Computer Technology Institute & Press “DIOPHANTUS”

Digital SchoolInteractive textbooks, Photodentro Educational Repositories and National Aggregator, and the Digital Educational Platform “e-me”

Elina Megalou & Christos KaklamanisPresenter: Nikos Palavitsinis

“Digital School Platform, Interactive Books, and Learning Object Repository”

Coordinated and implemented by CTI

Duration5 years (2010-2015)

Budget 9.5 M euro

~ 200 teachers, academic professors, pedagogical and domain experts,

~ 80 engineers and technical personnel

Digital Educational Content (http://dschool.edu.gr)

Digital School: Content-based e-Services

1. Interactive Textbooks (ebooks.edu.gr)The official portal of the Greek Ministry of Education for hosting and delivering digital school textbooks

2. The Photodentro Content Repository Infrastructure (photodentro.edu.gr) An ecosystem of educational content repositories and the Greek national aggregator for school educational content

3. The Digital Educational Platform e-me (eme.edu.gr)A Personal Learning Environment for pupils and teachers

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Interactive Textbooks (http://ebooks.edu.gr)

The official portal of the Greek MoE for hosting and delivering digital school textbookshttp://ebooks.edu.gr/modules/ebook/show.php/DSGYM-B200/530/3507,14384/

http://photodentro.edu.gr/lor

Learning ObjectsSmall, reusable units of learning

Semantically autonomousOpen Licenses (CC BY NC SA)

http://photodentro.edu.gr/video

Educational VideosShort length (<10min)Curriculum related Core-concept, suitable for in class useOpen Licenses (CC BY NC SA)

http://photodentro.edu.gr/edusoft

Educational Software(for download)

Educational multimedia titles

Sets of learning scenarios

Educational Software Tools

Open learning environments

http://photodentro.edu.gr/ugc

User Generated Content Open Educational Resources

Goals: • Provide a place where

teachers can publish and share their own Open Educational Resources

• Build a community of teachers

No prior evaluation of resourcesTeachers have a Public Profile

Overall Approach: Trust teachers first

Non-checked content

UserStudies, Work experience, Interests, Publications, Skills

http://photodentro.edu.gr/oep

An OEP is a teaching technique which:

• is based on the use, reuse, or creation of Open Education Resources to facilitate

collaborative and flexible learning

• has been used in a classroom setting or outside of the classroom, and

• teachers openly share the results with other colleagues

1. Short Description of OEP (with a focus on how OERs have been used in earning activities and pupils creations)

2. OEP design and didactic goals 3. The educational context where the OEP has been applied (what, where

and how)4. Open Educational Resources used 5. Documentation of the OEP extensibility and reusability

Results / Impact (Added value, unexpected pedagogical outcomes, changes to the initial design etc)

Innovative characteristics / Relation with existing OEPs Extensibility / Reusability to other educational contexts

6. Other resources

Metadata EXTernal

Metadata Records (links to external resources)

An intermediate repository supporting the selection and the metadata enrichment of harvested metadata records

Europeana Cultural Collections(8.000 selected resources, enriched with educational metadata)

http://photodentro.edu.gr/cultural

Open Educational Resources from:• Internal Photodentro

Repositories

• External Repositories & Aggregators

http://photodentro.edu.gr/

Digital Educational Platform (e-me )

https://e-me.edu.gr/

• A “container” for content and applications a safe working space for pupils and teacherswith a modern and intuitive interface

• Provide some basic functionality:store and share content, communicate and collaborate publish their work, exploit efficiently learning resources.

• E-me App Store

Profile

Contacts

Hives

App Store

Files

Content from external repositories in e-me

Calendar functionalities

Blog – Publishing content outside e-me

Repository

Calendar

Blogs

Dr. Elina Megalou Prof. Christos Kaklamanismegalou@cti.gr ckakl@cti.gr Dep. Project Coordinator Project Coordinator

Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus (CTI)Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate Mitropoleos 26-28, P.O. 10563, AthensTel: 0030 210 3350 600

Digital School (http://dschool.edu.gr) Interactive textbooks, Photodentro Educational Repositories and National Aggregator, and the Digital Educational Platform “e-me”