The Centre for Educational Technology at Tallinn University was established in 1996 and focuses on research and development projects, teaching, and service provision related to educational technology. It has 15 staff members and a budget of 500,000 euros in 2009. It participates in international R&D projects funded by the EU and develops its own software for online learning and ePortfolios. Its research focuses on distributed learning environments and models for applying Web 2.0 technologies.

1. R&D projects Centre for Educational Technology www.htk.tlu.ee Centre for the Educational Technology Tallinn University 2009

2. Established 1996 in the Faculty of Education, in 2002 moved to Open University as e-learning service provider and in 2005 became the R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics Focusing on R&D, minor teaching and service provision Staff consists of 15 persons, including 6 researchers and 4 software developers; 3 researchers from abroad Financed only by research and development projects, total budget in 2009 was close to 500 000 EUR Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

3. Calibrate : FP6 IST STREP 2005-2008, Learning Resource Exchange ( calibrate.eun.org ), resulted with LeMill.net, a Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open learning resources iCamp : FP6 IST STREP 2005-2008, virtual campus based on open-source Web 2.0 tools, see icamp.eu iCoper : eContentPlus 2008-2010, best practice in re-using digital learning resources, competencies, learning designs eJump2.0 : LLP 2008-2010, training the university staff for applying Web 2.0 and ePortfolio in their work IntelLEO : FP7 IST STREP 2009-2011, Collaborative learning and knowledge building in Extended Organisation (intelleo.eu) S-TEAM : FP7 2009-2011, ICT in science education Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355 Partner in international R&D projects

4. Targeted research theme 2008-2012: Distributed learning environments, their interoperability and models of application (Web 2.0, semantic interoperability, ePortfolio) ETF grant 2008-2010: Self-directed learning in hybrid environments (ecology of narratives, mobile social comp.) Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Deer Leap in Georgia, SALT in Moldova (strategy development, teacher training) VAKO: Learner Language Corpus (partners: Institute of Estonian Language and Oulu University) Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355 National-level R&D projects

5. IVA - online learning environment www.htk.tlu.ee/iva DiPo - ePortfolio for teachers www.htk.tlu.ee/opah/in-english Krihvel - interactive e-learning environment for elementary school trac.htk.tlu.ee/krihvel ( krihvel.opetaja.ee ) Waramu – Learning Object Repository trac.htk.tlu.ee/waramu ( ait.opetaja.ee/MetadataPortal ) TATS – QTI-compliant question & test authoring tool PETS – QTI-compliant test delivery tool LeMill – http://lemill.net , a collaborative LO authoring tool IVA2 – personal learning environment, based on e-portfolio and Web 2.0 trac.htk.tlu.ee/iva2 Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355 Our software products

6. Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355 IVA2 (Dippler): distributed VLE

7. Mail / Skype +372 640 9355 htk.tlu.ee/htk/in-english Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355