Share.TEC: Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community Jeffrey Earp (ITD-CNR) Third EdReNe Expert Workshop Engaging Users & Producers Linz, Austria - 18 Novembre, 2009

eContentplus Presentation Overview The project & the people How do we see the Teacher Education (TE) field? Who are the target users and stakeholders? What is Share.TEC’s mission? What does Share.TEC do? What point is Share.TEC at? Where is Share.TEC in the EdRe landscape? Some aspects of engaging users & producers…

eContentplus Share.TEC – the project… Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community eContentplus programme June 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) eContentplus universities, research inst., schools of education ed. technology developers educational publisher

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How we see the Teacher Education (TE) field Inital Teacher Education (ITE) - pre-service teacher training –higher education courses leading to formal accrediation Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - in-service teacher training –organised training initiatives & individual self-guided learning

eContentplus Teacher Educators learners Practising teachers practitioners Inital Teacher Education (ITE) Cont. Prof. Development (CPD) Student teachers Teacher Educators & trainers learners practitioners

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

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

eContentplus 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

eContentplus In Europe we have this…

eContentplus … and we want to have this!

eContentplus What does Share.TEC do?

eContentplus 1.Provides unified access to TE resources from established repositories and individual users (federated aggregation of metadata) 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?

eContentplus What resources? What metadata? How are these collected? 1. Unified access to…

eContentplus What resources?

eContentplus 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 What resources?

eContentplus 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 What metadata? Common Metadata Model (CMM) - a TE-specific LOM-based application profile

eContentplus addressing linguistic and cultural issues (based on an ontological approach) Teacher Education Ontology What metadata?

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

eContentplus 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

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

eContentplus What point is Share.TEC at? Validation of first prototype Development of pilot system Ongoing generation and aggregation of consortium partners’ metadata Ongoing issues Sustainability, IPR, user involvement

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eContentplus Where is Share.TEC in the EdRe landscape?

eContentplus learn* (…er, …ers, …ing)-382 teach* (…er, …ers, …ing)-243 teacher education/training-9 professional development-4 EdReNe SoA – some keyword counts EDReNE SoA Report: For almost 100% of EDRENE members, teachers are the primary target

eContentplus KlasCement (BE)- primary & secondary education, teacher training, adult ed. LeMill (EE)- descriptions of teaching and learning methods and tools Opettaja.tv (FI)- online in-service teacher training courses Gold (IT)- teachers’ pedagogical experiences (with digital resources) Scoilnet (IE)- curriculum and training materials for teachers Teachers.tv (UK)- videos for professional development and classroom use SoA – repositoires with a stated teacher training or teacher education dimension

eContentplus Engaging users….in Share.TEC focus groups training sessions (teacher educators, teachers) - summer 2010 user-stakeholder events personalised services

eContentplus Engaging producers ….in Share.TEC Addressing producer needs/concerns (inside & outside the consortium) Events & workshops 1st Workshop: Representing Teacher Education with Ontologies: Towards a Multicultural Dimension, Jan. 09, Venice IT 2nd workshop: Sharing Teacher Education Resources in Europe: Capturing Users’ Perspectives, July 09, Dublin IE –3rd workshop: Heerlen, NL, April 2010 –Project exhibition: Online Educa, Berlin Dec –Memoranda of understanding with established initiatives (national & EC projects, content providers) System tools and functionalities (MMF )

eContentplus Engaging users … some thoughts on identifying with the service “It is hard to underestimate the importance of (the editing issue) as a means of satisfying authors. While there is an editing phase, it is "their" repository. Without an editing phase it is "my" repository. It provides a service for me: I put things there so that I can find them later. I care much more about what is in the repository, because I have responsibility. I could go on to use words like "empowerment“… The feeling of difference is enormous: instead of it being something that is an extra imposition that costs me time, it is much clearer it is a useful service that … becomes part of my working structure…” Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton, JISC-REPOSITORIES mailing list (UK)

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