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

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) universities, research inst., schools of education ed. technology developers educational publisher eContentplus

End users: Share.TEC’s primary targets teacher educator (individual / institution) practising teacher student teacher innovation

Share.TEC stakeholders & secondary users Educational repositories TE institutions Associations and communities of teacher educators & teachers Education ministries Publishers and publisher associations Content providers

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

What does Share.TEC do?

What does Share.TEC do? Provides unified access to TE resources from established repositories and individual users Offers specialized search functions and personalized, adaptive user tools Supports TE communities based on sharing of resources and experiences

1. Unified access to… 1.1 - What resources? 1.2 - What metadata? 1.3 - How are these collected?

1.1 - What resources?

1.1 - What resources? 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

1.2 - What metadata? Common Metadata Model (CMM) - a TE-specific LOM-based application profile 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? addressing linguistic and cultural issues (based on an ontological approach) Teacher Education Ontology

1.3 - How are these collected? harvested from repositories via OAI-PMH & through the Metadata Migration Facility (MMF) created by users with help from the Resource Integration Companion Kit (RICK)

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

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

What point is Share.TEC at? Validation of Beta version in April Organizing pilots in 2010 Aggregation of consortium partners’ metadata Ongoing issues: Sustainability, user involvement … You are invited!

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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