Scientix and eQNet are EU-funded projects that support sharing open educational resources. The Learning Resource Exchange is a federation of repositories that provides over 200,000 open educational resources in more than 30 languages. eQNet established the Travel Well criteria to evaluate resources for their ability to be reused across countries based on factors like language independence and clear licensing. Scientix focuses on STEM resources and has a translation feature to promote the dissemination of teaching practices across Europe.

1. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Premysl Velek – Victor J. Perez Rubio
European Schoolnet
Sharing Open Educational Resources in Multilanguage
Repositories – the Learning Resource Exchange and Scientix
LINQ 2013 Conference, Rome, Italy, 17 May 2013

2. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Supporting the use of
of technology in teaching and
learning
Exchange and interoperability
of digital learning resorces
www.eun.org
Partnership of 30 Ministries of Education in Europe
Mission:
raise the quality of
education
in EuropePromote the
European dimension
in schools and education

3. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Learning resource exchange
http://lreforschools.eun.org/
Federation of repositories – service enabling schools
and teachers to find educational content from many
different countries and providers :
● More than 50 providers open to both public and
private sectors
● Over 200,000 OERs covering all educational fields
(K-12)
● More than 30 languages

4. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
eQNet - Quality Network for European
Learning Resource Exchange (2009 – 2012)
http://eqnet.eun.org/
Supported by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme
(LLP)
Consortium: EUN and nine Ministries of education in Europe
Goal:
● Enable sharing of Open Educational Resources on a large scale
● Streamline their evaluation
Result: Travel Well criteria
A set of metadata, describing OERs that allow for identifying digital
learning content that has a high potential to be re-used across
national and linguistic boudaries.

5. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Travel Well
Travel Well criteria – methodology:
Expert teachers assessed learning objects in LRE for their travel well
potential.
Analysis of the assessments:
● What criteria teachers considered most relevant?
● Were there some criteria difficult to apply or deemed less relevant?
Result :
● Travel Well criteria are suitable for pratical evaluation and can
noticeably reduce the subjectivity inherent in expert evaluation.
● Showcase of 3,500 Travel Well resources, another 2,000 added
since then

6. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Travel Well criteria
1. Translational topics
2. Knowledge of specific language is not needed (language
independence)
3. Stored as a file type that is usable with generally available
software
4. Methodological support for teachers in not needed
5. Intuitive and easy to use (no complex operating instructions)
6. Interactivity
7. Clear licence status

7. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Learning resource exchange
http://lreforschools.eun.org/
Federation of repositories – service enabling schools and teachers to
find educational content from many different countries and providers :
● More than 50 providers
- open to both public and private sectors
● Over 200,000 OERs covering all educational fields (K-12)
● More than 30 languages

8. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Scientix resource repository
http://www.scientix.eu/web/guest/resources
Resources in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)
Content providers: STEM education projects funded by EU
programmes or by various (inter)national initiatives:
●
200 STEM projects carried out int he past 10 years
●
Over 600 learning objects
Common core: support of inquiry based learning (IBSE) and
the use of ICT in science eduation

9. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Scientix Translation on demand
●
Bottom-up approach – user driven localisation of OERs
●
Localisation to EU official languages
From May 2010 to November 2012:
●
1,071 requests
●
440 of them accepted
Criteria: more than one request for translation of a given
OER

10. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Scientix Translation on demand
●
Bottom-up approach – user driven localisation of OERs
●
Localisation to EU official languages
From May 2010 to November 2012:
●
1,071 requests
●
440 of them accepted
Criteria: more than one request for translation of a given OR

11. Scientix is financed under the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research and Development, eQNet was supported by
the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme.
Scientix Translation on demand v. Travel Well
Travel Well:
to stimulate mutual exchange of OERs between both producers
and end-users
●
Quick and objective evaluation of large number of OERs
●
Easy uptake by third parties
Scientix Translation on demand:
to disseminate and promote good teaching practice in STEM
education (IBSE)
●
Bound to subject-specific repositories with clearly defined set of
good teaching practice
●
Require active user community
●
Specific funding needed

12. Dr Agueda Gras-Velazquez, agueda.gras@eun.org
Scientix project manager
Dr Elena Shulman, elena.shulman@eun.org
EQNet project manager
Přemysl Velek, premysl.velek@eun.org
Scientix portal manager
Victor J. Perez Rubio, victor.perez@eun.org
Scientix Translation on demand coordinator
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