Scottish visitors, Copenhagen, Nov. 25 - 2009

Claus Berg, Chief Consultant, UNI•C

Slides: slideshare.com/clausberg

UNI•C in briefEMU.dk – Denmark’s Education

Portal

UNI•C in Brief

• UNI•C is a national agency affiliated to the Danish Ministry of Education

• UNI•C has approx. 300 employees and has offices in Copenhagen, Lyngby and Aarhus

• In 2008, UNI•C’s turnover was DKK 340 mill. (65 mio. US $)

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Objective and Goals

UNI•C contributes to enabling Denmark, as a leading knowledge society, to provide a well-functioning education and research sector which utilizes new technology in an optimum way, and to:

•Ensure the development of adaptable and financially sound IT services within the domain of the Ministry of Education, as well as to provide high-quality and secure IT services for the Danish education and research sector,

•Supply Student Information Systems and ERP-systems to a range of educational institutions.

•Solve statistical tasks for the Ministry of Education.

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Services to educational sector

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Centralresources

Infrastructure

Lifelong Learning

School systemsSchool

development

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Infrastructure

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• Network access

• Security solutions

• Traffic management

• Support

• Authentication and Authorization

• Federations

• User administration

• Streaming servers

• Etc.

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Central ressources

• Educational Portal – EMU.DK

• Skoda – Content provision in a box

• SkoleKom – School Community

• Materialeplatformen – national DLR repository

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School systems

• Knowledge management (intranet)

• Targetted different school levels

• School needs are starting points

• Different systems for

• Daycare

• Primary schools (SkoleIntra)

• Vocational schools (ITsLearning)

• Universities (ITsLearning)

• ERP systems

• SIS systems

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Lifelong Learning

• Competence development

• Teachers

• Pupils

• Headmasters

• Blended Learning

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School Development

• Networking projects

• National and international

• Conferences

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Credo

The realization of IT visions, including the development of adequate and useful tools for educational institutions, requires a high level of technological expertise as well as the ability to comprehend pedagogical, administrative and professional problem areas.

UNI•C provides a nation-wide contribution to all Danish educational institutions.

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EMU.dk – Denmark’s Education Portal

UNI•C’s educational websitesUNI•C provides the educational sector with a number of on-line educational

services.

The websites contain information about our educational products, and teachers and students can exchange views and expertise and also find links, news and inspiration for their daily work.

• Among our educational websites and services are:• EMU – Denmark’s Education Portal• SkoleKom – Mail and conferencing system *• SkoDa – Database service for schools in Denmark *• eTwinning – School partnerships in Europe. International collaboration • Materialeplatformen – National repository of Danish learning resources• Infoguide – links for learning resources• E-museum – museum resources online• SkoleIntra – An Intranet solution *

* = service on market terms

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EMU.dk - History

Developed in collaboration with and co-financed by the Danish Ministry of Education

• 1999: First version• 2002: Portal of universes, CMS

and external editors• 2003: Model for cooperation,

100.000 unique users per week• 2008/09: 200.000 unique users

per week

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• EMU – Danish Educational Portal

EMU

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ContentCo-

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Platform

Dialogue

Tools

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EMU: Content

• Subject-related themes

• Educational sequences

• Good examples and stories

• Surveys

• Links

• News

• Tools

• Dialogue and exchange of experiences

• Events and competitions

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The national repository of Danish learning resources• Materialeplatformen

• 20.000 learning resources of all types (books – digital media – museum exhibits etc.)

• from professional publishers to teachers• “Inspiration” – from teacher to teacher

• E-Museum (184 museums, scientre centres, etc.)

Other Repositories• Fagenes Infoguide

• 10.000 links to websites for education• categorized by type of school and subject• evaluated by experienced teachers

- The EdReNe – Educational Repositories Network (Trans-European)

UNI•C’s repositories of learning resources

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Gymnasiale uddannelser – EMU

Gymnasium = General Upper Secondary school

EMU and General Upper Secondary education

On EMU you’ll find:

• Subject based pages, made in collaboration with the Regional Resource Centres (CFU)

• Inspiration and educational sequences / lesson plans

• Overview of professional development, and development projects

• Events

• Discussion fora about curriculum development.

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Subjects at General Upper Secondary level

• Fagsider til stx og hf• Fagredaktører med ansvar for det enkelte fag • Fagsider til hhx og htx (nyt)!

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Enter: emu.dk/gym

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Three examples of current themes on EMU

• Curriculum development (debate)http://www.emu.dk/gym/reform/debat.html

• Study competencieshttp://www.emu.dk/gym/tvaers/fag/stprojekt/index.html

• ”Study focus project” (individual student studies)http://www.emu.dk/gym/tvaers/fag/stprojekt/index.html

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The home area for your students!http://emu.dk/gymelev/

• Subjects in focus (i.e. Themes on motivation, study competencies)

• Practical issues (study jobs, competitions, etc.)

• Useful things (examination, study workshops, help for written assessments, etc.)

• Guide (printed and pdf)

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”Det faglige i det daglige” = Subject focus in the daily work

New inspirational guide for teachers on what they can find on EMU, for planning, cross curricular collaboration, ICT integration and much more.

Printed guides can be requested by the schools (and as pdf)

More:http://www.emu.dk/gym/guidegym.html

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EMU is inviting for collaboration

Different approaches to collaboration between EMU and external partners.

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Web Ethics on EMU

All about web ethics – perfect for teaching internet safety, media competencies etc.

http://www.emu.dk/webetik/

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Fagenes Infoguide= Subject InfoGuide

Fagenes Infoguide

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Why use the Infoguide?

• Save time on the net

• We found the best links

• And removed the rest

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10 good links on ”finance crisis” – Google has 478.000

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Materialeplatformen

Find and share education resources

Resources: Text books, software, databases etc., ...From publishers, associations, museums, private companies…

Teacher to teacher: Sequences / lesson plans, experiments, work sheets, …

- several thousand materials for upper secondary education

materialeplatform.emu.dk

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E-museum

E-museum.dk

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Web 2.0 – blogs - mobile techologies– handheld learning - etc.

Links / examples

• Web 2.0 theme: http://www.emu.dk/tema/web2/index.html

• Web 2.0 Café (blog): http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/web2/

• EMUs diary (blog): http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/emudagbog/

• English blog: http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/gymen/

• “Computer games”, a blog theme: http://weblog.emu.dk/roller/enis/category/Computerspil

Climate Change education

• Teachers’ COP15 and Nordic Climate Day… (presented by my colleague Anders Raun: http://www.teacherscop15.dk/ )

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