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• Consolidating collections

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• learning resources

• using APML

• http:// www. eun .org

• http://melt-project.eu

• Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet

2. How do K12 teachers search for content in Europe? Replies based on 45 European primary and secondary teachers participating the MELT project

3. About 40% official sources

4. About 60% informal sources and user generated content

5. Is there any interplay between official and informal sources of learning content?

6. Should there be?

• Margaryan& Littlejohn (2008) on barriers: curators repository-centric perspective leads to introduction of repositories as stand alone tools to users.

• However, repositories are not used in isolation!

Margaryan, A., & Littlejohn, A.: Repositories and communities at cross-purposes: Issues in sharing and reuse of digital learning resources. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (JCAL), 24(4), 333-347 (2008)

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9. How do we know?

• Exploratory case study on del.icio.us:

• How do teachers use it?

• What kind of content is there?

• From what sources does the content come from?

10. Study specs

• 16 teachers who have both MELT and del.icio.us account

• Primary and secondary teachers

• In science, languages, ICTs

• Fi, Et, Hu and Be

• 7 are females and 9 males

• 1 < 30 years,

• 8 30-40 years

• 5 40-50 years,

• 2 50-60 years

11. Study specs

• MELT portal profile information:

• Country

• Languages spoken

• Main areas of interest

• Resources bookmarked and tags

• Delicious:

• 100 last bookmarks and tags

• Number of bookmarks, tags, network

12. Study specs

13. Study specs

14. How do teachers use it?

• This group seems to be serious about using del.icio.us, median amount of posts was 105

• About 60% above median

15. What kind of content?

• We manually analysed the 50 most used distinct tags almost all of them were related to education!

• e.g. teaching, English, esl, efl, history, interactivity, vocabulary

• Lots of links to interesting resources! but not necessary CC content

16. Why consolidate?

• Make the MELT portal more central to teachers every day life make other resources available too! (i.e. web 2.0 fatigue)

• Make resources available from other sources too, e.g. user generated content, interesting links found via Google...

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18. User Labor Markup Language (ULML)

• User labor is the work that people put in to create, improve, and maintain their existence in social web

• generating assets (e.g. user profiles, images, videos, blog posts),

• creating metadata (e.g. tagging, voting, commenting etc.),

• attracting traffic (e.g. incoming views, comments, favourites)

• socialising with other people (e.g. number of friends, social influence)

19. Profiling LOR based on users' interest

• This is my APML file.

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21. Got issues?

• Interoperability of user-generated metadata (e.g. tags, ratings, annotations, )

• Data-portability

• Attention Profile Markup Language (ampl)

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