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Using e-Learning technologies & standards to make educational content available: The Organic.Edunet approach

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Using e-Learning technologies & standards

to make educational content available:

The Organic.Edunet approach

Palavitsinis N., Ebner H., Manouselis N., Sanchez-Alonso S.

3rd International Congress on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food, Forestry & Environment

(ITAFFE’10)

Organic.Edunet

builds a multilingual federation of learning repositories

content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecology

for the awareness & education of European Youth

http://portal.organic-edunet.eu

http://www.organic-edunet.eu

objectives (1/3)

support stakeholders producing content about OA & AE

deploy a multilingual online environment on top of the online federation of repositories

http://www.organic-edunet.eu

objectives (2/3)

study educational scenarios to support the teaching of OA & AE relevant topics

targeted user organisations high-schools agricultural universities

http://www.organic-edunet.eu

objectives (3/3)

involve various European schools & universities to evaluate project results

create organisational structures to support the sustainability of project results

Organic.EdunetMetadata Application Profile

About

• “Profiled” IEEE LOM Standard– Also adopted vocabularies from LRE v3.0

AP

• Deployed in Confolio – Repository management tool

• Translated in 17 languages in total

Confolio Repository Suite of Tools

About

• Confolio allows content providers to connect their repository to the Organic.Edunet federation of repositories– Allows search queries and supports

harvesting• Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata

Harvesting (OAI-PMH) • Simple Query Interface (SQI)

Organic.Edunet Web Federation Portal

About

• Facilitates access, usage and exploitation of digital educational content related to Organic Agriculture and Agroecology– Multilingual– Supports various ways of searching through

content– Creative commons licensed content

Social Navigation Module

Social Navigation Repository

Organic.Edunet Web Portal

Other Portals

Tags

Reviews

Rates

Resource Annotation

Prediction

RecommendationPopulation

Social Navigation Services

Organic.Edunet Technical Architecture

Ont-Space

Semantic repository of metadata [UAH]

Organic.Edunet portal

Seach/Browse/Tag...

Social navigation module[GRNet]

Federation of learning objects metadata SCAM repositories

Portal users- teachers- students-farmers

-general public...

Suite of Tools for Repository Creation, Population & Management

[KTH]Content providers

Discussion – Conclusions

• Organic.Edunet can serve as a reference point for institutions trying to open their content to the world by:– Offering Open Access– Licensing content– Deploying OAI-PMH and SQI

• Context independent

Discussion – Conclusions

• Need for a systematic analysis of the various problems that were tackled– Metadata annotation issues– Licensing of the content– Quality issues– Technical barriers

• Portal • Confolio Tool

Using e-Learning technologies & standards

to make educational content available:

The Organic.Edunet approach

Palavitsinis N., Ebner H., Manouselis N., Sanchez-Alonso S.

3rd International Congress on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food, Forestry & Environment

(ITAFFE’10)

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