Share.TEC: Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community

Fred de Vries Open Universiteit,

Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies Stefania Bocconi

Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche-CNR

Barcelona – 26 March 2010

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Share.TEC – the project…• Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community• eContentplus programme • June 2008 - May 2011• Consortium:

– Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, CNR (IT) (Coordinator)– Trinity College Dublin (IE) – Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia (IT)– Stockholm University (SE)– Open University of the Netherlands (NL)– Universidad de Valladolid (ES)– Sofia University (BG)– CLUEB Editore (IT)

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universities, research inst., schools of education

ed. technology developers

educational publisher

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teacher educator (individual / institution)

practising teacher

student teacher

End users: Share.TEC’s primary targets

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Share.TEC stakeholders & secondary users

• Educational repositories• TE institutions• Associations and communities of teacher

educators & teachers• Education ministries• Publishers and publisher associations• Content providers

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Share.TEC’s mission

Support innovation in the Teacher Education field by facilitating:• access to digital resources • sharing of reuse experiences• development of TE expertise across national boundaries

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1. Provides unified access to TE resources from established repositories and individual users

2. Offers specialized search functions and personalized, adaptive user tools

3. Supports TE communities based on sharing of resources and experiences

What does Share.TEC do?

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1.1 - What resources?

1.2 - What metadata?

1.3 - How are these collected?

1. Unified access to…

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1.1 - What resources?

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• addressing actors in the TE world (not K-12 students directly )

• comprising lessons plans, teaching modules, best practices, reference material, etc.

• coming from sources across Europe

• comprising “open” and commercial approaches

1.1 - What resources?

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Sections 1 to 8 - LOM

interoperability in metadata migration from/to repositories

standards-based metadata

Sections 9 and 10 – TEO(Teacher Education Ontology)

TE specific, culturally dependent elements & vocabularies

pedagogically–oriented metadata

1.2 - What metadata?

Common Metadata Model (CMM) - a TE-specific LOM-based application profile

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addressing linguistic and cultural issues (based on an ontological approach)

Teacher Education Ontology

1.2 - What metadata?

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• harvested from repositories via OAI-PMH & through the Metadata Migration Facility (MMF)

• created by users with help from the Resource Integration Companion Kit (RICK)

1.3 - How are these collected?

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2. specialized search and tools…– multilingual interface – queries with familiar TE terms– simple & advanced query filtering– personalization functions, e.g. preset search

values, ranking/sorting of search results, recommender, etc.

– semantically-supported search

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3. sharing resources and experiences…– ratings – tagging– social networking capabilities (groups, etc.) – annotation about resource use in specific TE

contexts (profile-related)

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What point is Share.TEC at?• Validation of Beta version in April• Organizing pilots in 2010• Aggregation of consortium partners’

metadataOngoing issues:• Sustainability, • user involvement … You are invited!

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prototype

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Thanks…come and see us

• project website

http://www.share-tec.eu/

• contact bocconi@itd.cnr.it

fred.devries@ou.nl