1. Education eLibrary and Repository
Addis Ababa ETHIOPIA
Education eLibrary and Repository
Yoseph Abate – Ethiopian Educational Research Network - Ethiopia
Behailu Osro – Education Strategy Center – Ethiopia
WACREN e-Research Hackfest – Lagos (Nigeria)
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement n°

2. Outline Background Scientific Problem Study Factors
Computing and Data Model
Technologies
Summary and Conclusion

3. EthERNET EthERNet: Ethiopian Educational Education Research Network
Largest Educational Data Center
Setup to be:
the main national educational contents repository
the second state-owned Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Provider of web-hosting for educational and research institutes
Provider of web services for educational, research institutes and IT companies
background

4. EthERNET… Phase 1: (partially completed) Phase 2: (within 2 years)
All 36 public universities connected with 10Gbps data connectivity (done)
Connection to global Educational Research Networks (in progress)
Connection to high speed commercial internet (in progress)
Phase 2: (within 2 years)
Meshed connectivity between 36 public universities
Phase 3: (within 4 years)
Other public and private research institutions to be connected
Private colleges/Universities to be connected
background

5. ESC background ESC: Education Strategy Center
Responsible for providing directions on education to the government
Pre-primary & Primary schools
Secondary schools
Higher Education
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
Teachers Education
Policy and Governance
Currently designing a 15 years Education Roadmap for Ethiopia
Subthemes of the Roadmap Research:
Literature Review (since 1908)
Field Study
Benchmarking
Integration
Design Comprehensive Education Roadmap
background

6. Resources eLibrary Contents MOOC Contents background Courses Books
Publications
Projects
Thesis
Dissertations
Customized Teaching Materials
Policy Documents
Courses
Video Lectures
Presentation Slides
Exams
Assignments
Grade Records

7. Problems Faced by Researchers Faced by Universities scientific problem
Fragmented resources locations
Lack of streamlined thematic research
Plagiarism
Intellectual Property Rights
Lack of Metadata and Within-Documents Search
Faced by Universities
Replication of similar resources
Realization of harmonized curriculum
Instructors’ quality gap (young or remote universities)
Lower course contents quality within private colleges/universities
scientific problem

8. eLibrary End-User Web Portal Administrators Web Portal:
Users deposit new resources
Users search and access resources by
Subject, Author, Published Date, Resource Type, …
Administrators Web Portal:
Link and import from external repositories such as
Public universities’ libraries
Open courseware sites
Community developed contents
Data integrity checking
computing & data model

9. Course Platform National MOOC Portal Mobile/Tablet App:
Students access courses, practice exams, submit assignments
Students view their grades
Students discuss in forums
Grades linked to Student Information Systems and records updated
Mobile/Tablet App:
Users have access to eLibrary resources
Students have access to their registered courses
computing & data model

10. implementation strategy
Technology Platform
FutureGateway
Authorization & Authentication
Manage tasks
Plagiarism check
Exam correction
Update SIS system with latest student grades
Open edX
Course Content Management
gLibrary
Provides services to access existing data collections or create new ones
RESTifies possibly heterogeneous databases
Open Access Repository (OAR)
Main repository for contents
Uniquely identifies documents within the whole system
implementation strategy

11. summary and conclusion
Input/Output
Input
Collect and Organize contents either as a collection item or course related material
Identify content and link to its origin
Reduce paper-based storage and surfing
Output
Search documents and access easily
Export documents in different formats
Course follow-up and achievements measures
Protect IP rights and fight plagiarism
Proper policy making
summary and conclusion

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