Open educational resources projects at
Tallinn University
Hans Põldoja

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What are open educational
resources?
• Open access
• Open license
• Open format
• Open source
(Schaffert & Geser 2008)

OER authoring tools and
repositories
• LeMill — web community for collaborative
authoring of open educational resources
• TATS — question and test authoring system
• Krihvel — learning environment and learning
resource authoring tool for elementary schools
• Waramu — federated learning object repository
• Koolielu — national educational portal based on
elgg

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 Lesson plan
Presentation School project
Exercise PILOT

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

Members
6000
5265
4708
4500
2959
3000 2796
2337
1698
1500
867
666
465 414
343 359 364 374
242 273
65 89 105 111
27
4 5 18
0
Jul 2006 Jan 2007 Jul 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Jan 2009
Estonia Total

Members by specified country
20%
36%
5%
5%
5%
11%
18%
Estonia Georgia Hungary Finland Czech Republic Lithuania Other

Other OER software
developed at TLU

TATS

Krihvel

Krihvel

Waramu

Open courses and
Wikiversity

http://www.wikiversity.org

Learning content
link and tag
Course wiki and blog
link and tag link
link link
Student blogs
RSS

References
• Schaffert, S., Geser, G. (2008, February 29). Open Educational Resources and
Practices. eLearning Papers, 7. Retrieved April 3, 2009, from http://
www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media14907.pdf

Thank You!
• hans.poldoja@tlu.ee
• http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja/