Share.TEC: Sharing Digital Resources in the
Teacher Education Community
Fred de Vries
Open Universiteit,
Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies
Copenhagen 7 October 2010
Share.TEC – the project…
•
•
Sharing Digital Resources in the Teacher Education Community
eContentplus programme
•
•
June 2008 - May 2011
Consortium:
– Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, CNR (IT) (Coordinator)
– Trinity College Dublin (IE)
– Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia (IT)
– Stockholm University (SE)
– Open University of the Netherlands (NL)
– Universidad de Valladolid (ES)
– Sofia University (BG)
– CLUEB Editore (IT)
universities,
research inst.,
schools of
education
ed. technology developers
educational publisher
eContentplus
End users: Share.TEC’s primary targets
teacher educator (individual / institution)
practising teacher
student teacher
eContentplus
Current status
• Repository harvesting different national
repositories: focus on relevance for TE not on
quantity. (portal)
• Usability a serious issue in testing platform
• Focus on communities of TE’s; … 8 pilots
• Challenge to make Metadata as complete as
possible
– ‘ automatic’ metadata
– Accept levels of completeness
eContentplus
Last year has started .. 1-6-2011
Dissemination for TE in different countries
Harvesting filtered contents from
repositories in different EU countries on TE
Support of existing and new communities
Discussion on sustainability plan..!
eContentplus
metadata?
Common Metadata Model (CMM)
- a TE-specific LOM-based application profile
Sections 1 to 8 - LOM
interoperability in metadata
migration from/to repositories
standards-based metadata
Sections 9 and 10 – TEO
(Teacher Education Ontology)
TE specific, culturally dependent
elements & vocabularies
pedagogically–oriented
metadata
eContentplus
Released
version
eContentplus
Thanks…
•
project website
http://www.share-tec.eu/
•
contact
[email protected]
eContentplus