UP2U, BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND
UNIVERSITIES THROUGH INFORMAL EDUCATION:
THE FIRST MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT/ THE FIRST
PILOT TRAINING IN GREECE
GRNET, Up2University
Consortium
Ilias Hatzakis
hatzakis@grnet.gr
3/7/2018 EDULEARN 2018, Palma de Mallorca 1
Presented By:
Antonio Vieira de Castro
ISEP, Up2University Consortium
avc@isep.ipp.pt

Up2University
• European project
• Next generation digital learning ecosystem
• Merges technology with pedagogy
• Objective: bridge the gap between secondary and higher
education
• Active for 1,5 year now
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Minimum Viable Product

Up2U NGDLE caracteristics
• Federated access (SSO)
• Learning management system (Moodle)
• Sync’n’share functionality (Owncloud)
• Storage provision (EOS storage)
• Open multimedia content (eduOER)
• Learning interactive content (H5P)
• Rich Notebooks (SWAN/ Jupyter)
• Authoring tools (SelCont/ Personal Recorder)
• Native repository (Dspace)
• Real time communication (Knockplop)
• Learning analytics (2nd phase)
• Project based learning and end-to-end learning scenarios
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• In February 2018, the 1st MVP was released, delivered and
tested to the 1st pilot country, Greece. 70 teachers from 8
Greek pilot schools were trained, during four 4-hour face to
face courses, to the use of the NGDLE. They created their
own content and courses on the platform, gave their
feedback and evaluation and are ready to use it for creating
an environment for creative student projects across Greece.
• In the paper we explain the functionality of the NGDLE and
present the feedback and evaluation from the first user
experience.
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Number of ICT training
courses that teachers have
completed in the last 5 years
0
1
2
3
4
5
Number of
Number of Pedagogical
training courses that teachers
have completed in the last 5
years
0
1
2
3
4
Number of

Four 4-hour classes/ NTUA premises
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Creation of moodle courses….
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…through federated access…
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…Using all kinds of tools like eduOER…
Provider: Photodentro
Search Box: Acropolis
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Repositories available today
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Cocoon: Collections de Corpus Oraux Numeriques
DLESE: Digital Library for Earth System Education
FGV: Repositório Digital FGV
LB: Language Box
MANIOC: Digital library on the Caribbean, the
Amazon, the Guyana Plateau
NE_RESOURCES --> Natural Europe (Resources Set)
ORGANIC_EDUNET --> Organic Edunet
PHAIDRA: Permanent Hosting, Archiving and
Indexing of Digital Resources and Assets
SERPENT --> SERPENT Image & Video Database
UAL --> University of Arts London
UNSPOD --> University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Stanford University - EN
Campus Do Mar – Vigo University – ES
National Distance Education Repo – ES
University of Leon - ES
FCCN – Educast Repository – POR
ELTE Hungary – Digital Institutional Repo – HU
Photodentro – EL
University of Crete - EL
Parntnership for advanced computing - EN
MAOR – Metadata and Object Repo – IS
GSPACE: Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs
CIRcle: University of British Columbia's Information

…CERNBOX…
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…H5P interactive content….
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….and many more ….16/08/18 14
….Dspace Up2U….

Thank you!
www.up2university.eu
https://learn.test.up2university.eu
hatzakis@grnet.gr
Presented By:
Antonio Vieira de Castro
ISEP, Up2University Consortium
avc@isep.ipp.pt