Using Europeana for learning & teaching:

EMMA MOOC “Digital library in principle and

practice” experience

Anna Maria Tammaro (PhD), Parma University

Getaneh Alemu (PhD), Southampton Solent University

@getaneha

EMMA Webinar Series - Boost the impact of your MOOC using Europeana Collections

Date and time: May 25th 2016 14:00 CET

Paradigm shift in learning

EMMA Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an implementation of a broader

paradigm shift in learning

A social constructivist approach to learning where students are proactively

engaged in an open, democratic, inclusive and collaborative environment

(Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky)

Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction

Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by

participants

Digital library in principle and practice

University of Parma, Italy, Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro

Co-authors: Liliana Melgar, Eric Boamah, Getaneh Alemu, Elena Giusti

Duration: 4 weeks (6-8 hours a week), commenced April 12th 2016

More than 500 learners

Diversity and Number of participants in the light of MOOC

Digital libraries (DLs) for learning

DLs as platforms to co-create

EMMA MOOC - Digital library in

principle and practice

Digital library as a platform

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The role of metadata to boost

Europeana use in MOOC

Boost use of Europeana content in EMMA

Courses• Open the Europeana portal and search for a painting

entitled “The School of Athens” by Raffaello.

• Using the Dublin Core metadata standard, fill-out the

metadata for it including descriptive, administrative,

structural and technical metadata details

• Please also write a summary of the painting in your

own words.

• By the way who are the philosophers depicted in

this painting? Do you think the metadata given in

Europeana is adequate, user-centred, and

complete? What is missing? You are here to add

meaning to the object.

• By completing this assignment, you will appreciate

the value of metadata, not only for textual information

objects but also for paintings and related resources

as well.

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022703/oai_euromuseos_

mcu_es_euromuseos_MRABASF_0047.html

Europeana metadata

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022703/oai_euromuseos_mcu_es_euromuseos_MRABASF_0047.html

EMMA students asked for user-centred, enriched metadata suitable for kindergarten, elementary and even high school students.

Enriching existing content with metadata

https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/renaissance-art-europe-ap/a/raphael-school-of-athens

Europeana collections in EMMA

The theory of enriching and filtering

(Alemu, 2014)

Enriching EMMA & Europeana with metadata

Europeana is a great collection of cultural heritage content with more than 50

million information objects platform

Automatic cross linking, cross-mapping of Europeana content with EMMA

metadata

EMMA MOOC Digital Library in principle and practice has encouraged the co-

creation of content & metadata using tags and metadata crowdsourcing

Thank You!

Getaneh.Alemu@solent.ac.ukhttps://portal.solent.ac.uk/library/essential-info/meet-team/getaneh-alemu.aspx