European Schoolnet: Collaboration and Exchange in technology enabled education

Premysl Velek

11 September 2013, Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic

1. SURVEY OF SCHOOLS: ICT IN EDUCATION

2. COLLABORATION THROUGH ICT

3. INNOVATION IN ICT-BASED EDUCATION

4. TEACHER TRAINING

TOPICS

Transforming education in Europe

Network of 29 Ministries of Education

Support schools in bringing about the best use of technology in learning

Promote the European dimension in schools and education

Raise the quality of education in Europe

www.eun.org Brussels, Belgium

SURVEY OF SCHOOLS: ICT IN EDUCATIONBenchmarking access, use and attitudes to technology

in Europe’s schools

Detailed review on ICT use in schools: Carried out in 2012 190,000 responses 27 European countries

Students use ICT most frequently during lessons when they are taught by digitally confident and supportive teachers, regardless of equipment levels.

Students use ICT for learning more outside than inside school.Around 70% of students are taught by teachers who have

learnt about ICT in their own time.Most teachers still use ICT first and foremost to prepare their

teaching and fewer use technology with students in lessonsThere are on average over 100 students per IWBLow use of digital resources: more that 50 % of students at all

grades never (almost never) use such resources

SURVEY OF SCHOOLS– MAIN FINDINGS:

Strenghtening public action – building capacity for ICT pedagogical expertise at school level - professional development opportunities for teachers

Pedagogical support for teachersProfessional collaboration among teachers

www.eun.org/observatory/surveyofschools

SURVEY OF SCHOOLS – BOTTOM LINE:

BRIEFING PAPERS

Present the findings of the Survey of Schools: ICT in Education on a specific topic

www.eun.org/observatory/surveyofschools

COLLABORATION VIA ICT - CONTENT EXCHANGE • Learning Resource Exchange (LRE): federation of

resource repositories • more than 50 different content providers• more that 200,000 OERs• over 30 languages

• Scientix repository: Resources in STEM education • 200 STEM projects• ~ 1,100 resources• Common core: inquiry based learning and the

use of ICT in education

LEARNING RESOURCE EXCHANGE

• Exchange platform for national portals• Public service for teachers/school

since 2008

http://lreforschools.eun.org

Travel well concept

1. Transnational topics2. Knowledge of specific

language not needed3. Specific software not needed4. Methodological support not

needed5. Intuitive and easy to use6. Interactivity7. Clear licence status

SCIENTIX REPOSITORYwww.scientix.eu/web/guest/resources

Content providers:STEM education projects funded by EU programmes

or by various (inter)national initiatives• 200 STEM projects carried out in the past 10 years• Over 1,100 resources

Translation on demand – user driven localisation of OERs:

• 1,071 requests• 440 of them accepted

Scientix 1 2009 - 2012

Scientix 2 – start in 2013

Reaching out to national teacher communities -

Scientix National Contact Points

INNOVATION IN ICT BASED EDUCATION Examples of Scientix projects: Go-Lab and Global Excursion:

remote control and online science labs in science education

University of Cambridge (UK): Various kinds of electronic microscopes

Doñana (Spain): Cameras, microphones, sensors for wildlife

SZTAKI (Hungary): Earthquake equipment, Digital production, ..

BIFI (Spain): Simulations, e-Equipement

Global excursionExtended Curriculum for Science Infrastructure Online

ViSH: Virtual Science Hub http://vishub.org

Global excursionExtended Curriculum for Science Infrastructure Online

• Provide access to e-Infrastructures and selected labs & resources• Create teaching use cases, pedagogical & technical artefacts

Rich media mash-up: • text, images, videos, • remote access elements: cameras, sensors,

controlers

Go-Lab Global Online Science Labs – Inquiry Learning at School19 partners, among which European Space Agency or CERN

• Access to remote and virtual labs for schools• Access to research data and archives• Structured learning environment based on

inquiry• Focus on pedagogical framework – IBSE• Integration into school curricula

www.go-lab-project.eu

COLLABORATION VIA ICT - COMMUNITY FOR SCHOOLS

eTwinning, www.etwinning.net

• 208,210 Teachers • 107,132 Schools • 5,752 active projects

TRAINING IN ICT

fully equipped, reconfigurable, teaching and learning space

Showcase of emerging and new technologies supporting education

TRAINING IN ICT

Courses in the Future Classroom Lab iTEC courses eTwinning CPD courses inGenious and Scientix workshops

Topics : Use of Interactive Whiteboard Esafety in teaching and learning Future Classroom Scenarios STEM in the future classroom Creative use of multimedia

http://fcl.eun.org

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Thank you for your attention!

Info: premysl.velek@eun.org

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