1. 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

2. 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)
universities, research inst., schools of education
ed. technology developers
educational publisher
eContentplus

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

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

6. 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

7. What does Share.TEC do?

8. 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

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

10. 1.1 - What resources?

11. 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

12. 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

13. 1.2 - What metadata?
addressing linguistic and cultural issues (based on an ontological approach)
Teacher Education Ontology

14. 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)

15. 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

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

17. 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!

18. prototype

19. Thanks…come and see us project website http://www.share-tec.eu/
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