The document discusses the creation and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) in primary and secondary education in Catalonia, highlighting challenges such as multicultural integration, academic performance, and issues with resource quality and copyright. It outlines various platforms and initiatives like the XTEC network, which offers tools and repositories for teachers, and addresses current strategies to enhance the quality and accessibility of educational materials. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of proper metadata management, user feedback, and recognition for resource creators.

1. Creating and sharing OER in primary and secondary education: challenges and strategies Francesc Busquets [email_address] Educational Network of Catalonia (XTEC)

2. Public Education in Catalonia About 3.000 public schools, 10 5 teachers, 10 6 students

3. Two official languages: Spanish and Catalan

4. New Education Law (2006), focused on the work on key competences

5. Main challenges: multicultural integration, improvement of academic results

6. ICT in Education in Catalonia Official program started in 1986

7. XTEC: Public Telematic Educational Network, offering Internet services since 1995 to all Catalan teachers and schools.

8. Creation and sharing of educational materials by teachers, stimulated by in-service teacher training

9. Promotion of free software and collaborative projects

10. 1x1 plan for secondary education, started in 2009

11. OER repositories in the XTEC (I) Open source authoring tools for teachers and associated repositories: JClic

12. Quaderns Virtuals (Virtual Notebooks)

13. La Prestatgeria (The bookshelf) alexandria: Moodle and IWB resources

14. edu365.cat: student's portal

15. edu3.cat: video and audio productions

16. JClic Open source (GPL) platform for activities in diverse modes (relating, ordering, identifying, classifying...)

17. Made with Java

18. Same application, several delivery formats: Applet, Stand-alone frame, Java WebStart application

19. JClic collaborative project ClicZone: open space for collaboration and exchange of learning objects between educators http://clic.xtec.cat Library with more than 1.200 projects and 200.000 activities, in different languages

20. Virtual Notebooks (QV) Implementation of the IMS QTI standard