1. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources across Europe Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR, Italy TenCompetence workshop Sofia, Oct. 29-30th, 2008

2. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR Teacher Education (TE) includes various… Actors: teacher & trainer educators, practising & trainee teachers, publishers, content & service providers… Phases: Initital Teacher Education (ITE) & Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Learning processes: formal & non- formal, guided & self-directed

3. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR Pressing TE needs across Europe Ready access to reusable, user-validated digital resources Richer offering of TE-specific digital content (OER & commercial) Sense of community stretching beyond immediate locus; community engagement Broad European perspective – sharing experiences, practices & approaches

4. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR cultural differences TE gateway TE networks TE resources & expertise commercial & OER potential

5. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR Gateway to federated TE-specific resources - Metadata aggregation & harvesting (no LMS) - TE metadata model (pan-European & specific levels) Personalized services: adaptive interface & query A starting core of user-validated TE content Promotion of European TE content marketplace TE community support tools: feedback, ranking, experiential annotation, social networking, enriching metadata aggregation Proposed response

6. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR Existing services, programs & models Learning Resource Exchange VICE

7. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR TE ONTOLOGY - rationale Fostering shared understanding and communication among humans –a mappable set of TE-relevant concepts –non-ambiguous vocabulary Enabling adaptive user interface and reasoning-based query services Guiding design and system specification of tools and services

8. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR Facilitating resource retrieval –Inferential search engine –Flexible representation of user profiles –Ranking solutions Providing linguistic & cultural interoperability –Bridging different national systems TE ONTOLOGY - rationale

9. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR TE ONTOLOGY - main branches

10. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR TE ONTOLOGY - Multilayer structure Common level (culturally-independent) Specific levels (culturally-dependent)

11. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual approach Metadata Models: common + language- context specific Own working language Familiar references to other educational contexts/systems suitable TE terminology & metadata

12. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual approach Cultural connotation of TE models –Mapping different ‘local’ conditions Use peer recommendations Enrich resource with notation of user experience

13. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR Integrated model Top down Bottom up TE ONTOLOGY Folksonomies, experiential annotations

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15. TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR