Share.TEC - an overview of the
project
Giorgio Olimpo, Stefania Bocconi
ITD-CNR, Italy
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TEACHER EDUCATION TODAY
• A treasure of competencies, resources, cultural specificities within each box
• Barriers preventing exchange, sharing, reuse
• Meeting what is different: not only saving efforts but a powerful factor
of (multi)cultural growth
• Many treasures waiting to be unlocked
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Share.TEC PURPOSE
unlock teacher education build a teacher
resources & expertise education hub
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bridge cultural
connect teacher
differences
education networks
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Share.TEC FEATURES
User Capable of growing
adaptive (extensible,
self-enhancing…)
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Sustainable Not only TE contents,
people too
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ADAPTIVITY
Multilingual/
Based on
multicultural
users’ profiles
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Individual Collective
history-sensitive History-
sensitive
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THE SYSTEM CAN GROW AND IMPROVE
Harvesting User enhancements
from “foreign” repositories (resources, experiences,
(interoperability) ranking…)
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Self-enhancement of system Nurture expansion of
performance user networks
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CONNECTING PEOPLE
Connections based on Queries on
user profiles user profiles
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Bookmark
Connections based on
sharing
user histories
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FACTORS INFLUENCING SUSTAINABILITY
Open contents
+ System can grow
Commercial contents and improve
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Market policies Fostering user
communities
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A SCENARIO
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Actor: Prof. Francisca Pedroso,
teacher educator
Context: Madrid School of
Education
Situation: New course “Technology
Enhanced Learning in
Primary School”
Needs: Find suitable resources
(TE- focused, authoritative,
media-rich, reusable)
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The difficult path of finding TE resources
• Locate & browse different web sites in search of
TE resources (multiple registrations)
• Different languages, references to “alien”
educational contexts/education systems,
generic terminology, sketchy metadata
• Poor/unsuitable results
• Lose track of results obtained in various web
sites (dispersion, overload)
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Finding TE resources in Share.TEC
•• Single access point dedicated specifically to TE
Single access point dedicated specifically to TE
resources
resources
•• preferred working language
preferred working language
•• TE terminology
TE terminology
•• location of resources from “foreign” education systems
location of resources from “foreign” education systems
•• suitable TE-focused metadata
suitable TE-focused metadata
•• Personalised services for accurate search results
Personalised services for accurate search results
•• Pool of TE resources enriched with experiential
Pool of TE resources enriched with experiential
annotation
annotation
•• Adding own resources
Adding own resources
•• Peer recommendations
Peer recommendations
•• Bookmark sharing, peer contacts, networking,
Bookmark sharing, peer contacts, networking,
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The Share.TEC vision
Unified access to TE-specific resources
User-focused services
A core of tested TE content
A hub for EU TE communities
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