current directions in educational repositories, l. poulsen

Current directions in educational repositories

Leo Højsholt-PoulsenUNI•C

The Danish IT Centre for Education and ResearchDenmark

[email protected]

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EdReNe – Educational Repositories NetworkFounding members

• UNI•C (Denmark)

• EUN – European Schoolnet (Europe)

• EENET - European Expert's Network for Education and Technology (Europe)

• Menon Network (Europe)

• EDEN - European Distance and E-Learning Network (Europe)

• FWU - Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (Germany)

• UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)

• TLF - Tiger Leap Foundation (Estonia)

• UNI-LJ-FMF, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Uni. of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

• ITC - Centre of IT in Education (Lithuania)

• Skolverket - The Swedish National Agencyfor Education (Sweden)

• ENIS Austria (Austria)

• NCTE –National Centre for Technology in Education (Ireland)

• Kennisnet – Sticting Kennisnet Ict op School (The Netherlands)

• Becta - British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK)

• CNDP - Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique (France)

• Giunti Interactive Labs (Italy)

• BFU- Brancheforeningen for undervisningsmidler (Denmark)

• AIE - Associazione Italiana Editori (Italy)

• EduLearn (Portugal)

• sDae - Sociedad Digital De Autores Y Esitores (Spain)

• IML - Umeå University Department of Interactive Media and Learning (Sweden)

Associated members

• Utdanning.no (Norway)

• Utdanningsdirektoratet (Norway)

• VETAMIX (Finland)

• Lektion.se (Sweden)

• Intrallect Ltd (UK)

• SLO - Netherland’s Institute for Curriculum Development (The Netherlands)

• CTIE - Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement (Switzerland)

• APS IT-diensten (The Netherlands)

• TLU-CET - Talinn University (Estonia)

• CTE - Centre de technologie de l'éducation (Luxembourg)

• Ontwikkelcentrum (The Netherlands)

• LTScotland, Learning and Teaching Scotland (UK)

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Education (UK)

• DGIDC –Ministry of Education (Portugal)

• ALLIANZ S.p.A. (Italy)• Teachable.net (United Kingdom)• Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia

Scolastica (former INDIRE) (Italy)• SMART Technologies (United Kingdom)

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• develops practical guidelines and recommendationson educational repositories

• will establish a lasting collegial network of European repository nodes and stakeholders.

Main outputs:• a comprehensive website (www.edrene.org) with

recommendations, documentation, templates, roadmaps and documents describing issues, state-of-the-art offering solutions

• Existing repositories can cut some corners, and new repositoriesmay have a less costly and much less complicated path in life.

EdReNe – a learning network

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A basic list of issues sets the agenda• How do you establish a repository of learning resources

together with producers and users• Everyday organisation and management of a repository• Optimising number of titles and users • Quality frameworks and criteria• Networking repositories• Functionalities and features of a repository• Pedagogical metadata and links to curriculum• Management of IPR screening and clearance • Role of repositories in the new web environment

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EdReNe reports (two of them)

• State of the Art report on educational repositoriesDecember 2008

– Looking for trends, evidence of success and impact (quantity and/or quality)– Current status of European educational repositories

• Templates for agreements and guidelinesfor repositories and content owners/providers …January 2009

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SoA - “Huge variety of repositories across Europe”

• Catalogues of descriptions (metadata, links)• Catalogues and Containers of content (metadata & data)• Networks of repositories

• Digital resources - All types of resources

• Free content – Commercial content

• For everybody – Membership based (login)

• Validated/screened (quality assurance, rights management)

• Some facilitate feedback

• Target: schools, further/higher ed., homes

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SoA – obvious trends

• Public money in one way or the other– Central or regional initiatives – to encourage teachers’ uptake of innovative materials and learning styles

(traditional textbooks are still preferred by a majority of the teachers)– But also examples of successful commercial or user driven repositories

• Digital resources– web resource (a collection of web sites) somewhere in cyberspace

• Catalogues and containers of content (metadata & data)• For everybody (no membership requested)

• Target: schools (further/higher ed. separately)

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Success indicators

– A successful repository is a platform thatmany use to find learning resources of high quality.

– Use should be regular and frequent– Quality not quantity – Expected Usage pattern

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SoA - some success stories

• Education Highway in Austria.By far the biggest educational repository, offering

– 36 subject oriented portals – over 800 thematic collections– more than 80.000 titles

• Since February 1994 online• Repository started with a database in 1996• Subject oriented repositories since 1996/1997

First subject: Chemistry

• www.schule.at adapted to this concept in 2000

• Today still the most successful portals in Austria

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Eduhi.at – Why are we successful?

• “As our editors are teachers they know what their colleagues need and try to provide this content and links on the subject oriented platforms. The teachers like that they can access relevant content and helpful links.”

• “Students like that they find relevant content for presentations and reports, because the work of filtering the content has already been done by teachers.”

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SoA - some success stories

• KlasCement in Belgium, an initiative of a non-profit organization. Maintained by five teachers funded by the government, and everything is submitted by teachers

• Lektion.se in Sweden, a private initiative founded by teachers. It is the most popular service currently with more than 190.000 users, and is a rapidly expanding base of shared lesson plans

Often user based repositories appear to impact better than traditional top-down approaches

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Very successful commercial repository

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SoA – New developments

• Users meet the repository or a collection of repositories at their local school web portal or in their own virtual learning environment

– e.g. Sweden (The Spider), The Netherlands (Edurep), Denmark (Materialeplatformen)

• Content is linked to the curriculum– e.g. in France, Ireland, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Austria, Norway and the UK (the now closed

Curriculum Online service)

• Quality assurance and rights issues play a big role– Summary of findings from the EdReNe Quality Assurance sessions

• Initiatives combine central repositories with school learning platforms– e.g. England, Scotland, Spain, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and Austrian regions

• The National Digital Resource Bank in England will provide a national repository to house content created by schools and local authorities

• Cultural heritage (educational) repositories have emerged – e.g. Denmark, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK– Europeana – cultural collections of Europe

• Broadcasting companies have established popular servicesby which schools can subscribe to TV and radio productions

– e.g. in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Ireland and the UK.

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EDUREP value chain and communitiesModel for Succes - 3 tier solution. Specialisation is the key