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Educational Area

Crete, May 13th, 2004

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VISWE Scenarios

Discussion showed that different learning context have very different requirements

Four different scenarios with specific target groups Education for Professionals Shared Master Degree Programme Communities of Practice Repository Usage

(Main contributions by FUB, FUBerlin, INRIA, L3S, OU)

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Education for Professionals

Goal: Information dissemination to professionals

Target group: professionals

Possible offers Low entry level information Detailed technical courses High-cost individual training and consulting

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Shared Master Programme

Goals Fostering exchange of M.Sc. students between universities development of a shared M.Sc. programme

Target group: primarily M.Sc, prob. Ph.D students

Possible Offers Recognition of studentship Recognition of exams Curriculum agreement, student can get ‘diploma supplement’

Several Cooperation Levels possible

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Community of Practice (1)

Innovative Learning means to move from peripheral to full membership

Core Group, Experts:NoE Knowldege WebInnovative Learning

‘Full members’:Semantic Web Community

‘Peripheral members’

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Community of Practice (2)

Goal Fostering collaboration and self-study of PhD students and

researchers

Target group Ph.D. students, Researchers (self-studies)

Possible offers Support for community-centered learning, access to research material opportunities to participate in group projects

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Repository Usage

Goal give users optimal access to Semantic Web

teaching/learning materials regardless of their learning context.

Target group unspecified, but possible usages: Teaching: search for and include high-quality material

developed by others into courses. Learning: search for and use material for self-study.

Possible Offers Advanced search facilities (search for courses, and

topics/parts of courses) Relatively small learning units for self-study editable version of learning units in widespread formats

(to ease integration into other contexts)

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Questionnaire responses

26 Learning Units / Courses from 12 partners Education for Professionals: 5 Shared Master Programme: 11 Community of Practice: 12

Nearly all units already available, 1/3 have to be adaptedMost offers face-to-face or self-study, very few distance learning

(Offers from CERTH, FUB, FUBerlin, INRIA, L3S, OU, L3S, UniTn, UPM, USFD, VUA, VUM)

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Questionnaire responses: Main Areas

Foundations Logic (4) Web Technologies (3)

Semantic Web Core Knowledge Representation (3) Ontologies (4) Semantic Web (5)

Semantic Web Special Topics (4)

Other Related Topics (3)

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Conventional Infrastructure

Several systems have been evaluated: Clix, ILIAS, Ariadne, EducaNext

Favorite: EducaNext No need to convert material to special LMS format Metadata available as RDF Cooperation with ProLearn network

(L3S)

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Summer School 2004

Cercedilla, July, 18-24th (http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/)

80 Applications, 55 students selected

3 Main topics Ontologies: Theory, methods and tools Human Language Technologies and Machine Learning for

the Semantic Web Semantic Web Services

(OU, UPM)

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Cooperation with REWERSE

REWERSE: Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics Cooperation in the context of educational work packages

Agreed Cooperation REWERSE usage of our learning unit repository Learning Units will be available for both networks (and to all

other interested users, of course)

Possible Further Cooperations Summer school Master Programme

(FUB, L3S)

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Status by Deliverable (WP 3.1)

D 3.1.1 Specification of VISWE tasks and goals Scenarios with goals, tasks and requirements

documented

First focus of VISWE: Shared Master Programme: bilateral recognition

agreements Community of Practice: support with advanced

infrastructure Repository: customized server (EducaNext)

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Status by Deliverable (WP3.2)

D 3.2.1 v1 Initial learning unit collection available Learning units collected, have to be put into repository

D 3.2.3 Report on core curricula in Ontology and Semantic Web Based on questionnaire results 6-Month version will be status report

D 3.2.6 Summer school on semantic web technologies Will take place in Madrid (July 2004)

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Status by Deliverable (WP3.3)

D 3.3.1 Report on the agreed metadata standard for learning units Selected DC and LOM elements, based on EducaNext

metadata

D 3.3.2 v1 Basic infrastructure available Negotiations with EducaNext consortium finished Server will be set up in the next weeks

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Next Steps

VISWE (organizational MoU(s)) Ontologies (pre-requisite for semantic support and

indexing) Summer School 2005 Master – start working within core groups CoP infrastructure largely based on OU toolset Preparation of JPA educational parts for second 18

months

Next meeting: 2nd week of September, Hannover or possibly joint with other WP meetings