1) The new initiatives in HTK: Finnish-Estonian educational cloud 2) Samsung Digital Turn 3) IKTP study on transition from university to working life

1. 
Towards educational cloud
Mart Laanpere, head of the Centre for Educational Technology

2. Current situation in Estonia
 Koolielu.ee (since 2009): repository of teacher-created learning
resources, more than half of Estonian teacher are registered
users, QA (subject moderators and QA checklist)
 LeMill.net: 50K users, 70K learning resources, shutting down
 Digital Exams: EIS prototype was received with mixed feelings
 Textbook publishers are experimenting with various e-textbook
formats (ePub, Web-based, apps, eLessons, LCMS)
 Majority of actively used digital learning resources are scattered
around Web 2.0 (blogs, wikis, LearningApps, Khan Academy,
Kahoot, Weebly, HotPotatoes etc)

3. Unsolved issues
 Scaling up the use, re-mix and re-use, interoperability
 Metadata creation and collection from various repos
 LO quality assurance, curriculum coverage
 Teachers want to use hundreds different authoring tools
 Majority of UG content is hidden, locked and hard to find
 IPR violations, combining proprietary content and OER
 Supporting innovative pedagogical scenarios

4. Innovative pedagogical scenarios
 Majority of available digital learning resources follow
the conservative pedagogy: presentation-practice-test
 Innovative pedagogical scenarios from LEARNMIX
project (re-conceptualizing e-textbook):
 Flipped classroom
 Project-based learning
 Problem-based learning
 Inquiry-based learning
 Game-based learning
Http://learnmix.tlu.ee

5. What is being done elsewhere
 Slovenia: eSchoolBag
 Finland:
 EduCloud: Basaari,KnowHow, ShowMe
 Dikaios Cloud
 eOppi remix-textbooks in PedaNet
 Ubiikki: textbook design & repository service
 USA: OpenEd.io
 Estonia: Astra eTextbooks (Avita), iPbooks (Koolibri), Wordpress
(Maurus)

6. Preliminary analysis for DLR Cloud
 During July – August 2014 we conducted interviews (30+) with:
 Teachers, school principals, educational technologists
 Textbook publishers, other content providers (EIS, KhanAcademy)
 Online gradebook providers
 Metadata& ontotlogy experts
 Goals (inputs for tender on developing the EduCloud):
 Requirements specification
 Personas, scenarios
 Clickable prototype

7. Educational cloud: interoperable services
Content
Core: ID,
users, rights
SIS
Administrative
Learning
Koolielu.ee
TAAT.edu.ee OAuth
eKool.eu,
Stuudium
EHIS
EIS
…
DLR Cloud
BYOD PLE Moodle Eliademy
…
… …

8. Digital Learning Resource cloud

9. DLR cloud: goals
 Metadata harvesting:
 Automatic, every 24 hrs from multiple repositories (incl. Finnish)
 Content provider responsible for interfacing and metadata quality
 Creating collections from DLR:
 Powerful metadata-based search and recommendation
 Collections created by teachers for students, for learners
 Shareable on multiple end-user platforms
 Learning analytics:
 Tracking the activities of users (TinCan API, LRS)
 Recommender systems