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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)
