R ESOURCE - BASED LEARNING : USING DIGITAL RESOURCES IN SCHOOL PRACTICE Anna Mavroudi, Open...

RESOURCE-BASED LEARNING: USING DIGITAL RESOURCES IN SCHOOL PRACTICE

Anna Mavroudi, Open University of Cyprus & University of Cyprus

OUTLINE

Resource-Based Learning (RBL) approach Technological-Pedagogical-Content-Knowledge

(TPCK) Today’s students: Digital natives Educational repositories Digital resources Pedagogical scenarios Communities of practice & social networks of

teachers

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TODAY’S LEARNERS: DIGITAL NATIVES

TECHNOLOGICAL-PEDAGOGICAL-CONTENT KNOWLEDGE (TPCK)

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(Angeli & Valanides, 2009)

RESOURCE-BASED LEARNING (RBL)

Support diverse teaching needs Editable and adaptable educational resources

RBL involves the re-use of available assets to support varied learning needs (Beswick,1990).

DataInformationKnowledgeMeaning

ResourcesContextsToolsScaffolds

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(Hill & Hannafin, 2001)

THE PROBLEM AND THE CHALLENGE

“Alvin Toffler (1993), a prominent technology futurist, predicted that individuals would have more information at their desktop than was available during an entire lifetime at the turn of the 20th century; this prediction may prove conservative.”“Technology capabilities hold considerable promise for teaching and learning, but current practices may prove insufficient in optimizing available resources and preparing individuals to learn in resource-rich environments. Schools and classrooms need to become resource intensive (Reigeluth, 1988)”

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(Hill & Hannafin, 2001)

WHAT’S WRONG WITH GOOGLE SEARCH?

Search engines help to locate, access and retrieve potential (educational resources)

BUT usually… These resources are scattered They are not certified (why is this important?) They do not help the teacher (or the user, in

general) to determine their relevance or meaning

They are not somehow evaluated

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THE OPEN DISCOVERY SPACE (ODS) PROJECT

Open Discovery Space: A socially-powered and multilingual open learning infrastructure to boost the adoption of eLearning resources

Duration: 1st April 2012 – 1st April 2015Overall Budget: € 15,300,000Consortium: 51 partnersRepositories: 26 repositoriesResources: 1502875

CIP PSP funded initiative aiming to deploy a pan-European open eLearning content infrastructure.

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HTTP://WWW.OPENDISCOVERYSPACE.EU

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EDUCATIONAL REPOSITORIES

Open Learning Content

In many languages

Accessed by mobile devices (in some repositories)

For teachers and pupils

In various formats and types

The majority licensed under CC

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HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

Online Engagement Activities Visionary, Practice Reflection and Summative

Workshops Workshops and Seminars (Local and National

level) Training and Demonstration Activities

(National level) Contests for secondary school teachers and

students (National and International level) Comenius Winter and Summer Schools

(International level)

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(Sotiriou & Riviou, 2012)

EXAMPLE SCENARIOS

ODS workshop – Crete, July 1-6th 2012.

Repositories used: “Natural Europe” & “Discover the Cosmos”

Scenario1: “Local and protected endagered species”

Scenario 2: “Expanding Universe”

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ODS COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

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(Sotiriou & Riviou, 2012)

- School communities that have similar profiles

- Communities of practice that may collaborate on similar scenarios

- Virtual communities (thematic areas, national areas)

An example of a thematic networkThe UK National Schools’ Observatory:

A Virtual School for Science Education

SUCCESS STORY 2: NICOSIA & GAUDOS, ONE SCHOOL YARD

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Gaydos (Greece) and Agios Spiridonas (Nicosia) Primary Schools Collaboration

COMMUNITY USE CASE: THE GREEK ODS COMMUNITY

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(Sotiriou & Riviou, 2012)

Photodentro repository : Greek National Digital Learning Object Respository

Pilot Schools in Greece

Greek thematic portals

SCENARIO “SEASONS”

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“Earth in Motion: Seasons”, originally located at http://www.oercommons.org/courses/earth-in-motion-seasons

(Lazonder et al., 2012)

SCENARIO “SEASONS” (CONT.)

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“Earth in Space Middle School Science”, originally locate at: http://www.oercommons.org/courses/earth-in-space-middle-school-science

(Lazonder et al., 2012)

SCENARIO “SEASONS” (CONT.)

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“Seasons: Exploring misconceptions”, originally located at: http://portal.discoverthecosmos.eu/en/node/106100

(Lazonder et al., 2012)

SCENARIO “SEASONS” (CONT.)

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“Saisons, ensoleillement, lever-coucher du soleil ”, originally located at: http://i2geo.net/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_ChristianMercat/Saisonsensoleillementlever-coucherdusoleil?bc= (Lazonder et al., 2012)

SCENARIO “SEASONS”

“Misconceptions”, originally located at:

http://portal.discoverthecosmos.eu/en/taxonomy/term/3472

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(Lazonder et al., 2012)

CONTACT DETAILS

Findhttp://www.opendiscoveryspace.eu Like!http://www.facebook.com/

opendiscoveryspace.eu Followhttps://twitter.com/ods_eu

Contact me: anna.mavroudi@st.ouc.ac.cyOr annamav@ucy.ac.cy

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