European learning resource
community LeMill
Hans Põldoja
Tarmo Toikkanen

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http://lemill.net

What is LeMill?
• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing
open and free learning resources
• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP
project CALIBRATE
• Learning Mill

Designed for teachers
• Scenarios
• Design sessions
• User stories
• Prototypes

Design session results
• Teachers are
looking for
something else
than raw text
material
• Learning
resources can be
divided to
content, activities
and tools

Learning resources
Web page
Presentation
Exercise
PILOT

Progressive inquiry

Advanced editing
features

Embedding
• YouTube
• Google Video
• Google Maps
• SlideShare
• ...

Media pieces

References

Simple licensing scheme
• All resources created in LeMill are published under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
license
• Media pieces can be also under Creative
Commons Attribution license, GNU Free
Documentation License or in Public Domain

More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and
learning stories

LeMill as a social software
• Linking people by
location, skills and
interests
• Groups for
collaborative
authoring
• Group forums

LeMill in numbers

Czech Republic
Members 35 PolandRomania
Switzerland
Venezuela
Turkey
Australia
Peru
UnitedFrance
United Kingdom
SpainBrazil
Netherlands
Germany
Norway
Cyprus
Greece
Colombia
China
Slovenia
States
Italy
Canada
Belgium
Austria 8 65321
321
1776332
Finland 2923
40
Lithuania
58
2000
Georgia
No country specified 64
Estonia
Hungary Hungary
Georgia 99 1720
Lithuania
Finland
Czech Republic
Austria 1500
1500 Poland No country specified
Spain 1047
Belgium Estonia
Canada 305
Italy
United States
Slovenia 1137
China
Colombia
1000 Greece
Cyprus
Norway
Germany 798
Netherlands
Brazil 695
Romania 597 618
United Kingdom
France 524
500 Peru 450
Australia 396
Turkey 344
Venezuela
Switzerland 241
155
173 173
81 89 117 147
65 97
38 49 52 57 65 71 73
4 5
27 6
30 40
10 15 16 26 26
11
0

Visitors from Czech Republic

--
Web pages pt
rusl
fi nl
ltde pl1
sv 85 42
16 4 3 1
61
hu 20
31
700
-- ka 657
et 71
cs
et 595
en
224
ka
525
hu en
sv 101
lt
de
fi
ru
pl
cs 373
105
350
nl
sl 276
290
pt 259
fr
213
190
175 161
117
95
49
8 13 16 16
1 2 2 6
0

cs
Collections 4 ptno
nl
da
ka
ru es 1
de
hu 1
32 21
21
fi 9 54
400 lt 11
--
15
en
352
et et --
lt 31 160
fi 307
300 de
hu
ru
cs
es
en 212
ka
100
200 pt
da
nl 160
147
no
fr 118
bg 108
98
100
81
70
54
33
17 19 22 22
11 11 15
6
0

Other resources
PILOTs
Exercises
Methods
Presentations
Tools
References
Forum threads

LeMill competition in
Estonia

LeMill competition in Estonia
• Organized by Tiger Leap Foundation in
November–December 2007
• 32 teachers submitted their teaching and learning
stories
• Two first prizes: “Pronaunciation of r-letter” and
“Media”

Future plans

Future plans
• lemill.net will continue to be a free service after
the end of CALIBRATE
• The development will continue and feedback is
welcome
• New features: Powerpoint and Word import,
personalized homepage
• ...

Thank You!
• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
• tarmo.toikkanen@taik.fi