TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources
across Europe
Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR, Italy
TenCompetence workshopSofia, Oct. 29-30th, 2008
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
Teacher Education (TE) includes various…
• Actors: teacher & trainer educators, practising & trainee teachers, publishers, content & service providers…
• Phases: Initital Teacher Education (ITE) & Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Learning processes: formal & non-formal, guided & self-directed
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
Pressing TE needs across Europe
• Ready access to reusable, user-validated digital resources
• Richer offering of TE-specific digital content (OER & commercial)
• Sense of community stretching beyond immediate locus; community engagement
• Broad European perspective – sharing experiences, practices & approaches
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
cultural differences
TE gateway
TE networks
TE resources & expertise
commercial & OER potential
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
Gateway to federated TE-specific resources- Metadata aggregation & harvesting (no LMS)- TE metadata model (pan-European & specific levels)
Personalized services: adaptive interface & query
A starting core of user-validated TE content
Promotion of European TE content marketplace
TE community support tools: feedback, ranking, experiential annotation, social networking, enriching metadata aggregation
Proposedresponse
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
Existing services,programs & models
LearningResourceExchange
VICE
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
TE ONTOLOGY- rationale
• Fostering shared understanding and communication among humans – a mappable set of TE-relevant concepts– non-ambiguous vocabulary
• Enabling adaptive user interface and reasoning-based query services
• Guiding design and system specification of tools and services
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
• Facilitating resource retrieval– Inferential search engine– Flexible representation of user profiles– Ranking solutions
• Providing linguistic & cultural interoperability– Bridging different national systems
TE ONTOLOGY- rationale
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
TE ONTOLOGY - main branches
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
TE ONTOLOGY - Multilayer
structureCommon level (culturally-independent)
Specific levels (culturally-dependent)
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual
approach
• Metadata Models: common + language- context specific
• Own working language• Familiar references to other educational
contexts/systems• suitable TE terminology & metadata
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual
approach
• Cultural connotation of TE models– Mapping different ‘local’ conditions
• Use peer recommendations
• Enrich resource with notation of user experience
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
Integrated model
Top down
Bottomup
TE ONTOLOGY
Folksonomies, experiential annotations
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR
TenCompetence workshop Sofia 29-30/10/08Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR