Share.TEC: Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community

Jeffrey Earp (ITD-CNR)

Third EdReNe Expert WorkshopEngaging Users & Producers

Linz, Austria – 18-21 November, 2009

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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…

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Share.TEC – the project…• Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community

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• June 2008 - 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)

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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

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Teacher Educators

learners

Practising teachers

practitioners

Inital Teacher Education (ITE) Cont. Prof. Development (CPD)

Student teachers

Teacher Educators & trainers

learners

practitioners

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teacher educator (individual / institution)

practising teacher

student teacher

End users: Share.TEC’s primary targets

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Share.TEC stakeholders & secondary users

• Educational repositories• TE institutions• Associations and communities of teacher

educators & teachers• Education ministries• Publishers and publisher associations• Content providers

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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

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In Europe we have this…

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… and we want to have this!

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What does Share.TEC do?

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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?

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1.1 - What resources?

1.2 - What metadata?

1.3 - How are these collected?

1. Unified access to…

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1.1 - What resources?

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• 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

1.1 - What resources?

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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

1.2 - What metadata?

Common Metadata Model (CMM) - a TE-specific LOM-based application profile

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addressing linguistic and cultural issues (based on an ontological approach)

Teacher Education Ontology

1.2 - What metadata?

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• harvested from repositories via OAI-PMH & through the Metadata Migration Facility (MMF)

• created by users with help from the Resource Integration Companion Kit (RICK)

1.3 - How are these collected?

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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

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3. sharing resources and experiences…

– ratings – tagging– social networking capabilities (groups, etc.) – annotation about resource use in specific TE

contexts (profile-related)

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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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prototype

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Where is Share.TEC in the EdRe landscape?

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• 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

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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

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Engaging users….in Share.TEC

• focus groups - 2009-2010

• training sessions (teacher educators, teachers) - summer 2010

• user-stakeholder events - 2009-2010

• personalised services

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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. 2010– Memoranda of understanding with established initiatives

(national & EC projects, content providers)• System tools and functionalities (MMF)

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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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Thanks…come and see us

• project website

http://www.share-tec.eu/

• contact sharetec@itd.cnr.it

jeff@itd.cnr.it

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A “European” TE resource