VO-raad Netherlands (Board of secondary schools)

Innovationplatform from the VO-raad

Linda le Grand

Ron Zuylen

Secondary education in the Netherlands (Context)

• Students are in the age 12-18 years• 1.000.000 students• 750 schools for secondary education

Innovationplatform (Context)

Goals• Stimulate the use of open digital content. • Create the opportunity for schools to make a

good mix of learning resources – open versus commercial content– digital versus folio content

• 2012: enough content to cover all competences• Enlarging the competences of

schoolmanagement and teachers

Launched October 2009

VO-content exists out of different collections (context)

Our strategy (I)

• We want learners and teachers to use the learning objects.

• The teachers that at the moment use Wikiwijs are mainly ‘early adopters’.

• The schools of these teachers have positively decided to innovate and use (open) digital content in a substantial percentage of the curriculum, or they experiment on an individual basis.

Our strategy (II)

• We need quality besides quantity • Quality in metadata, quality in the content • Teachers are highly interested in curricula

and want to understand where a certain learning object ‘belongs’ in the curriculum. This helps teachers to understand how you can use such an object.

Finding curricula

Curriculum assist users

Metadata specifications

• The educational metadata fields are necessary for sucess.

• Field 9 has a lot of opportunities and in our specifications we made ‘course subject’ and ‘learning level’ mandatory and ‘attainment level’ desirable.

• Recently, Kennisnet started a project on metadata specifications and we participate in that.

Quality system for digital content

SLO helps us to develop a quality system for open digital content.

– How thoroughly and adequate is the metadata? – How do users appreciate the content? – How often is content used? – What do experts think of the content? – Is the learning object part of a larger course/curriculum. – How is the development process of the contentowner

structured? Is there a plan? Have the learning objects linkage to each other.

– Is the development supervised? Is the learning object tried out in the field?

• The thinking on this part is not over, but we hope to implement the first part of it in September.

Content and learning objects

• We look for collections and contact the owner.• We try to have them published their material on

Wikiwijs under a creative commons licence. • We aim at aggregation level 2+, 3 and 4. • Our users at the moment are ‘consumers’

instead of ‘prosumers’ and are looking for ‘out-of-the-box’ content to use in their classes.

Develop/publish

Find

Link

Preview

Download

Arrange (VLE)

Use

Review

Thanks for your attention

Linda le Grandlindalegrand@vo-raad.nlRon Zuylenronzuylen@vo-raad.nl