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Kennisnet ICT and Education

Frans Schouwenburg Manager Primary and Secondary Education

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Organisation Kennisnet

•Ict support organisation for Dutch education

•150 fte

•Budget: 35-40 million Euro

•Funded by the Ministry of Education

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Governance

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Focus 2009-2011

• Professional development of teachers and management

• School as a flexible organisation

• Availability of digital learning materials

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Service spectrum

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Yes

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Options:-challenge the market-knowledge development-prototyping-development by Kennisnet

Public/commercial market

BrokeringSpecify and articulate questions

Inspiration & awareness

Are there existing solutions in the market

Research: Four in Balance

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Teachers using ict during lessons

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Pedagogical approaches and use of ict in PE

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Use of online learning materials

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Pupil computer-ratio

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Schools with adequate ICT facilities

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Availability of interactive whiteboards

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Priorities for support

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Evidence based

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Digital picture book increases language development

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Learning with more effectiveness: Ten experiments in secondary education(pre test – post test – control group design)

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Research question:

Can we find (at one or more schools) empirical evidence for the contribution of ict towards:

- Improvement of teachers’ productivity

- Improvement of the quality of education

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Samples of our work

Good practice - virtual worlds and education

Stimulate - thinkquest , expose your talent, make a game

- kennisnet products

Professionals - Leraar24

Summary of results (published April 2009)

With proper use of ict education becomes more

-Efficient: less teaching time for teaching more students

-Attractive: profession of teacher more attractive

-Effective: better student performance

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Learning materials

Book

Digi lesson

Excursion

Excursion

Book

Book Book Excursion

Arrangements: the teacher back in control

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Digi lesson

Digi lesson

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users

user services

connectors

sources

sources

•Creative commons?•Free of charge•Open source•Quality•A public repository?•Wikiwijs (wikipedia of learning materials)

•Collection building: museums, tv-archives, libraries, schools, publishers, co-operative collections, etc

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“connectors”

•Authorisation

•Search engine

•Technical Standards (scorm)

•Content Search Profile (metadata)

•Agreements

•Connect initiatives

•Stimulate producers

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User services

Introduce standards to producers of learning environments, platforms, etc.

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Users

Kennisnet services•Webmaker, Webquestmaker, DaVindi, Community, teacher tv, century21 skills, computer literacy, etc.

•Projects and programmes

•Profesionalise teachers

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Authentication and Authorization

•Single Sign on for all educational content in the Netherlands

•A federation of different identity providers

•Direct links with Electronic Learning Environments

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Online Collaboration

•Groups

•Open Source Lightweight environment

•Not an ELO

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Searching and Finding

•Repositories•Metadata Standards for the Netherlands•All the

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Communities

More than 180,000 members

All three sectors

All based on sharing experiences

Huge learning materials database

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Publishing tools (authoring applications)

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Scorm is a collection of specifications/standards

SCORM package (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)

Standards