

• 32 teachers submitted their teaching and learning stories

• Two first prizes: “Pronaunciation of r-letter” and “Media”

Future plans

Future plans

• lemill.net will continue to be a free service after the end of CALIBRATE

• The development will continue and feedback is welcome

• New features: Powerpoint import, personalized homepage

Thank You!

• [email protected]

• skype: hanspoldoja

• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/

• http://lemill.net