Centre for Educational Technlogy

Centre for Educational Technology!

Institute of Informatics!Tallinn University!

2011!

Tallinn University!

The third largest public university in Estonia!www.tlu.ee/eng!!!

Haridustehnoloogia keskus, Tallinna Ülikool, Narva mnt. 25, Tallinn | tel/fax +372 6409 355

•  Established in 2005 (or 1920)!•  9500 students, 540 faculty!•  66 BA, 80 MA, 15 PhD curricula!•  11 international study programs!•  20 institutes, 5 colleges!•  The fastest growing university in

Estonia!


University Factsheet!

Specialisation!

•  Educational sciences!•  Humanities and Languages!•  Fine arts, dance, cultural studies!•  Law, business, political sciences!•  Natural sciences!•  Film and media!•  Social sciences!•  Sports, health and recreation!•  IT, library and information sciences!


Centre for Educational Technology!

•  Established in 1996 in the Faculty of Education!•  Since 2005: R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics!Staff: 12 researchers, 5 developers, 2 administrative!Focus:!•  Research and development projects in TEL domain!•  International Masters programme Interactive Media &

Knowledge Envirnonments (imke.tlu.ee)!•  PhD programme ‘Information Society Technologies’!•  Labs: Apple, IxD lab, multimedia, m-learning!


CET Key Staff!


Prof. David Lamas!PhD!

Prof. Tobias Ley!Phd!


CET Key Staff!

Kai Pata!PhD, Senior researcher!

Terje Väljataga!PhD, researcher!


CET Key Staff!

Mart Laanpere!researcher!

Sonia Sousa!PhD, researcher!


CET Key Staff!

Vladimir Tomberg!researcher!

Hans Põldoja!researcher!


CET Key Staff!

Kairit Tammets!researcher!

Martin Sillaots!researcher!

CET Research Competences!


CET Technological Competences!

•  Open-source software development using LAMP (Elgg, WordPress), Python (Zope, Plone), Java, SOAP services, mashups & widgets (Wookie) !

•  Applications: PLE, e-portfolio, Learning Object Repositories, QTI tools, Research 2.0 widgets!

•  Our test beds: Estonian E-university Consortium (55 000+ students), 500+ Estonian schools (partnership with Tiger Leap Foundation) !



Partner in International Projects!

FP6 Calibrate - Learning Resource Exchange // calibrate.eun.org!



FP6 iCamp – virtual campus based on social software // icamp.eu!



eCP iCoper – Competency-driven Learning Design // icoper.org!



FP7 ICT IntelLEO – Web services for supporting intelligent learning in Extended Organisations // intelleo.eu!



FP7 ICT IntelLEO – Web services for supporting intelligent learning in Extended Organisations // intelleo.eu!



Deer Leap – development of ICT strategy for Georgian schools!www.htk.tlu.ee/deerleap!


Our Open-Source Software Products!

IVA – Virtual Learning Environment, 20 000+ users // htk.tlu.ee/iva!



DiPo – Digital Portfolio for teachers // eportfoolio.opetaja.ee!



Krihvel – VLE for elementary schools // trac.htk.tlu.ee/krihvel!



LeMill.net – online community for authoring and sharing Web-based learning resources (17 000+ users, 28 000+ LOs) // lemill.net!



Waramu – LO repository // trac.htk.tlu.ee/waramu, instance: // koolielu.ee!



TATS – QTI 2.1 compliant question and test authoring tool // ait.opetaja.ee/tats!



PETS - QTI test delivery tool // ait.opetaja.ee/pets-war!



Dippler – next-gen VLE, synthesis of PLE+LMS // trac.htk.tlu.ee/iva2!



LePress – course mgmt plugin for Wordress // trac.htk.tlu.ee/lepress!



EduFeedr – educational feed aggregator for blog-based courses // blog.edufeedr.org!

We are offering our partnership: !

•  FP7 ICT Technology-Enhanced Learning Call 8!–  Target outcomes B1, C and E!–  We can involve large-scale national-level test beds!

•  FP7 Science in Society!–  Inquiry-based science education!–  Use of language corpora for language learning!

•  Other international research funding opportunities in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning!


CET contacts!

E-mail: [email protected] !Skype: haridustehnoloogiakeskus!Phone: (+372) 640 9355!Webpage: http://htk.tlu.ee!
