The document discusses the current state of digital learning resources in Estonia and proposes moving towards an "Educational Cloud" to address several issues. It notes that learning resources are currently scattered across different websites and repositories. An Educational Cloud would allow for scaling up use and reuse of resources, improving interoperability, and supporting innovative pedagogical approaches like flipped classrooms and project-based learning. Interviews were conducted to inform requirements for the cloud, which aims to harvest metadata from repositories, create shareable collections of resources, and integrate learning analytics.

1. 
Towards educational cloud
Mart Laanpere, head of the Centre for Educational Technology

2. Current situation in Estonia
 Koolielu.ee (since 2009): repository of teacher-created learning
resources, more than half of Estonian teacher are registered
users, QA (subject moderators and QA checklist)
 LeMill.net: 50K users, 70K learning resources, shutting down
 Digital Exams: EIS prototype was received with mixed feelings
 Textbook publishers are experimenting with various e-textbook
formats (ePub, Web-based, apps, eLessons, LCMS)
 Majority of actively used digital learning resources are scattered
around Web 2.0 (blogs, wikis, LearningApps, Khan Academy,
Kahoot, Weebly, HotPotatoes etc)

3. Unsolved issues
 Scaling up the use, re-mix and re-use, interoperability
 Metadata creation and collection from various repos
 LO quality assurance, curriculum coverage
 Teachers want to use hundreds different authoring tools
 Majority of UG content is hidden, locked and hard to find
 IPR violations, combining proprietary content and OER
 Supporting innovative pedagogical scenarios

4. Innovative pedagogical scenarios
 Majority of available digital learning resources follow
the conservative pedagogy: presentation-practice-test
 Innovative pedagogical scenarios from LEARNMIX
project (re-conceptualizing e-textbook):
 Flipped classroom
 Project-based learning
 Problem-based learning
 Inquiry-based learning
 Game-based learning
Http://learnmix.tlu.ee

5. What is being done elsewhere
 Slovenia: eSchoolBag
 Finland:
 EduCloud: Basaari, KnowHow, ShowMe
 Dikaios Cloud
 eOppi remix-textbooks in PedaNet
 Ubiikki: textbook design & repository service
 USA: OpenEd.io
 Estonia: Astra eTextbooks (Avita), iPbooks (Koolibri), Wordpress
(Maurus)

6. Preliminary analysis for DLR Cloud
 During July – August 2014 we conducted interviews (30+) with:
 Teachers, school principals, educational technologists
 Textbook publishers, other content providers (EIS, KhanAcademy)
 Online gradebook providers
 Metadata & ontotlogy experts
 Goals (inputs for tender on developing the EduCloud):
 Requirements specification
 Personas, scenarios
 Clickable prototype

7. Educational cloud: interoperable services
Learning
Content
Administrative
SIS
Core: ID,
users, rights
Koolielu.ee
TAAT.edu.ee OAuth
eKool.eu,
Stuudium
EHIS
EIS
…
DLR Cloud
BYOD PLE Moodle Eliademy
…
… …

8. Digital Learning Resource cloud

9. DLR cloud: goals
 Metadata harvesting:
 Automatic, every 24 hrs from multiple repositories (incl. Finnish)
 Content provider responsible for interfacing and metadata quality
 Creating collections from DLR:
 Powerful metadata-based search and recommendation
 Collections created by teachers for students, for learners
 Shareable on multiple end-user platforms
 Learning analytics:
 Tracking the activities of users (TinCan API, LRS)
 Recommender systems