1. Computer Technology Institute & Press “DIOPHANTUS” Photodentro LOR The Greek National Learning Object Repository 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference Valencia - 10th - 12th March 2014 Elina Megalou & Christos Kaklamanis

3. http://photodentro.edu.gr/lor

4. Additional specifications for Photodentro LOR leaning objects: serve goals of the national curricula be provided under a cost-free license for educational purposes A Learning Object in Photodentro LOR: Any digital resource that 1.has as a clear educational purpose reusable 2.is reusable 3.is semantically and functionally self- contained A Learning Object in Photodentro LOR: Any digital resource that 1.has as a clear educational purpose reusable 2.is reusable 3.is semantically and functionally self- contained

6. http://dschool.edu.gr

7. Interactive textbooks: a familiar browsing interface for teachers to navigate through learning resources

8. Issues: extract autonomous objects from more composite ones granularity of learning objects and reusability

10. 4.100 learning objects (3/14)Digital School community ~120 qualified teachers in 10 domain-specific supervised groups

11. Metadata based on the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) specification Development of an IEEE LOM Application Profile Development team: experts in pedagogical and technological issues and metadata standards Controlled vocabularies: based on the Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) LOM AP THE PHOTODENTRO LOR IEEE LOM APPLICATION PROFILE

13. FREE-TEXT SEARCH

14. Click-and-play Thumbnail Preview Learning Object Reproduce a Learning Object Reference URL Resource URL : URI of the learning resource Creative Commons’ Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike license

16. A strong user requirement for a school learning object repository

17. Requirements for the Photodentro LOR thematic classification system:  allow classification of resources according to pupils’ perception of how resources are organized  keep the classification simple (up to three hierarchical levels)  comply with the national curriculum for primary and secondary education 10 three-level thematic classification taxonomies

18. learning objects include explorations and inquiry-oriented activities, dynamic simulations and experiments, educational games

22. Based on DSpace open source repository management system Significant extensions and customizations in order to meet the requirements of Photodentro LOR: Implementation of the Photodentro LOR IEEE LOM AP Graphical user interface custom workflows and forms for metadata authoring process … http://