Creating and sharing OER

Creating and sharing OER in primary and secondary education: challenges and strategies Francesc Busquets [email_address] Educational Network of Catalonia (XTEC)

Public Education in Catalonia
About 3.000 public schools, 10 5 teachers, 10 6 students
Two official languages: Spanish and Catalan
New Education Law (2006), focused on the work on key competences
Main challenges: multicultural integration, improvement of academic results

ICT in Education in Catalonia
Official program started in 1986
XTEC: Public Telematic Educational Network, offering Internet services since 1995 to all Catalan teachers and schools.
Creation and sharing of educational materials by teachers, stimulated by in-service teacher training
Promotion of free software and collaborative projects
1x1 plan for secondary education, started in 2009

OER repositories in the XTEC (I)
Open source authoring tools for teachers and associated repositories:
JClic
Quaderns Virtuals (Virtual Notebooks)
La Prestatgeria (The bookshelf)
alexandria: Moodle and IWB resources
edu365.cat: student's portal
edu3.cat: video and audio productions

JClic
Open source (GPL) platform for activities in diverse modes (relating, ordering, identifying, classifying...)
Made with Java
Same application, several delivery formats: Applet, Stand-alone frame, Java WebStart application

JClic collaborative project
ClicZone: open space for collaboration and exchange of learning objects between educators
http://clic.xtec.cat
Library with more than 1.200 projects and 200.000 activities, in different languages

Virtual Notebooks (QV)
Implementation of the IMS QTI standard
Authoring tool for teachers
Control of play conditions and student's answers
Integrated in Moodle
Library with 200 notebooks created by teachers
http://clic.xtec.cat/qv

Alexandria
Space to share Moodle and Interactive Whiteboard resources created by teachers
Based on the OpenLearn Moodle repository http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
Open source development
http://alexandria.xtec.cat

La Prestatgeria (The bookshelf)
Creation, edition and sharing of digital books
http://phobos.xtec.cat/llibres
Exports to SCORM, PDF and other formats
Open source development, based on MyScrapbook

edu365.cat
Started in 2001
Digital learning resources for students
More than 15.000 interactive educational objects
> 12.000 hours of interaction
Student's desktops with specific tools
http://www.edu365.cat

edu3.cat
Media content portal with more than 10.000 video and audio clips
Joint project between the Catalan Public Broadcasting Corporation and the Department of Education
Free to use in classrooms
http://edu3.cat

OER repositories in the XTEC (II)
Metadata repositories and associated networks and search engines:
Merlí: Bank of LOM metadata, search engine and structured resource organizer
Agrega: Authoring tool and federated network of SCORM resources (Spanish project - Catalan node in progress)
LRE: European network of OER metadata repositories

Merlí
LOM metadata about 10.000 OER
Search engine and structured resource organizer
Teachers can enrich metadata with comments and ratings
open source development
http://merli.xtec.cat

Agrega
Project leaded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and the Regional Governments
Network of repositories of SCORM objects
Cataloged with LOM.es, a specific application profile of LOM
Open source development
http://www.proyectoagrega.es

Learning Resource Exchange
Project leaded by European Schoolnet
Network of repositories of OER metadata
Fruit of the european projects Celebrate, MELT and LRE
Teachers can enrich metadata
http://lreforschools.eun.org

Weaknesses and challenges (I)
Irregular quality of resources
Copyright issues in assets used in some OER created by teachers: lack of knowledge about legal issues
Resources with poor or null metadata
Some repositories have oversized metadata profiles

Weaknesses and challenges (II)
Dispersion of formats and publishing platforms
Interoperability issues (also using standards!)
Lack of feedback. Users can comment and rate resources, but usually don't do it

Our current strategies and actions (I)
Reinforcement of Merli as a common pool of metadata and central search engine
Linking of networks and repositories, allowing extended and specialized search of resources
Simplification of user interfaces and metadata mandatory schemes
Tagging must be easy for teachers

Our current strategies and actions (II)
Official recognition of the work made by authors of OER (awards, featuring...)
Inclusion into in-service teacher training programs of information about legal issues, copyright, licensing and rights and duties related to OER
Use of Moodle as a central point of delivery and interaction with OER

Thank you!

Creating and sharing OER

by Francesc Busquets on Apr 20, 2010

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