Presentation of "Digital School", held during the 10th Scientix Projects Networking Event, Brussels, 26 February 2016

1. Computer Technology
Institute & Press “DIOPHANTUS”
Digital School
Interactive textbooks, Photodentro Educational Repositories and National
Aggregator, and the Digital Educational Platform “e-me”
Elina Megalou & Christos Kaklamanis
Presenter: Nikos Palavitsinis

2. “Digital School Platform,
Interactive Books, and
Learning Object Repository”
Coordinated and
implemented by CTI
Duration
5 years (2010-2015)
Budget
9.5 M euro
~ 200 teachers, academic
professors, pedagogical
and domain experts,
~ 80 engineers and
technical personnel

3. Digital Educational Content (http://dschool.edu.gr)

4. Digital School: Content-based e-Services
1. Interactive Textbooks (ebooks.edu.gr)
The official portal of the Greek Ministry of Education
for hosting and delivering digital school textbooks
2. The Photodentro Content Repository Infrastructure
(photodentro.edu.gr)
An ecosystem of educational content repositories
and the Greek national aggregator for school
educational content
3. The Digital Educational Platform e-me (eme.edu.gr)
A Personal Learning Environment for pupils and
teachers
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5. Interactive Textbooks (http://ebooks.edu.gr)
The official portal of the Greek MoE for hosting and delivering digital school textbooks
http://ebooks.edu.gr/modules/ebook/show.php/DSGYM-B200/530/3507,14384/

6. http://photodentro.edu.gr/lor
Learning Objects
Small, reusable units of learning
Semantically autonomous
Open Licenses (CC BY NC SA)

7. http://photodentro.edu.gr/video
Educational Videos
Short length (<10min)
Curriculum related
Core-concept, suitable for in class use
Open Licenses (CC BY NC SA)

8. http://photodentro.edu.gr/edusoft
Educational Software
(for download)
Educational
multimedia titles
Sets of learning
scenarios
Educational
Software Tools
Open learning
environments

9. http://photodentro.edu.gr/ugc
User Generated Content
Open Educational Resources
Goals:
• Provide a place where
teachers can publish and
share their own Open
Educational Resources
• Build a community of
teachers
No prior evaluation of resources
Teachers have a Public Profile
Overall Approach:
Trust teachers first
Non-checked content

10. User
Studies, Work experience, Interests,
Publications, Skills

11. http://photodentro.edu.gr/oep
An OEP is a teaching technique which:
• is based on the use, reuse, or creation of Open Education Resources to facilitate
collaborative and flexible learning
• has been used in a classroom setting or outside of the classroom, and
• teachers openly share the results with other colleagues

12. 1. Short Description of OEP (with a focus on how OERs have been used in
earning activities and pupils creations)
2. OEP design and didactic goals
3. The educational context where the OEP has been applied (what, where
and how)
4. Open Educational Resources used
5. Documentation of the OEP extensibility and reusability
 Results / Impact (Added value, unexpected pedagogical
outcomes, changes to the initial design etc)
 Innovative characteristics / Relation with existing OEPs
 Extensibility / Reusability to other educational contexts
6. Other resources

13. Metadata EXTernal
Metadata Records
(links to external resources)
An intermediate repository
supporting the selection
and the metadata
enrichment of harvested
metadata records

14. Europeana Cultural
Collections
(8.000 selected resources,
enriched with educational
metadata)
http://photodentro.edu.gr/cultural

15. Open Educational Resources
from:
• Internal Photodentro
Repositories
• External Repositories &
Aggregators
http://photodentro.edu.gr/

16. Digital Educational Platform (e-me )
https://e-me.edu.gr/
• A “container” for content and applications
a safe working space for pupils and teachers
with a modern and intuitive interface
• Provide some basic functionality:
store and share content,
communicate and collaborate
publish their work,
exploit efficiently learning resources.
• E-me App Store

17. Profile
Contacts

18. Hives

19. App Store
Files

20. Content from external repositories in e-me
Calendar functionalities
Blog – Publishing content outside e-me
Repository
Calendar
Blogs

21. Dr. Elina Megalou Prof. Christos Kaklamanis
megalou@cti.gr ckakl@cti.gr
Dep. Project Coordinator Project Coordinator
Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus (CTI)
Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate
Mitropoleos 26-28, P.O. 10563, Athens
Tel: 0030 210 3350 600
Digital School (http://dschool.edu.gr)
Interactive textbooks, Photodentro Educational Repositories and National
Aggregator, and the Digital Educational Platform “e-me”