A Comparative Education Study Site

WorldED Presented byPatricia O’Brien LibuttiSpecial Libraries AssociationEducation Division Program:“It Takes a Global Village”Nashville, TNJune 9, 2004

WorldED began as a collaboratively developed web site that provides a searchable interface for studying the evaluated education sites sponsored by groups from many countries outside the USA. http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/digital-projects/world_ed/

WorldED is now sponsored by the Scholarly Communication Center, Rutgers University Libraries.

WorldED was initiated and continued by P. Libutti,Ronald Janz developed the reusable platform used in this site development. The initial typology and collection of sites were collaboratively developed by C. Chattoo, L. Haycock, S. Kirven, T. Kuchi, P. Libutti, C. Margulies,L. Murtha, and N. Stowell in 2002.

Logo: Copyright 1998-2004 Patricia O'Brien Libutti.

The impetus for developing WorldED was working with ThinkQuest and the students from 57 countries…

Broad Search Categories in WorldED

Instructional ToolsResearchDisciplineTopical Site Features and more

Indexing •Geographic Region• Language, •Audience, •Sponsorship.• Information included, when available, includes Updates.

[ Search] [Add a Website] [ Contacts] [ SCC] [ Instructor]

A deceptively simple search bar hides many options•Instructor control of content added•Ability of user to add a site, to be reviewed before appearing publicly.•Search options: categories and text

Geographical AreaAfricaAsiaAustraliaCaribbeanCentral AmericaEuropeMiddle EastOceaniaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaGlobal

Multi country

Education LevelPre K below 5 yearsKindergartenPrimaryMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolCollegeGraduate SchoolAdult Education

Type of Education SiteMinistry of EducationCommercial SiteSyllabus or CourseSchoolNet or TeacherNetSubject GuidePortal GlobalPortal RegionalCurriculum ResourceJournals Index or DatabaseAssociation

SponsorshipCommercialReligious OrganizationIndividual CompanyIndividual PersonEducation AssociationNon ProfitGovernmentPublisherMedia TV

ResearchComparativeInterculturalIndigenousPsychologicalStatisticalProgramInstructionReformPolicy AnalysisTheoryTechnologyTeacher Education

FeaturesDiscussion ForumInteractive ComponentTeaching MaterialsVideo DownloadsAudioE zineVirtual Museum VisitPhoto GalleryArt GalleryTest or AssessmentTextbook or Documents

Instructor’s FunctionsTo view/edit/add new records in the review database, click the Review Database button.

To view/delete records in the public database, click the Public Database button.

After any changes are made to the public database, the database must be re-indexed. Click below to re-index. (May take several minutes)

Click below to edit the subject classifications.

RECORD SAMPLESite Name: INASP/ African Journals OnlineURL: http://www.inasp.info/ajol/Categories: Education Level: High School , College , Graduate School ; Geographical Area: Africa ; Higher Education: Arts,Arts , Humanities , Social Sciences , Science,Science , Technology,Technology , Medicine , Multidisciplinary ; Languages: English and Country Language ; Sponsorship: Subjects K 12: Arts,Arts ; Languages ; Social Studies , Science,Science , Interdisciplinary ; Type of Education Site: Journals Index or Database ;Annotations: AJOL offers the tables of content and abstracts from scholarly journals published in Africa on: agricultural sciences and resource management, arts, culture, language and literature, health, science and technology and the social sciences. The site includes a fee-based document delivery service. Member countries of Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) http://www.inasp.info/peri/countries.html do not pay fees for document delivery. Language(s): English and French. Publisher: INASPContributor: S. KirvenDate of Submission: 2004-05-26

Sample Sites:Compare education systems See children’s sites: alike and differentSee how American sites are re-issued in different contextsNotice the ways different countries treat the same issuesNote the depth of research resources available on sites

The information is varied and can be studied across shifting national priorities, as can be seen in the concluding slide

The database is now in Stage Two:entering a critical mass of over 600 records.

Feel free to explore the database, and use the “Contact” key to let us know how we are doing!libutti@rci.rutgers.edu