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ViS:AT Abteilung IT/3, IT – Systems for Educational Purposes 1 / 2325.11.08, ds

Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, BM:UKK

Department: IT-Systems for Educational Purposes

http://www.virtuelleschule.at

Overview of Project Tasks and Targets of BM:UKK


Regular tasks of the Department

• Soft- and hardware planning and support for classes

• Resources and support for thematic educational issues

• Change agent functions for IT in education

• Planning and coordinating data security for education

• Planning and coordinating for computers and their use in class

• Multimedia applications for the use of new technology in

education

• Ergonomic health and safety

• Supporting documentation and information systems in class

• Documentation of projects with ICT integration

• Evaluation and documentation of professional literature

• Software for humanities


Main Targets of Department V/3

• To develop and enhance eContent for use within curriculum

material (Learning Objects, Learning Modules, Learning

Sequences & Leraning Courses) and utilised in the school

environment

• To encourage the use of eContent within class projects that are

underpinned by a diverse range of pedagogies

• To evaluate and enhance the interdisciplinary modules resources

of presentations, digital videos and other forms of multimedia

• To modify the current bank of Learning Objects to include

practice orientated teaching objects

• To enrich existing eContent of Learning-Content for

interdisciplinary teaching to enrich the current interdisciplinary

eLearning Content


Virtual School Austria

• At the core of ViS:AT is free access to subject oriented resources.

• The resources are developed by teachers drawn from various subject disciplines and school types.

• The eContent Material, which includes lesson plans and teaching materials, is proofed by various teams according to project guidelines to ensure the quality of the published material.

• The various projects are organised within the Virtual School according to syllabus, pedagogy and cross-cultural dimension.

The Department‘s main project currently is;

Virtual School Austria (ViS:AT)http://www.virtuelleschule.at


History of the Virtual School Austria

• ViS:AT was initially established as an interface between Austria and The European Schoolnet in 1997.

• ViS:AT was set up nationally to present via the Internet an overview of the Austrian educational contribution and its involvement with ICT projets.

14. Italy15. Lithuania16. Luxembourg17. Malta18. Norway19. Poland20. Portugal21. Slovenia22. Spain23. Sweden24. Switzerland25. The Netherlands26. United Kingdom

1. Austria2. Belgium3. Czech Republic4. Denmark5. Estonia6. Finland7. France8. Germany9. Greece10. Hungary11. Iceland12. Ireland13. lIsrael

BM:UKK is a coorporate partner in the EUN Network and member of the Steering Committee


ViS:AT: Overview for ICT projects

• systematic collection and categorisation of Learning resources• we are integrating the existing online environment in Austria• increasing use of eContent• increasing the quality and quantity of Learning Objects and Learning Resources• exemplar development of scenarios according to national curricular• supporting stakeholders to enhance their materials on the internet• to enable teachers to find existing resources easily


Collaborations: Overview

Interested institutions have the opportunity, through ViS:AT, to form project partnerships. These partnerships are drawn from:

1. Formal Education: Schools of all schooltypes, Teacher Training Institutions

2. University Level: University of Applied Sciences

3. Educational Stakesholders:Ministries, Public Authorities, Educational Servers

4. Business Companies

5. NGOs, NPOs, Museums


Collaborating with Educational Organisations

•Bildungspool of BM:UKKhttp://bildungspool.bildung.at

•E-Teaching Austria (Servies for Laptop classes)http://www.e-teaching-austria.at

•e-LISA-Academyhttp://www.e-lisa-academy.at


Collaborating with Educational Servers

In Austria, 9 Educational Servers are running; each province runs their own server.

Closely working with:

- Education Highway OÖ - TIBS (Tiroler Bildungsservice)- Bildungssever Burgenland- Informatikserver Steiermark


Collaborations with Private Companies

Interested companies have the opportunity, through ViS:AT, to cooperate with educational organisations by:• Exchanging experience and information in order to integrate ICT into everday aspects of school life• Contributjng to the development of eLearning material and delivery of eLearning in the classroom IBM , Österreich

Club of Rome

mc station

Promethean


ViS:AT Networking

1. ViS:AT networks with the Austrian Neighbour countries

2. ViS:AT cross-links different intiatives in Education

3. ENIS – Europäisches Netzwerk Innovativer Schulen, Österreich


ViS:AT Dissemination and Utilisation

Channels: The BM:UKK uses the following channels to disseminate information in Austria

• Newsletterse-Teaching-Austria, schule.at, eLISA Academy, Informatikserver Steiermark, eTwinning, Lebenslanges Lernen National Agentur, IMST-Netzwerk, Science Center Netzwerk

• NetworksENIS Österreich, Teams of the Subject Oriented portal

• All Schools in Austriavia administrative e-mails

• WebsitesBM:UKK, 9 educational servers

• Institutionsproject relevant institutions, museums, private companies


ViS:AT Support

ViS:AT supports the activities of tutors and teachers through

• financial & organisational support• Lectures & Training• Dissemination & Utilisation• participation in international educational conferences


ViS:AT Organisational Structure

ViS:AT is divided into the following areas

1. National subject orientated portals and ICT projects2. Special projects3. International Projects4. Partnerships5. Conferences, Workshops and Presentations6. Evaluations


National subject orientated portals

The subject related portals refer to the education ministry‘s guideline Electronic Content for Austrian Schools: Creation, Distribution and Maintenance from 2003 and to the eContent initiative of the Ministry of Education.

The Subject Oriented Portal is organised by BM:UKK and Eduhi• the Gegenstandsportal ViS:AT EU Projekte” is an EXCHANGE Portal for eCONTENT between AUSTRIAN EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS and EU Projects for regular subjects but also interdisciplinar teaching topics• the Subject Oriented Portal (Gegenstandsportal) was established in 1997 and is financed by the BM:UKK• there are 40 subject oriented portals: http://www.schule.at/gegenstand • they publish and link quality proved content


Exchange Portal: ViS:EU

The Subject Oriented Portal is organised by BM:UKK and Eduhi

ViS:EU is an EXCHANGE Portal for eContent between Austrian Eductional Platforms and EU Projects, but is a national ICT-project The targets are: • to exchange existing materials between regular subjects and projects• the dissemination of the results and information in standard/regular subjects• the networking with other initiatives in eLearning • the use, re-use und enrichment of existing eContent, etc.

Subject oriented portal ViS:EU

Materials, which are established for EU projects can be easily integrated to the regular subjects

Materials, can be easily asked by teams to provide for EU projects


Special Projects

In special projects, teachers and students, together with specialists from different institutions, can create or adapt multimedia and interactive learning material

– Use in schools– In open learning environments

PastPerfectNet-MusicLegoLeague

Games in Schools

Examples of current projects:

IT&Gender Toolbox

Mobile Learning ViS für Kinder


International Projects and EU Projects

ViS:AT supports international ICT initiatives with activities at national level and actively cooperates on diverse projects.

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eContent: Collecting Resources and Quality Assurance

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1) Inviting schools and institutions to provide eContentAccording to the relevant project-proposals the BM:UKK invites schools and institutions (e.g. museums, science-centers, NPOs, NGOs, public institutions, ministries, etc.) to provide existing eContent for the relevant projects. 2) Storing of eContentThe eContent can be stored on own webservers of the schools and institutions. eContent which will be provided for the relevant projects has to be stored on the BM:UKK-server. 3) Quality assurance and checking eContentA committee of assessors will check this eContent according to: copyright, connection to the national curricular, didactical principals, functionality, technical function, criteria of eContent (“Ten principles for Creating eContent”) 4) Improving and enriching eContentThe committee gives advance and support about how to improve and enrich this eContent.In trainings, the authors get help from experts (organised by BM:UKK) to improve their content according to the guidelines of the relevant project. Experiences of other projects will be implemented.The following structure is demanded: short scenario: the main items are: author, target group, duration, learning objective, reference to the curriculum, added value to traditional materials5) Contracts with the authorsThe authors will be contracted by BM:UKK to abandon the materials to the BM:UKK plus to the EU project. Payment for the eContent is possible.6) Uploading of the proved and enriched eContentThe proved and enriched eContent will be uploaded to the main project-portals.7) DisseminationThe materials will be disseminated to different educational portals in Austria: ViS:EU


Conferences, Fairs, Workshops, Competitions

March:

• Springday (competition)

April:

• Gegenstandsportaltreffen (Bad Hofgastein) (conference, workshop)

May:

• Netdays (Salzburg) (competition)

• Schoolhomepageaward (Salzburg) (competition)

• BildungOnline (Hall in Tirol) (conference, fair, workshops)

November:

• FutureLearning (Wien) (conference)

• Interpädagogica (in Vienna, Graz, Linz or Salzburg) (fair, workshops)

• ENIS Conference (conference)

December:

• eLeraning Conference (Eisenstadt) (conference, workshops)

BM:UKK is organising conferences, fairs, workshops and competitions on a regular basis:


Evaluations

Current examples are:

• eContent Evaluationthe use of eContent was evaluated

• Whiteboard / Activeboard Evaluation

• Interaktive Schultafeln im Unterricht in geisteswissenschaftlichen Fächern (Verein BildungOnline)

• Evaluierung von Whiteboards und deren Einsatz sowie Erstellung von Lernobjekten für den Einsatz im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht (Eduhi)

• Evaluierung von Whiteboards betreffend Einsatz beim Sprachen lehren/lernen (Salzburg Research

• Evaluierung von Whiteboards betreffend Einsatz im berufsbildenden Schulwesen (Burgenländischer Bildungsserver)

• Net-Books Evaluation

• Notebook Evaluation

BM:UKK evaluates according to actual needs in ICT:


Workshops and Training

ViS:AT supports and organises regularly Workshops

• Face to Face Workshops These workshops are organised by the particular project teams

• Online-Workshops Online-Workshops will be offered on demand


Prospectus and long term goals of ViS:AT

1. Further develop ViS:AT as a centre for interdisciplinary ICT projects nationwise by disseminating respective information about EU initiatives and possible cooperation partners

2. That ViS:AT further contributes to the e-content development and classification and takes an active and leading role in the development of the Austrian educational content pool.

3. Continue ViS:AT‘s role in collecting, developing and presenting quality ICT applications in education.

4. Part of this role will also see ViS:AT initiate and enable projects with a thematic focus. These projects are designed to show how interdisciplinary teaching with the use of ICT can be implemented in class as well as in open learning environments.


Expectations of EU Projects

1. Networking with other projects

2. Teacher training from the beginning of the projects

3. Parallel plattforms for pupils from the beginning of the projects

4. Communication between partnerschools

5. Exchange of experiences with other project-partners form other projects

6. Quality Assurance, common concept, common guidelines also applicable for other projects


Contact

Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und KulturAbteilung IT/3, IT-Systeme für Unterrichtszwecke

Virtuelle Schule Österreichhttp://www.virtuelleschule.at

e-mail: [email protected]