Mixing Educational Content: Publisher’s textbooks, teachers materials, open content Leonie Verhoeff

The project EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal  Nov 2011 – febr 2012  Part of ECK2 programme: remixing educational content  Tools: Metaplus, Wikiwijs delen, Query builder  Participants: Educational publishers, schools, teacher-communities (Digischool)/repository owners  SLO – detailled curriculum description / vocabularies (subjects: Geography & Mathematics)  Kennisnet / Edurep / Wikiwijs  Individual teachers for evaluation of the project

Why this project? EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal  From other (ECK 1) projects we learned:  Teachers need variation on their basic curriculum  The current search facilities do not provide enough useful teaching material (too much, not appropriate, not good enough) This includes: - general search facilities (the Googles) - specific search facilities (teachers search portals like Wikiwijs)

Ambition EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal  Achieve a fundamental improvement for the teacher who wants to make a good mix of educational resources and wants to use this mix in an effective way.  2 scenario’s: – A. Search by structure of the textbook – B. Search by subject matter / detailed curriculum description

Mixing and matching curriculum materials EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Publishers content Teachers content Open content

Metadata Vakinhoud Methodesite / Zoekportaal Edurep The architecture Aanbieder A Leerobjecten Metadata Aanbieder C Leerobjecten Metadata Aanbieder B Leerobjecten Metadata Leermaterialencollecties

Architecture EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Mathematics Geography

Methodesite Zoekportaal Edurep Meta- Plus Proeftuin Wiskunde Noordhoff WikiwijsDigischool Schooltv beeldbank Wikiwijs Digi- school Math United Barlaeus- gymnasium Studio VO Freudenthal Instituut Leermaterialenbanken Les 2.0 Dalton Voorburg

Methodesite Zoekportaal Edurep Leermaterialenbanken Meta- Plus Proeftuin Aardrijkskunde WikiwijsDigischool Schooltv beeldbank Wikiwijs Digi- school Codename Future Les 2.0 EduGIS Thieme Meulenhoff Codename Future

Metaplus EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Vocabularies / vdex Geography Mathematics

Wikiwijs delen EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Query BuilderQuery Builder new EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Query builder – search results EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

De Geo Community (ThiemeMeulenhoff) EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Search results from the Query Builder : query is built by publisher

Codename Future EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Search results from the Query Builder : query is built by publisher

Getal & Ruimte - Noordhoff EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal query is built by teacher

DigischoolDigischool : detailed curriculum EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

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EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Wikiwijs: edit & search EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal Metadata Vakinhoud

EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

New tools: a new Architecture Onderwijs Begrippen kader Bron Metadata Editor MBE vocabularies

BME: Bron Metadata Editor EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Back to the project : evaluation EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal  What did we evaluate  How did we evaluate  What did we learn so far  Next steps

Evaluatie van de proeftuinen leermiddelenmix VO Irma van der Neut Marian Kat-de Jong

What did we evaluate 1.Questions for the project / programme (ECK2) 2.Questions for teachers 3.Questions for content providors, repository owners and portal builders

Questions for teachers 1.Are the 2 search scenario’s (- structure of the textbook or - subject matter / detailed curriculum description) usefull for teachers when they are looking for additional or replacement teaching material? 2.Do teachers get enough and relevant search results when searching by detailed curriculum specifications?

How did we evaluate  Sessions with 21 teachers  Demonstration of both scenario’s  Hands-on search excercises and evaluations  Interviews (14) with content owners who offered learning objects.  Interviews with portal builders (both educational publishers and open content owners)  Interviews with metadata editors

Some results….. EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal  Teachers appreciate searching for additional teaching material by (detailed) curriculum description (convenience, speed, better than Google)  Methodically working teachers prefer scenario A (search from the structure of the textbook)  Teachers expect that from Scenario A additional material found on the publishers website is judged on quality  Teachers expect that additional material is free and open (and easy to access)  Teachers wanted more info (metadata) on the learning objects to judge the individual learning objects (type of material, typical learning time, rating/peer review, …)  Queries build by publishers are not always what teachers wish or expect

Results and the future  The results are currently only available for internal use.  We need more investigation  We will start other projects (primary school, vocational training, project linked data)

Results – metadata Takes a lot of time Can only be done by specialists on the subject

Results – curriculum based vocabularies  Nearly everybody finds it good to have a standard description of the curriculum  A detailed vocabulairy gives better search results  For Mathematics and geography the representation of the curriculum in the pilot was clear but there were remarks on complexcity and details

Any questions?  Now?  Or later: EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal