Www.europeanschoolnet.org - Update on (some) EUN’s Content Projects David Massart, EUN EdReNe Meeting Chasseneuil, France - Oct. 27, 2011.

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Update on (some) EUN’s Content Projects

David Massart, EUN

EdReNe Meeting

Chasseneuil, France - Oct. 27, 2011


Outline

• Learning Resource Exchange

• eQNet

• iTEC

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Learning Resource Exchange

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LOs, Metadata, and Repositories

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Learning Resource Exchange


LRE Metadata Application Profilehttp://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/metadata

http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/metadata

http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/metadata

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Federating Content By All Means


Finding Repositories


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Adding Social Data


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Bringing Content Providers on Board


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LRE for Schools (http://lreforschools.eun.org)


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LRE Subcommittee

• LRE governing body

• Meets twice a year

• Founding members and Associate members have one vote each and elect a Chair

• Technical Advisory Board – chaired by EUN

• Decisions on operation of LRE and annual workplan decided by Founding and Associate partners

• Changes to statutes of LRE Governing Committee and LRE members ship rules require majority decision by Founding members (MoE)

• Option to terminate LRE development and maintenance


Types of LRE partners

• LRE Founding partners – MoE

• LRE Associate partners– Territorial, regional, municipal authorities– Commercial and public sector content providers– Tools’ providers

• LRE Subscription members– Smaller organizations exploring LRE added value

• LRE Affiliate partners – Do not pay a membership fee or have voting rights– e.g., PhET


For Further Information

WEB:

http://lreforschools.eun.org EMAIL:

[email protected]



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eQNet

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Recent Tasks for eQNet

• Applying TW criteria to evaluate LRE resources– Voting on TW or non-TW– Indicating which criteria apply

• Gathering feedback on criteria from a variety of teachers (expert and non-expert) using questionnaires

• Gathering feedback from eQNet teachers on their experiences with digital resources in discussion forums

• Addressing the need for clear information on copyright and IPR issues for educators

• Following Achieve, Inc. – U.S. Common Core Standards/Quality rubrics

• http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf

http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf

http://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf


eQNet Task Results from Summer 2011

• Teachers recommended TW collections

• LRE reviewed the collections

• LRE Harvested collections when possible

• TW resources recommended by teachers in LRE: http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/travelwell-all

• Resulting in high quality collections in the LRE

http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/travelwell-all

http://lreforschools.eun.org/web/guest/travelwell-all

New Collection # Type of Resources

Animovaná Fyzika, Czech Rep.

26 Animations – Physics- Everyday Machine

Arcademic Skill Builders, USA

41 Animated multi-player math games for primary and lower secondary

DNA Learning Center, USA

84 Animations on various aspects of genetics and history of genetics (in 5 languages)

Freesound, Multi-national

115,879

Sound samples with open licenses – music, animals, city sounds free to remix and share

GeoGebra, Austria 256 Algebra/Geometry applets created by teachers. Swedish, Finnish, English, etc. Many more available.


Khan Academy, USA 1921 Popular video tutorials on math and other subjects with practice sets

Learn English Kids, British Council, UK

463 Animations, worksheets, songs, for younger children learning English – instructions in 4 languages

NeoK12, USA 18 Videos, worksheets and games reviewed by teachers and organized by teaching subject – more on the way.

NLVM, USA 382 interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction. Available in 4 languages

Nobel Prize Games, Sweden 30 Interactive games on topics awarded Nobel Prizes


PhET, USA 100 Physics simulations in more than 20 languages

Physics Animations 55 Animations in 4 languages demonstrating concepts in physics.

Physics and Chemistry Videos, U. of Nottingham, UK)

288 Videos demonstrating physics and chemistry topics. Some are available with Portuguese subtitles.

School History, UK 105 Teacher created animated assessments on various aspects of history taught in school. Software to make the quiz yourself also freely available.

Wolfram, Multi-national 2972 Open-code user submitted resources using dynamic computation to illuminate complex concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, etc.

Criteria and examples of resources that Travel Well

• See PDF file

LRE Content Providers

APERTUS; 140

BMUKK; 73

DGIDC; 111

Educatio; 42

FNBE; 241

FWU; 147

INDIRE; 186

ITC; 49

RVP; 95

SKOLVERKET; 64 TLF; 103

Number of Resources Evaluated per Provider = 1251 22 eQnet Teachers

Total of 1545 Votes from Teachers on LRE Resources

Travels Well41%

Does not Travel59%

Voting Results

LRE Reporting to Providers

• Current task has generated data • Each provider evaluated will receive reports

– Total Travel Well– Which criteria

• Discussion of future plans for content quality

Number of Votes Per Criteria

Criteria 1: Trans-Na-tional Topic; 270

Criteria 2: Language Neutral; 126

Criteria 3: Software Neutral; 131

Criteria 4: Methodological Support Un-necessary; 373

Criteria 5: Intuititive and Easy to use; 227

Criteria 6: Interactive without Feedback; 51

Criteria 7: Interactive with Feedback; 87

Criteria 8: Clear License Status; 63

Number of Votes without Image Dominated Collections (INDIRE and FNBE)

Criteria 1: Trans-Na-tional Topic; 250

Criteria 2: Language Neutral; 120

Criteria 3: Software Neutral; 125Criteria 4: Methodological Support Un-

necessary; 146

Criteria 5: Intuititive and Easy to use; 214

Criteria 6: Interactive without Feedback; 40

Criteria 7: Interactive with Feedback; 61

Criteria 8: Clear License Status; 58


WEB:

http://eqnet.eun.org EMAIL:

[email protected]

http://eqnet.eun.org/

http://eqnet.eun.org/


iTEC


iTEC

• The iTEC technology approach aims at making the technical components, (people, tools, services and content) required by the scenarios, interoperable and discoverable, so that teachers can more easily select and combine relevant components tailored to the future classroom scenario of their choice

iTEC - Designing the future classroom

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Shell and Widgets

Shell: Educational software that supports learning activities by providing access to resources (e.g., application, content, device, person) mainly via widget technology

As a result of this pedagogical vision, we foresee that all resources – in one way or another – become eventually represented by widgets

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Composer and Learning Stories

Composer: Authoring tool that supports the composition of learning stories enriched by resources made available via the iTEC Application Store and the iTEC back-end Directory

Learning stories created can be re-used for semi-automatic customization of a shell to support learners in achieving their educational objectives

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WEB:

http://itec.eun.org EMAIL:

[email protected]

http://itec.eun.org/

http://itec.eun.org/


Www.europeanschoolnet.org - Update on (some) EUN’s Content Projects David Massart, EUN EdReNe Meeting Chasseneuil, France - Oct. 27, 2011.

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