eQNet
Quality Network for a European
http://lre.eun.org
Learning Resource Exchange
Comenius Multilateral Network
Project managed by European Schoolnet
(EUN)

eQNET
• Supports EUN’s working group on Learning
Resource Exchange (LRE) to applying “travel
http://lre.eun.org
well’ criteria and CC licenses
• Provides a network of teachers:
• improving quality of content and metadata in national
repositories
• identifying ‘travel well’ resources
• Improving (translating) metadata

SCOPE
• EUN plus 9 Ministries of Education
– BMUKK (AT),
http://lre.eun.org
– DGIDC (PT),
– DZS (CZ),
– INDIRE (IT),
– ITC (LT),
– KC (BE/NL),
– MS SR (SK),
– Skolverket (SE),
– UDIR (NO)

LRE Quality
• Quality of resources in both CALIBRATE and
MELT problematic!
http://lre.eun.org
• “much more quality control is needed in
future from contributing LRE repositories.”
• “feeling that content providers were ‘filling’
the repository with a lot of (particularly text-
based) resources, i.e. quantity not quality.”

Key Issue
• Quality of content in the Learning
Resource Exchange (LRE) can only
http://lre.eun.org
be as good as the underlying
content/metadata provided by MoE
and other content partners from
their own repositories and
collections

IPR
• Infringement of IPR
– e.g. CC licenses being added to third
http://lre.eun.org
party resources – BBC and others
• MoE adding Non-Commercial CC
license almost by default - problem of
remixing

Quality of LRE content?
http://lre.eun.org The theorem of the tangent quadrangles and the inversion of the theorem
• Quality of LRE content?
BBC looduse lehekuljed - Estonian resource
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5

http://lre.eun.org
Broken Links

http://lre.eun.org Content that ‘travels well’

http://lre.eun.org Content that ‘travels well’?

http://lre.eun.org Content that ‘travels well’??

http://lre.eun.org Content that ‘travels well’??

http://lre.eun.org Content that ‘travels well’???

eQNet Objectives
• LRE WG examines pedagogical, technical and IPR
issues that impact on 'travel well' criteria
http://lre.eun.org
• Their work is informed by regular feedback from a
network of teachers and others involved in the
practical application of these quality criteria
• The eQNet network will also be extended to include
stakeholders in relevant Comenius and other content-
related projects that will benefit from project results,
including participation in an innovative Community of
Practice focused on quality issues

Using resources across contexts
http://lre.eun.org
• Existing literature and
studies cites many
barriers
• Does it exist?
Vuorikari, R., Koper, R,. (2009)
Evidence of cross-boundary use and
reuse of digital educational resources.

Users from different countries
http://lre.eun.org using the same “travel well”resource
Resource that
«Travels well»
Austria
Hungary
Finland

Resources connected through tags
Resources with user
Tag tag «interactive»
«interactive»
Vuorikari, R., & Ochoa, X. (2009). Exploratory Analysis of the Main Characteristics
of Tags and Tagging of Educational Resources in a Multi-lingual Context. Journal of
Digital Information, 10(2). http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/447.

Content from providers connected through tags
http://lre.eun.org
Tag «optics»
Resource provider

Previous work on “travel well”
http://lre.eun.org From scarcity of resources..

Previous work on “travel well”
http://lre.eun.org ..to abundance of resources”

http://lre.eun.org Previous work on “travel well”

http://lre.eun.org Previous work on “travel well”

http://lre.eun.org Previous work on “travel well”

http://lre.eun.org Previous work on “travel well”

http://lre.eun.org Previous work on “travel well”

Current questions on “travel well”
Is it related to the resource?
- e.g. related to the granularity of the resource,
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size of the resource, type of the resource
- Can these be filtered through metadata?
Is it related to the context where the
resource is used?
- e.g. the country where the resource is used
- Can these be filtered through previous
bookmarks?

Current questions on “travel well”
• Is “travel well” a teachers “gut feeling”?
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• Is “travel well” a combination of things:
- resource properties,
- their use in a new context
• Can “Travel well” qualities be expresses
using a rating? Or is it a level or a scale of
potential “travel well”?

WP1 Project Management
• Project Management (EUN)
http://lre.eun.org
• Riina Vuorikari - Project Manager
• Sylvia Hartinger - LRE portal
• Leo Guilfoyle – Administration, reporting

WP2 Develop TW quality criteria
• ITC – LT
http://lre.eun.org
• We need to agree what criteria to use
• TW criteria and project progress will be
reviewed by LRE WG twice a year
• EUN prepares a short discussion document
for each meeting and annual status report on
TW issues in project and externally

WP2 Work in next 6 months
“Travel Well” criteria version1
• 31-Dec-09
http://lre.eun.org
• P3, Lt
State of the Art report
• 28-Feb-10
• P3, Lt

WP3 TW teacher network
• DZS - CZ
MoE identify teachers by M2
http://lre.eun.org
•
• EUN appoints 2-3 teachers
• Identify and enrich tw resources
– Year 1 90
– Year 2 120
– Year 3 140
• TOTAL >3500 by end of project
• LRE showcase of tw resources on LRE
• Guidelines on tw resources

WP3 Work in next 6 months
Teachers manual
• 31-Dec-09
http://lre.eun.org
• P7, Cz
Initial “Travel well” showcase
- Cz, P7
- 31-Mar-10
- How many resources by partner?
- Half of 90?

WP4 Dissemination
• EUN
Project web site
http://lre.eun.org
•
• Dissemination & Use Plan
• Project community
• Community of Practice for Comenius and other
projects (implemented in WP5)
• LRE newsletter on quality

WP4 Work in next 6 month
• Project website 31-Oct-09
Brochure and presentation 31-Oct-09
http://lre.eun.org
•
• Dissemination and use plan 31-Dec-09
• A news letter 30-Sept-10

WP5 Quality Assurance
• Italy
How do we ensure tw criteria are consistently
http://lre.eun.org
•
applied by everyone?
• Independent group of teachers review 10-
15% of tw resources annually
• Monitor other projects/work on quality
assessment of resources
• Provide “a critical self-assesssment” of eQNet

WP5 Work in next 6 months
Quality strategy plan
• 28-Feb-10
http://lre.eun.org
• P2, It

WP6 Exploitation of Results
• EUN
Aim is that all LRE Associate Partners use
http://lre.eun.org
•
the tw criteria
• A Community of Practice for Comenius
projects and others animated by EUN
– June 2010
• Annual seminar for LLP and other projects
– Dec 2010