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UNI•C, and our school services

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Ebbe SchultzeChief AdviserUNI•CDenmark

Korean visit9th of August 2010


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• Ebbe Schultze• Teacher, 1980-85 • Head of ICT dep. Copenhagen Schoolboard, 1985-1990• Founder of first international school portal in EU

www.odin.dk, 1987• Educational Advisor at IBM, 1990-1994• School manager, 1994-1997 • Educational Adviser, Ministry of Education, 1997-2003• Chief Adviser at UNI-C, Danish IT Centre for Education

and Research - Agency to the Danish Ministry of Education since 2003

• eTwinning since 2005

My background


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UNI•C Denmark´s IT-Centre for Education and Research

• UNI•C, The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research, offers a broad spectrum of ICT services for the educational and research community, and more than 500,000 users are in frequent contact with UNI•C’s products and IT services.

• UNI•C is an agency to the Danish Ministry of Education. Our core competencies are comprehensive IT solutions for the educational sector - right from the technical connection to pedagogical tools.

• UNI•C has 300 employees at 3 locations in Denmark.

http://www.uni-c.dk/


Objective and Goals

UNI•C contributes to enabling Denmark, as a leading knowledge society, to provide a well-functioning education and research sector which utilizes new technology in an optimum way, and to:

•Ensure the development of adaptable and financially sound IT services within the domain of the Ministry of Education, as well as to provide high-quality and secure IT services for the Danish education and research sector,

•Supply Stident Information systems and ERP-systems to the Ministry of Education and to a range of educational institutions.

•Solve statistical tasks for the Ministry of Education.

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Objective and Goals (ctd.)

• Supply general IT expertise to the Ministry of Education, including assistance with establishing new IT initiatives within both educational and administrative fields,

• Support international and national co-operation and agreements in the network area with special reference to the needs for educational and research institutions to access basic networks, including high-speed networks on demand,

• Work out proposals for IT initiatives to support politically prioritized efforts in the educational area,

• Implement IT-related projects in the educational area in agreement with other ministries.

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International Co-operation

UNIC has extensive international co-operation activities through:

• Many years of involvement inside international IT organizations in the education and research area (TERENA, European Schoolnet (EUN), European Commission Expert Groups),

• Participation in a large number of EU projects, among others within high-speed networks, multimedia, information retrieval, distance education and supplementary teacher training.

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School systems

• Knowledge management• School needs Targetted different school levels• are starting points• Different systems for

• Daycare • Primary schools (SkoleIntra)• Vocational schools (ITsLearning)• Universities (ITsLearning)

• ERP systems • SIS systems

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Lifelong Learning

• Competence development • Teachers• Pupils• Headmasters• Blended Learning

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Services to educational sector

Centralresources

Infrastructure

Lifelong Learning

School systemsSchool

development

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UNI•C’s educational websites

UNI•C provides the educational sector with a number of on-line educational services.

The websites contain information about our educational products, and teachers and students can exchange views and expertise and also find links, news and inspiration for their daily work.

• Among our educational websites are:• EMU – educational portal• SkoleKom – mail and conferencing system• SkoDa – database service for schools in Denmark• SkoleIntra – a Intranet solution• eTwinning - International collaboration • ENIS European Network of Innovative schools - Best Practice in integration of ICT • Materialeplatformen – national repository of Danish learning resources• Special-subject Infoguide – links for learning


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• UNI-Login – common login to all our services

More than 750.000 administrators, teachers and students has a unique id and password. The UNI-Login gives access to: test by the ministry, online subscriptions by private publishers, video streaming by National Broadcasting Company (DR), local intranets at school level, local network access at schools and all services at UNI-C.

Most of the services offer single sign-on by UNI-Login.

www.uni-c.dk/produkter/undervisning/unilogin (only in Danish)


http://www.uni-c.dk/produkter/undervisning/unilogin


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• EMU.dk – Danish Educational Portal


EMU

Over-view

ContentCo-

operation

Platform

Dialogue

Tools


Structure of EMU

8 universes• Inschooling• Intermediate level• School leaving• Primary school teachers• Upper secondary education• Vocational education• Teacher training colleges• Adult vocational training

60 web services• SkoleKom: Mail and

conference system• SkoDa: Collection of content

databases• Infoguide: High quality links• Learning Resources

Repository: Catalogue of Danish learning resources

• …

www.emu.dk (in Danish only)

http://www.emu.dk/


EMU’s contents

• Subject-related themes• Educational sequences• Good examples and stories• Surveys• Links• News• Tools• Dialogue and exchange of experiences• Events and competitions


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• Developed in collaboration with and financed by the Danish Ministry of Education

• 1999: First version• 2002: Portal of universes,

CMS and external editors• 2003: Model for

cooperation, 100.000 unique users per week

• 2007: 200.000 users per week

EMU: The Danish Educational Portal


www.EMU.dk, Denmark’s Education Portal

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http://www.EMU.dk/


Find and share education resources

Resources: Text books, software, databases etc., ...From publishers, associations, museums, private companies…

Teacher to teacher: Sequences / lesson plans, experiments, work sheets, …

- About 20 thousand materials for education

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http://materialeplatform.emu.dk/


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• SkoleKom – mail and conferencing system

In SkoleKom all teachers and pupils in Denmark can exchange mails and debate via conferences. SkoleKom is used frequently across schools and municipalities, and is the conferencing system that is most frequently used by Danish schools.

Skolekom.emu.dk (in Danish only)

http://forside.skolekom.dk/


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• SkoDa – database service for schools in Denmark

SkoDa is a huge virtual library providing access to Denmark’s largest collection of articles, press photos, author portraits, and facts about everything from bikers to the constitution and much more. Via SkoDa both pupils and teachers have access to factual material, which they can use when doing their homework, assignments and project work.

Skoda.emu.dk (in Danish only)

http://www.sdbs.dk/


E-museum.dk

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http://e-museum.emu.dk/


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• Intranet solutions

UNI•C provides various intranet solutions to the educational community. The solutions support day-to-day training as well as administrative work at the institutions.

An example: www.skoleintra.dk (in Danish only)

http://www.skoleintra.dk/


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SkoleIntra – an intranet in development

• The Danish knowledge sharing and intranet system SkoleIntra from UNI-C

• More than 2.000 primary and lower secondary schools use SkoleIntra – that's more than 96% of the schools at that level.• Modul - Teachers Intra (only in Danish)

• Modul - Pupils Intra (only in Danish)

• Modul - The School Gate (only in Danish)

• Modul - Parents Intra (only in Danish)

http://demo.skoleintra.dk/li

http://demo.skoleintra.dk/pi


http://demo.skoleintra.dk/pi

http://demo.skoleintra.dk/


http://demo.skoleintra.dk/


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Professional development of teachers (in-service training) in the pedagogical use of ICT

• What do we want the teachers to learn?

• How do they learn this?

• How do we evaluate/assess if they have learned what they are supposed to?

EPICT - The European Pedagogical ICT Licence® encompasses these three elements, and the concept suggests an international standard

Collaboration with Korea/KERIS (in MoU)


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The EPICT portfolio

• The EPICT methodology

• The EPICT syllabus and course content

• The EPICT distributed course organisation

EPICT comprises • Content• Method• Technology • Processes

•Controlled internationally by the EPICT Group

•Controlled nationally by the EPICT country, enabling the national environment to obtain both recognition and accreditation for its professional development.

EPICT

THE EUROPEAN PEDAGOGICAL ICT LICENCE


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Key philosophy

• No ICT without a pedagogical rationale• ICT and the Internet as means, method and topic• Process-oriented and problem-based• School based (local collaboration)• Teacher teams (peer learning)• Facilitator guides, challenges and evaluates• Flexible approach - remember the 2 x 5%• Introductory day + e-learning via the Internet• Close and parallel to daily practice• School development• 5-6 months duration

EPICT



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Course content

A. Compulsory modules • The Internet• Texts and writing• Communicating electronically

C. Compulsory• School development and innovation

B. Optional modules (select 4)• Using digital images• Using spreadsheets• Using presentations• Producing educational websites• A head start with databases• Models and simulations• Layout and DTP• Educational software• ICT, learning styles and

classroom management• ICT as a compensatory tool• Games and learning• Reading and ICT• Data collection

EPICT



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Pupils’ ICT Licence

Pupils’ ICT Licence is a concept contributing to pupils developing up-to-date ICT and media competences through the integration of ICT and media in the individual subjects and in the interdisciplinary teaching


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ICT- and media competences

The key component of the concept is a description of final and intermediate goals for the ICT and media competences.

A guide has been developed for every intermediate goal suggesting how the pupils can work with the media.

The Pupils’ ICT Licence describes, how the teachers and pupils can evaluate and document the competence development of each pupil, in the subjects and in an interdisciplinary context.


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Competence elements

Operational competence

Comprehension competence

Reflexion competence


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Five key areas

• Learning processes

• Information collection

• Production and analysis

• Communication

• Computers & networks


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Evaluation and documentation

• Observation of problem solving

• Test of competences

• Assessment of ICT and media

products

• Dialogue with the pupils

• Digital portfolio

• Process description in a log

• Daily impression


eTwinning is an initiative of the European Commission supported by all member states

eTwinning: “The community for schools in Europe”

• It is therefore publicly-funded and is free to schools

• It aims to increase the number and quality of online collaborative school partnership.


The eTwinning action works with Affiliate partners• Work within a multilingual and multicultural society• Synergy between the partners projects • Together, the partners promote and enhance school collaboration

through the medium of ICT• Increase participation of schools in online collaborative projects• Provide the schools with easy access to

• collaboration networks• projects and activities• contacts, tools and services

• Promote and support the development of a collaborative project pedagogy

• Coordinate and cooperate with other public and private partners aiming at achieving similar objectives.


The eTwinning portal consist of 3 subportals• The open eTwinning portal www.etwinning.net.

Where everyone can see the registered schools, look on the individual projects and be inspired to eTwinning projects, and can register as en eTwinning teacher.

• The closed eTwinning Desktop. As a registered teacher you have access to the Orange eTwinning Desktop. Consist of partner finding tools and project tools.

• The project portal: TwinSpace, www.new-twinspace.etwinning.net. Build up your own portal with web 2.0 tools, invite teachers and pupils from all the participating classes.


eTwinning-portal in 23 language: etwinning.net

• 95.000 teachers from more than 50.000 schools in 32 countries.

• About 25.000 project between two or more schools.

• Find a partner class.

• Build a project

• Share ideas

• Exchange good practice

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Links and contact

This powerpoint presentation available via slideshare at: www.slideshare.net/ebbesch/

• Educational portal www.emu.dk• eTwinning portal www.etwinning.net• Contact data for NSS’s in most European countries: under ”Help”• EMU.dk etwinning.emu.dk• eTwinning NSS Denmark [email protected]• Ebbe Schultze [email protected]

eTwinning NSS Denmark <[email protected]>

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More information

Ebbe SchultzeChief Adviser

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Vermundsgade 52100 Copenhagen ØDenmark

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