current directions in educational repositories, vanasche
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Repositories
Frans Van AsscheEuropean Schoolnet
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LRE Federation
• Ministries of education– Austria– Czech Republic– Estonia– Finland– Flanders (Belgium)– France– Hungary– Iceland– Israel– Ireland– Italy– Lithuania– Norway– Poland– Portugal– Region of Catalonia– Slovenia– Spain– Sweden
• Publishers– FWU– Cambridge-Hitachi– Cambridge University Press– Skolavefurinn– Young Digital Planet– Dunlem e-Learning
• Others– The European Schoolnet– ARIADNE Foundation– KULeuven– OERcommons– Contento– Promethean– Cité des Sciences– Open University (UK)– Siveco
+ Interested to become Associate Partners
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Experience with educational repositories
• Responsibilities– 2000-2008 Managing EUN Learning Resource
Exchange (LRE)• First federated search into heterogeneous network of LO
reporistories• LRE Application profile V1-V3• LRE portal launched in 2008
• Metadata & Repositories– 1974 Semantic Interoperability, controlled
vocabularies and thesauri– 1979 First paper on metadata repositories– 1996 Web for Schools. Educational resource
repository
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Experience with educational repositories
• Learning Technology Standards– Main editor of
• Controlled Vocabularies for Learning Object Metadata
• Harmonisation of vocabularies– Coeditor
• Simple Query Interface• Curriculum Exchange Format
– Past Vice-chair CEN/ISSS WSLT– Past member of the board of directors of the
European IMS Network
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What went wrong• In 2001 believing that commercal publishers
were ready to engage in a federation of repositories
• In 2008 School teachers rejected the federated search– Unstable result sets– Unstable order– Speed– Is this a general rejection ?
• Many errors when end users apply CreativeCommons
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Unexpected positive
• Adoption of the LRE application profile of the LOM including the LRE thesaurus
• Willingness of the community to contribute– Tags– Translations of resources and metadata– Improvements to metadata
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LRE public portalhttp://lreforschools.eun.org
• LRE public portal officially launched Dec 2008
• Over 130,000 resources/assets in May 2009 from 25 providers
• Open free. Mostly Creative Commons
• Being promoted initially to 60,000 eTwinningschools
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Features LRE portal
• Search by language, subject, age range• Browse by subject• Filter results by learning resource type, …• Sort by popularity, rating• Discover learning resources by tags• Add to Favourites• Provide Ratings, Annotations, Tags• See other persons’ favourites• Share favourites with other users
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LRE portal Features
• Multilinguality– 24 languages– Multilinguality & social tagging– Automatic translation of metadata
• Integrating LRE functionality in other EUN projects. E.g. eTwinning through a widget
• About 20-25 users (mostly teachers) registering every day
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Introducing an international educational resource repository
• National reflexes vs. European attitude• Impatience• Travel well - Learning object quality• National curriculum• Discipline/theme oriented social tag clouds• Searching process• Interest of teachers evolves• Object vs. idea/tool• Lesson plans• Virtual vs. face-to-face contact
- Virtual international collaboration is still an issue• License issue; CC extremely useful
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Different Levels of Interoperability
Technical Semantic
Political
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Create
DiscoverySearch
Soc. Recommend.Agent based
Integrate
EvaluateChoose
GetReference
or LOAdapt & ReuseDisaggregate
Aggregate
Modify the contentModify the sequence
Use/PlayIntegrate
LocalDelete
Retract
Expose
Describe Resolution
A typical usage scenarioFind the weakest link
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lreforschools.eun.org (teachers)lre.eun.org (repository owners)
info.melt-project.eu (see final report)