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

Share.TEC: Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community Jeffrey Earp (ITD-CNR) Third EdReNe Expert Workshop Engaging Users & Producers Linz, Austria – 18-21 November, 2009

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…

Share.TEC – the project…
Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community
eContent plus programme
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)
universities, research inst., schools of education ed. technology developers educational publisher e Content plus

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

Teacher Educators learners Practising teachers practitioners Inital Teacher Education (ITE) Cont. Prof. Development (CPD) Student teachers Teacher Educators & trainers learners practitioners

End users: Share.TEC’s primary targets student teacher practising teacher teacher educator (individual / institution)

Share.TEC stakeholders & secondary users
Educational repositories
TE institutions
Associations and communities of teacher educators & teachers
Education ministries
Publishers and publisher associations
Content providers

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

In Europe we have this…

… and we want to have this!

Provides unified access to TE resources from established repositories and individual users (federated aggregation of metadata)
Offers specialized search functions and personalized, adaptive user tools
Supports TE communities based on sharing of resources and experiences

1.1 - What resources?
1.2 - What metadata?
1.3 - How are these collected?
1. Unified access to…

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

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

addressing linguistic and cultural issues (based on an ontological approach)
Teacher Education Ontology 1.2 - What metadata?

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?

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

3. sharing resources and experiences…
ratings
tagging
social networking capabilities (groups, etc.)
annotation about resource use in specific TE contexts (profile-related)

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

prototype

Where is Share.TEC in the EdRe landscape?

EdReNe SoA – some keyword counts EDReNE SoA Report: For almost 100% of EDRENE members, teachers are the primary target 382 -
learn* (…er, …ers, …ing)
243 -
teach* (…er, …ers, …ing)
professional development teacher education/training 4 - 9 -

SoA – repositoires with a stated teacher training or teacher education dimension - videos for professional development and classroom use Teachers.tv (UK) - curriculum and training materials for teachers Scoilnet (IE) - teachers’ pedagogical experiences (with digital resources) Gold (IT) - online in-service teacher training courses Opettaja.tv (FI) - descriptions of teaching and learning methods and tools LeMill (EE) - primary & secondary education, teacher training , adult ed. KlasCement (BE)

Engaging users….in Share.TEC
focus groups - 2009-2010
training sessions (teacher educators, teachers) - summer 2010
user-stakeholder events - 2009-2010
personalised services

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 )

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)

Thanks…come and see us
project website http://www.share-tec.eu/
contact [email_address]
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