The document discusses mEducator, a best practice network funded by the European Commission to compare solutions for sharing medical educational content across learning management systems. It presents two approaches: mEducator 2.0, which uses loosely coupled LMSs via mashup technologies, and mEducator 3.0, which links LMSs via linked services and publishes educational resource metadata as linked data. The goal is to enable discovery, retrieval, rating, and repurposing of educational content irrespective of the LMS used.

1. Panos Bamidis Assist. Prof. Medical Informatics-Medical Education Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece To 2.0 or to 3.0 ? Contemporary Challenges for Medical Education from the mEducator project co-funded by the European Commission e Content plus programme http://www.meducator.net

3. mEducator Partners 1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 2 University of Cyprus CY Technology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 3 Democritus University of Thrace GR Content provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 4 MEDTING Medical Exchange Limited IR Content provider, Technology provider, Dissemination 5 Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert 6 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User 7 Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User 8 Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation 9 University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation 10 St George's Hospital Medical School UK Standardisation Body, Pedagogy Expert, Technology and Content Provider 11 Succubus Interactive FR Content and Technology Provider 12 The Open University UK Technology Provider 13 Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider 14 European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation

8. Personal Blogs Class Discussion Forums eTrace – Graphics annotation based lessons

9. Serious Games Clinical cases Virtual Patients

11. Describing Repurposing histories: Metadata schema extensions Luxemburg, 26/02/2009

12. Metadata Scheme Overview Analyse existing standards Relevant fields from existing standards Identify additional pedagogical information Explore requirements for repurposed content Fields to describe repurposing history Fields describing additional pedagogical information Identify any additional critical information Additional fields mEducator Metadata Scheme

15. The mEducator Learning Resource Space -Giordano et al, Developing controlled vocabularies for educational resources sharing: a case study,’ -Mistopoulou et al, Connecting medical educational resources to the Linked Data cloud: the mEducator RDF Schema, store & API; both in Proc. of 1st Int. Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age (Linked Learning 2011, in ESWC2011)

17. Social networks of people & … resources Kaldoudi et al, Social Networking for Learning Object Repurposing in Medical Education", The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare, vol. 7(4), pp. 233–243, 2009. Kaldoudi et al, Depicting educational content repurposing context and inheritance. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2011 Jan;15(1):164-70. tag 1 tag 4 tag 2 tag 3 tag 5 tag 6 tag 8 tag 7 LO 4 repurposed from repurposed to repurposed to LO 3 LO 2 LO 1 LO 6 LO 5 LO 7 LO 8 author 1 author 2 author 3

18. Google-Mapping histories of a resource Konstantinidis et al, Geotagged Repurposed Educational Content through mEducator Social Network to Enhance Biomedical Engineering Education”, In Proceedings of 12th MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING, MEDICON 2010, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

20. Content sharing: envisaged solutions

22. mEducator 2.0 Overview http://www.meducator2.net

23. Example: moodle at AUTH and its mEducator 2.0 mashup

24. OpenLabyrinth at AUTH and its mEducator2.0 mashup

27. meducator

28. http://www.meducator3.net

29. mEducator 3.0 moodle

30. mEducator 3.0 moodle Description of a resource according to mEducator Scheme

31. Local and Global specialised searches Search results from all the repositories that contribute to mEducator project

32. mEducator 3.0 Drupal

33. mEducator 3.0 Drupal mEducator 3.0 Drupal

34. mEducator 3.0 Metamorphosis+

35. mEducator 3.0 Openlabyrinth

36. mEducator 3.0 Openlabyrinth

37. Special thanks to all mEducator partners! Aristotle University of Thessaloniki University of Cyprus Democritus University of Thrace MEDTING Medical Exchange Limited Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca Université Nice Sophia Antipolis Medical University Plovdiv Università degli studi di Catania University of Helsinki St George's Hospital Medical School Succubus Interactive The Open University Coventry University European Cervical Cancer Association