TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources

across Europe

Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR, Italy

TenCompetence workshopSofia, Oct. 29-30th, 2008

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

Teacher Education (TE) includes various…

• Actors: teacher & trainer educators, practising & trainee teachers, publishers, content & service providers…

• Phases: Initital Teacher Education (ITE) & Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

• Learning processes: formal & non-formal, guided & self-directed

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

Pressing TE needs across Europe

• Ready access to reusable, user-validated digital resources

• Richer offering of TE-specific digital content (OER & commercial)

• Sense of community stretching beyond immediate locus; community engagement

• Broad European perspective – sharing experiences, practices & approaches

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

cultural differences

TE gateway

TE networks

TE resources & expertise

commercial & OER potential

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

Gateway to federated TE-specific resources- Metadata aggregation & harvesting (no LMS)- TE metadata model (pan-European & specific levels)

Personalized services: adaptive interface & query

A starting core of user-validated TE content

Promotion of European TE content marketplace

TE community support tools: feedback, ranking, experiential annotation, social networking, enriching metadata aggregation

Proposedresponse

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

Existing services,programs & models

LearningResourceExchange

VICE

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

TE ONTOLOGY- rationale

• Fostering shared understanding and communication among humans – a mappable set of TE-relevant concepts– non-ambiguous vocabulary

• Enabling adaptive user interface and reasoning-based query services

• Guiding design and system specification of tools and services

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

• Facilitating resource retrieval– Inferential search engine– Flexible representation of user profiles– Ranking solutions

• Providing linguistic & cultural interoperability– Bridging different national systems

TE ONTOLOGY- rationale

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

TE ONTOLOGY - main branches

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

TE ONTOLOGY - Multilayer

structureCommon level (culturally-independent)

Specific levels (culturally-dependent)

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual

approach

• Metadata Models: common + language- context specific

• Own working language• Familiar references to other educational

contexts/systems• suitable TE terminology & metadata

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual

approach

• Cultural connotation of TE models– Mapping different ‘local’ conditions

• Use peer recommendations

• Enrich resource with notation of user experience

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

Integrated model

Top down

Bottomup

TE ONTOLOGY

Folksonomies, experiential annotations

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR

TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR