Intute and Organic.Edunet Jackie Wickham ALLCU, Oxford, July 2008

What is Intute

Use of the Internet for Studies The Internet is clearly an essential tool Almost all students use if for researching essays and projects (Market research by FDS – Feb/March 2008) Students:Do you ever use the Internet to do research for essays or projects? Source: FDS online survey

Solving the frustrations of the Internet The Internet is a powerful tool for education and research, providing a range of educational resources to support traditional teaching and learning Issues of trust, quality, information overload, poor searching and retrieving skills are significant concerns – particularly in the context of education and research Intute is a free, national Internet service aimed at higher and further education, providing the very best web resources for teaching, learning and research

Intute is different Intute uses a national network of information and subject specialists to select and evaluate Internet resources for their quality and relevance…. including the Wellcome Trust, Royal College of Nursing, University of Oxford.

Network of specialists Four subject groups comprise Intute: Arts and Humanities Health and Life Sciences Science, Engineering and Technology Social Sciences Hand selected, quality assured content – by the community for the community

Use The Intute website

Finding the Best of the Web Search/Browse the catalogue Over 120,300 records, each one hand selected and described by a subject specialist Simple keyword or phrase searching Refine your search by type of resource Simple or Advanced searching options Browse by subject heading or keyword

Or integrate the content into your own site

Examples of integrating.. Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources List latest language resources added to Intute, on your library Web page Create your reading lists from Intute resources

Intute Search Box Intute RSS Feeds Intute RSS Feeds Records from Intute catalogue Records from Intute catalogue

Contact details Jackie Wickham Service Manager: Health and Life Sciences uk

16/43 Co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme

17/43 contents  Overview and partners  content  scenarios  connect to

overview

Organic.Edunet  builds a multilingual federation of learning repositories  content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecology  for the awareness & education of European Youth

about  Targeted Project  funded by the eContentplus Programme  started on October 2007  duration 36 months  co-funded by EC  Overall budget: euros

overall coverage  15 partners from 10 EU countries

need  systematic collection and categorisation of learning resources related to OA and AE  integrating online environment  increase use and reuse  study & assessment of usage scenarios  in the context of formal educational programs in Europe

objectives  Publication of content  Online environment – search, retrieval, use  Scenarios to support teaching and learning  Evaluation – pilot trials  Sustainable structures

Search and Browse learning resources Find scenarios - using organic resources in teaching and learning Public Underpinned by.. Repository interface – manual or electronic upload Federated repository Database of scenarios Ontologies – to support search and retrieval Educational metadata (IEE LOM)

targeted users  tomorrow’s consumers: highschool children  to be familiarized with concepts & benefits of OA & AE  tomorrow’s professionals: students of agricultural universities  to be educated about methods and practices of OA & AE

content

content stakeholders  EU-funded initiatives  public or private not-for-profit organisations  agricultural publishing houses  agricultural universities & institutes  rural schools & teachers …other?

University/college resources  consortium-provided content resources  ECOLOGICA, COMPASS projects  selection from Intute repository resources  teaching resources from agricultural universities  other tutor-provided resources

resources

Resource types  Lectures  Best practice guides  Games  Documents  Websites  Exercises

school teachers’ resources  type  worksheets lesson plans, etc.  topic area  life sciences

public resources - examples  FAO  Organic ePrints  SEAE – Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecologica

scenarios

Cooking with Ecological Products

Excursion to an Organic Farm

connect to  need more information?  want to get affiliated with Organic.Edunet?  visit   