VO-raad Netherlands (Board of secondary schools)

Innovationplatform from the VO-raadLinda le GrandRon Zuylen

Secondary education in the Netherlands (Context)

• Students are in the age 12-18 years• 1.000.000 students• 750 schools for secondary education

Innovationplatform (Context) Goals• Stimulate the use of open digital content. • Create the opportunity for schools to make a

good mix of learning resources – open versus commercial content– digital versus folio content

• 2012: enough content to cover all competences• Enlarging the competences of

schoolmanagement and teachers

Launched October 2009

VO-content exists out of different collections (context)

Our strategy (I)• We want learners and teachers to use the

learning objects.• The teachers that at the moment use

Wikiwijs are mainly ‘early adopters’.• The schools of these teachers have

positively decided to innovate and use (open) digital content in a substantial percentage of the curriculum, or they experiment on an individual basis.

Our strategy (II)• We need quality besides quantity • Quality in metadata, quality in the content • Teachers are highly interested in curricula

and want to understand where a certain learning object ‘belongs’ in the curriculum. This helps teachers to understand how you can use such an object.

Finding curricula

Curriculum assist users

Metadata specifications• The educational metadata fields are necessary

for sucess. • Field 9 has a lot of opportunities and in our

specifications we made ‘course subject’ and ‘learning level’ mandatory and ‘attainment level’ desirable.

• Recently, Kennisnet started a project on metadata specifications and we participate in that.

Quality system for digital contentSLO helps us to develop a quality system for open digital content.

– How thoroughly and adequate is the metadata? – How do users appreciate the content? – How often is content used? – What do experts think of the content? – Is the learning object part of a larger course/curriculum. – How is the development process of the contentowner

structured? Is there a plan? Have the learning objects linkage to each other.

– Is the development supervised? Is the learning object tried out in the field?

• The thinking on this part is not over, but we hope to implement the first part of it in September.

Content and learning objects• We look for collections and contact the owner.• We try to have them published their material on

Wikiwijs under a creative commons licence. • We aim at aggregation level 2+, 3 and 4. • Our users at the moment are ‘consumers’

instead of ‘prosumers’ and are looking for ‘out-of-the-box’ content to use in their classes.

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Thanks for your attention

Linda le Grandlindalegrand@vo-raad.nlRon Zuylenronzuylen@vo-raad.nl