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Co-funded by the European CommissionCo-funded by the European CommissioneeContentContentplusplus programme programme

http://www.organic-edunet.euhttp://www.organic-edunet.eu

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Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet

builds a multilingual federation of builds a multilingual federation of learning repositories learning repositories

content about Organic Agriculture content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecologyand Agroecology

for the awareness & education of for the awareness & education of European YouthEuropean Youth


aboutabout

Targeted ProjectTargeted Project funded by the funded by the eeContentContentplusplus

ProgrammeProgramme started on October 2007started on October 2007

duration 36 monthsduration 36 months co-funded by ECco-funded by EC

Overall budget: 4.800.000 eurosOverall budget: 4.800.000 euros


rationale rationale (1/2)(1/2)

irreversible damage done to the irreversible damage done to the environment by current environment by current agricultural practices agricultural practices

soil and water pollutionsoil and water pollution depletion of natural resourcesdepletion of natural resources destruction of delicate ecosystemsdestruction of delicate ecosystems


rationale rationale (2/2)(2/2)

Organic Agriculture (Organic Agriculture (OAOA) & ) & Agroecology (Agroecology (AEAE) as alternative ) as alternative approachesapproaches

safer agricultural & food productssafer agricultural & food products environmentally sound productionenvironmentally sound production

“…“…need for actions supporting the training and need for actions supporting the training and education of education of all stakeholdersall stakeholders related to OA related to OA…”…”

EU Action Plan for Organic Food & Farming, EU Action Plan for Organic Food & Farming, 20042004


needneed systematic collection and categorisation systematic collection and categorisation

of learning resources related to OA and of learning resources related to OA and AEAE

integrating online environment integrating online environment increase use and reuseincrease use and reuse

study & assessment of usage scenarios study & assessment of usage scenarios in the context of formal educational in the context of formal educational

programs in Europeprograms in Europe


objectives objectives (1/5)(1/5)

support stakeholders producing support stakeholders producing content about OA & AEcontent about OA & AE

describe according to multilingual, describe according to multilingual, standard-complying metadata standard-complying metadata

publish in online federation of publish in online federation of learning repositorieslearning repositories



deploy a multilingual online deploy a multilingual online environment on top of the online environment on top of the online federation of repositoriesfederation of repositories

to facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, to facilitate end-users’ search, retrieval, access and use of learning resourcesaccess and use of learning resources

the the Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet Web portalWeb portal



study educational scenarios to study educational scenarios to support the teaching of OA & AE support the teaching of OA & AE relevant topicsrelevant topics

use use Organic.Edunet Organic.Edunet Web portal to find Web portal to find learning resources in the repositories learning resources in the repositories

targeted user organisationstargeted user organisations high-schoolshigh-schools agricultural universitiesagricultural universities



involve various European schools & involve various European schools & universities to evaluate project universities to evaluate project resultsresults

focused pilot trials withinfocused pilot trials within Organic.Edunet Organic.Edunet partnerpartner institutions institutions

open validation events within open validation events within Organic.Edunet Organic.Edunet affiliatedaffiliated institutions institutions



create organisational structures to create organisational structures to support the sustainability of project support the sustainability of project resultsresults

reinforce the cooperation of reinforce the cooperation of stakeholders in the OA & AE content stakeholders in the OA & AE content area area


targeted userstargeted users tomorrow’s tomorrow’s consumersconsumers: highschool : highschool

children children to be familiarized with concepts & to be familiarized with concepts &

benefits of OA & AE benefits of OA & AE tomorrow’s tomorrow’s professionalsprofessionals: students : students

of agricultural universitiesof agricultural universities to be educated about methods and to be educated about methods and

practices of OA & AEpractices of OA & AE

contentcontent


content stakeholderscontent stakeholders EU-funded initiatives EU-funded initiatives public or private not-for-profit public or private not-for-profit

organisationsorganisations agricultural publishing housesagricultural publishing houses agricultural universities & institutesagricultural universities & institutes rural schools & teachersrural schools & teachers


teaching & learning teaching & learning resourcesresources

consortium-provided content resourcesconsortium-provided content resources BIO@GRO, ECOLOGICA, COMPASS projectsBIO@GRO, ECOLOGICA, COMPASS projects selection from Intute repository resourcesselection from Intute repository resources teaching resources from agricultural teaching resources from agricultural

universitiesuniversities other tutor-provided resourcesother tutor-provided resources

publicly-available resourcespublicly-available resources selection from resources available online selection from resources available online

by not-for-profit organisations (e.g. FAO)by not-for-profit organisations (e.g. FAO)


BIO@GRO resourcesBIO@GRO resources typetype

lectures, best lectures, best practice guides, practice guides, games, etc.games, etc.

topic areatopic area OA methods & OA methods &

practicespractices partnerpartner

USAMVB, AUAUSAMVB, AUA quantityquantity

400400


Intute resourcesIntute resources typetype

documents, documents, lectures, etc.lectures, etc.

topic areatopic area agriculture, agriculture,

forestryforestry partnerpartner

IntuteIntute quantityquantity

4,4504,450


ECOLOGICA & COMPASS ECOLOGICA & COMPASS resourcesresources typetype

lectures, lectures, notes, etc.notes, etc.

topic areatopic area OAOA

partnerpartner BCE, MOGERTBCE, MOGERT

quantityquantity 1,3001,300


university tutors’ university tutors’ resourcesresources typetype

lectures, notes, lectures, notes, exercises, etc.exercises, etc.

topic areatopic area OA & AEOA & AE

partnerpartner UMB, EULSUMB, EULS

quantityquantity 130130


school teachers’ resourcesschool teachers’ resources typetype

worksheets, worksheets, lesson plans, lesson plans, etc.etc.

topic areatopic area life scienceslife sciences

partnerpartner Miksike, EAMiksike, EA

quantityquantity 300300


public resourcespublic resources typetype

lectures, papers, lectures, papers, exercises, etc.exercises, etc.

topic areatopic area OA & AEOA & AE

partnerpartner AUA, UAHAUA, UAH

quantityquantity 1,8001,800

technologytechnology


metadata & ontologiesmetadata & ontologies adoption of metadata standards & adoption of metadata standards &

specificationsspecifications IEEE LOM application profileIEEE LOM application profile

use of ontologies to facilitate use of ontologies to facilitate search & retrievalsearch & retrieval

reasoning about queriesreasoning about queries enriching search resultsenriching search results


architecturearchitecture overall architectureoverall architecture

repository management modulerepository management module learning content exchange modulelearning content exchange module semantic services modulesemantic services module web portal moduleweb portal module


overall overall architectuarchitectu

rere

Users

Web Portal Module

Semantic Services Module

Content Providers

Learning Resources Exchange Module

Federation of Learning Resource Repositories

Learning Repository Management Module

Public Resources

BIO@GRO

Intute

School

ENOAT

Organic.Edunet Federation of Learning

Repositories

ECOLOGICA/COMPASS


SHAME Editor+

Confolio

2SHAME Editor+

Confolio

1 SHAME Editor+

Confolio

3 SHAME Editor+

Confolio

4 SHAME Editor+

Confolio

6SHAME Editor+

Confolio

5

BCEEnglishNorwegianEstonianHungarian

Organic.Edunet Suite of Tools

USAMVB-FAEnglishGreekGermanRomanian

MOGERTHungarianEnglish

INTUTEEnglishGermanGreekNorwegianEstonianHungarian, RomanianRussianSpanish

MIKSIKEEnglishGreekEstonianRussian

AUAGermanGreekNorwegianEstonianHungarianRomanianRussianSpanish


Content Providers

ENOAT SCAM

RepositoryModule

ECOLOGICA/ COMPASS

SCAM Repository

Module

Intute SCAM

RepositoryModule

Public Resources

SCAM Repository

Module

School SCAM

RepositoryModule

BIO@GRO SCAM

RepositoryModule

SCAM Repositories



Learning ResourcesExchange Module

repository repository managemmanagem

ent ent modulemodule

Learning Object Repository

JENA/ NG4J

DAO

Struts2/ Spring/ REST

SCAM Repository


learning learning resourceresource

s s exchangexchange modulee module



XML Transformation

OAI-PMH

AriadneFederation

XML Transformation

SQI API


EUN’s LREFederation

Content Providers

ECOLOGICA/COMPASS

Public Resources

BIO@AGRO

Intute

School

ENOAT

Organic.Edunet Federation of Learning

Repositories


semantic semantic services services modulemodule

WSMO LOMR

OntologiesLOMR Module

RDF2WSMOConverter

Metadata Harversting Mechanism

LOM2WSMO Translator

Module


uses

Web Service QueryInterface

Organic.Edunet Web Portal Module



web portal web portal modulemodule

Role Filtering Mechanism

Web Portal

StudentsUniv

TeachersSchool

TeachersPupils

Eval LR

Collaborative Filtering

Mechanism

Collaborative Filtering Module

Users

Web Portal Module



Confolio Repository Suite of Tools

Confolio Repository Suite of Tools


Learning resources are annotated Learning resources are annotated and uploaded into the Confolio and uploaded into the Confolio

Repository Suite of ToolsRepository Suite of Tools

Then, they are harvested by the Then, they are harvested by the Organic.Edunet Web Federation Organic.Edunet Web Federation Portal and are made available in Portal and are made available in http://portal.organic-edunet.eu

Annotation in Confolio…Annotation in Confolio…

• Metadata for the Metadata for the resourceresource– TitleTitle– KeywordsKeywords– DescriptionDescription– etcetc


How to make a successful workshopHow to make a successful workshop


Web Federation PortalWeb Federation Portal

http://www.organic-edunet.euhttp://www.organic-edunet.eu 3737//4343

scenariosscenarios


university scenario university scenario (1/2)(1/2) a professor of animal production in an urban a professor of animal production in an urban

agricultural university of Norway prepares a agricultural university of Norway prepares a lecture on organic poultry farminglecture on organic poultry farming

wants to show a real example of an operating farmwants to show a real example of an operating farm wants to talk about benefits & shortcomingswants to talk about benefits & shortcomings

a number of students’ diploma theses in a a number of students’ diploma theses in a Romanian rural university has produced a Romanian rural university has produced a variety of digital materialvariety of digital material

interviews of farmers, videos of a real organic farminterviews of farmers, videos of a real organic farm

how to link those two ?how to link those two ?


university scenario university scenario (2/2)(2/2)

students in the rural university students in the rural university upload their videos in upload their videos in Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet

the professor in the rural universitythe professor in the rural university uploads article on long-term economic uploads article on long-term economic

benefits from organic poultry farmingbenefits from organic poultry farming the professor in the urban university the professor in the urban university

searches searches Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet finds the descriptions of the above resourcesfinds the descriptions of the above resources downloads, uses in his lecturedownloads, uses in his lecture


school scenario school scenario (1/2)(1/2)

a highschool teacher in a Greek island is a highschool teacher in a Greek island is teaching environmental educationteaching environmental education

wants to raise awareness of his students wants to raise awareness of his students about the damage being done to the about the damage being done to the environmentenvironment

wants to use a variety of examples from wants to use a variety of examples from their regiontheir region

wants to share these examples with wants to share these examples with teachers in other schools of Greek islandsteachers in other schools of Greek islands

how to prepare, store and share digital how to prepare, store and share digital teaching resources?teaching resources?


school scenario school scenario (2/2)(2/2) a collaborative outdoor activity is organiseda collaborative outdoor activity is organised

students split in groups, study various effectsstudents split in groups, study various effects e.g. visit to nearby river polluted by an olive e.g. visit to nearby river polluted by an olive

processing - oil production facilityprocessing - oil production facility students take pictures, write a small report students take pictures, write a small report

on their findings, make a class presentationon their findings, make a class presentation results are uploaded to results are uploaded to Organic.EdunetOrganic.Edunet their classmates and teachers/students from their classmates and teachers/students from

other schools may access them onlineother schools may access them online

project partnersproject partners


overall coverageoverall coverage

16 16 partners partners from 10 from 10 EU EU countriescountries


roles: contentroles: content providers of teaching & learning resourcesproviders of teaching & learning resources

Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), GreeceAgricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) OÜ Miksike, EstoniaOÜ Miksike, Estonia University of Nottingham (Intute), UKUniversity of Nottingham (Intute), UK Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE), HungaryCorvinus University of Budapest (BCE), Hungary Hungarian Association of Ecological Farming Hungarian Association of Ecological Farming

(MOGERT)(MOGERT) Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS)Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS) University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary

Medicine of Bucharest (USAMVB), RomaniaMedicine of Bucharest (USAMVB), Romania Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft,

Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft - BMLFUW (Austria)Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft - BMLFUW (Austria)


roles: technologyroles: technology state-of-art tools & technologies state-of-art tools & technologies

that are being adapted & that are being adapted & specializedspecialized

University of Alcala (UAH), SpainUniversity of Alcala (UAH), Spain Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),

SwedenSweden Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Agricultural University of Athens (AUA),

GreeceGreece


roles: educationalroles: educational educational methods, scenarios design, educational methods, scenarios design,

user trialsuser trials Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), GreeceEllinogermaniki Agogi (EA), Greece Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) OÜ Miksike, EstoniaOÜ Miksike, Estonia Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture

(BMUKK), Austria(BMUKK), Austria Corvinus University Budapest (BCE), HungaryCorvinus University Budapest (BCE), Hungary Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS)Estonian University of Life Sciences (EULS) Bundesgymnasium Schwechat (BGS), AustriaBundesgymnasium Schwechat (BGS), Austria University of Agronomic Sciences and Vet.Med. University of Agronomic Sciences and Vet.Med.

Bucharest (USAMVB-FA), RomaniaBucharest (USAMVB-FA), Romania


roles: qualityroles: quality evaluation, validation, quality evaluation, validation, quality

assuranceassurance University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE),

GermanyGermany Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and

Culture (BMUKK), AustriaCulture (BMUKK), Austria


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