Enabling Teachers to Find, Share and Remix Digital Learning Resources

- a European Perspective

Tommy Byskov Lund, UNI•C, Denmark

Educational RepositoriesBridging the gap between users and content

Educational Repositories Network

• Develops guidelines and recommendations on educational repositories

• Comprises a collegial network of European repository nodes and stakeholders

EdReNe is a thematic networkFounded with co-funding from the European Union

K-12

A thematic network of central actorsUNI•C (Denmark)

EUN – European Schoolnet (Europe)

EENET - European Expert's Network for Education and Technology (Europe)

Menon Network (Europe)

EDEN - European Distance and E-Learning Network (Europe)

FWU - Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (Germany)

UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)

TLF - Tiger Leap Foundation (Estonia)

UNI-LJ-FMF, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Uni. of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

ITC - Centre of IT in Education (Lithuania)

Skolverket - The Swedish National Agencyfor Education (Sweden)

ENIS Austria (Austria)

NCTE –National Centre for Technology in Education (Ireland)

Kennisnet – Sticting Kennisnet Ict op School (The Netherlands)

Becta - British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (UK)

CNDP - Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique (France)

Giunti Interactive Labs (Italy)

BFU- Brancheforeningen for undervisningsmidler (Denmark)

AIE - Associazione Italiana Editori (Italy)

EduLearn (Portugal)

sDae - Sociedad Digital De Autores Y Esitores (Spain)

IML - Umeå University Department of Interactive Media and Learning(Sweden)

IKT-senteret (Norway)

Utdanningsdirektoratet (Norway)

VETAMIX (Finland)

Lektion.se (Sweden)

Intrallect Ltd (UK)

SLO - Netherland’s Institute for Curriculum Development (Netherlands)

CTIE - Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement (Switzerland)

APS IT-diensten (The Netherlands)

TLU-CET - Talinn University (Estonia)

CTE - Centre de technologie de l'éducation (Luxembourg)

Ontwikkelcentrum (The Netherlands)

LTScotland, Learning and Teaching Scotland (UK)

Encyclopaedia Britannica Education (UK)

DGIDC –Ministry of Education (Portugal)

ALLIANZ S.p.A. (Italy)Teachable.net (United Kingdom)Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica (former INDIRE)

(Italy)

SMART Technologies (United Kingdom)

ShareTEC (Europe)

KlasCement (The Netherlands)

Open University/OLnet (United Kingdom)

AtiT (Belgium)

http://www.atit.be/

2007-2010:10 expert workshops4 strategic seminarsFrom now: Semi-annual seminars

Four major themes

• Repository policies and strategies• Engagement of producers and users• Standards and interoperability• Rights issues

Engaging users

Building communities

Supporting communities

• Describe why you want an online community – to yourself and all involved stakeholders

• A dedicated and skilled community manager is essential

• A strong community cannot be built quickly – plan for long term sustainability

• Keep it simple• Make it easy to participate – for all members• Build trust and defend your brand

• Make the community the centre of your web site - never hide it

• It should be easy for users to invite friends• Reward user activity

Winning points is easy:• Posting a reaction on a contribution: +20• Giving a score: +10• Adding news: +40• Adding a site: +50• Adding a document: +70• Adding software: +100• Adding an article: +60

• Keep moderation to a minimum• Encourage and facilitate

real life meetings between users

Four major themes

• Repository policies and strategies• Engagement of producers and users• Standards and interoperability• Rights issues

doing the

(copy)RIGHTthing

” If the law is going to regulate your kid, it must do so in a way your kid can understand”

- Lawrence Lessig

Try for yourself:OER Remix :: The Gamehttp://www.opencontent.org/game/

Policy makers

• Advocate reform and development of copyright law

• Establish coherent licensing strategies for (publicly funded) learning resources

Teachers and students

• Encourage use of CC-BY licenses when publishing own work

• Provide recommendations and guidance on how to remix “incompatible” content

Institution management

• Set up institutional policies and strategies concerning IPR

• Encourage institutions to engage in sharing and production of open content

Publishers and content providers

• Support equal access to market to maximize innovation

• Interesting new business models should be showcased

More information, download reports, join the discussion…

edrene.orginfo@edrene.org

Tommy Byskov Lundtbl@uni-c.dk

@tommybyskovlund

Image Credits• Happy (BY-SA):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71905821@N00/ • Bridge of ants (BY-NC-SA):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kasimetcalfe/ • Bees (BY-NC-SA):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/max_westby/• Ants drinking (BY-NC-SA):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedromourapinheiro/ • Keep Right (BY-NC-SA):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/galerieopweg/ • Sleeping cat (BY-NC-SA):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaibara/• Clipart from openclipart.org (PD)• Copyright Ad (PD)