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ENGAGEs USErs 2 SHARE (universal) LEARNing

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ENGAGEs USErs 2 SHARE (universal) LEARNing

27th of November 2009

Hans De Four – Coordination KC

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Agenda

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Are you member?

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You should!

http://tinyurl.com/kcstandaard

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Agenda

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KC History

1998 The first stepsVoluntary initiative from a teacher

2002Support from MoE Flanders

2007 Initiative from a non-profit organization

(EduCentrum vzw)

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KC Objectives

Don’t reinvent the wheel Work together! 1+1=3

KC is about: Exchanging learning objects and good practices Stimulating cooperation between everyone involved in education:

teachers, schools, organisations, … Helping to find a solution for the digital divide

Helping to close the digital gap

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KC Target group

Flanders, the Netherlands, … All functions (18+):

Teachers Headmasters ICT coordinators …

All educational types: Nursery education Primary education Secondary education Adult education

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KC Team

20 colleagues paid thanks to the support of Ministry of Education Flanders, several European projects, different foundations, private companies with focus on education, …

THE TEAM4 full time teachers + 9 half time teachers4 to 5 developers1 colleague for administrative tasks1 project manager bridging the digital gap

Some volunteers (teachers)

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KC Focus

Bottom-up, human, social and not technical CMS is our own idea and development Moderation of content and metadata Quality IEEE-LOM standard: interoperability Creative commons

WEB2.0 …

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WEB 2.0

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Registration is free

Access to– Learning objects

• Reactions • Ratings

– Profile of members – Page to contribute

Personal profile based on e-mailaddress– Save your personal favorites – Communicate via your personal mailbox– Receive the personal newsletter – Earn personal points – Copy personal RSS-feeds

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KC Communication

Free subscription:– KC&Zo: News about KC– KC&Zo Weekend: • Latest entries (Saturday 08:00)

– KC&Co: Commercial content Only on invitation:– KC Echo: For policy makers

Internal mailbox for all users

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KC Projects

• Content from KCextended with specific content & functionalities

• Digital lessons ‘KlasCement BIS’• A high level for languages• Digital whiteboards • Goals in ICT-compentences for primary and beginning of

secondary education • Special care for learning • eTwinning• Open source software• Hot Potatoes• Apple• ThinkQuest Web environment• Universal learning objects

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KC European projects

Take Shape Share (Leonardo da Vinci): Connecting repositories EduRep (NL) and KlasCement (BE)

Edrene: Educational Repositories Network eContentPlus

– EduTubePlus: Online database with professional & user generated videos

– ASPECT: Learning Resource Exchange (LRE - EUN)Connecting repositories through standards

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Agenda

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Stimulate sharing and (inter)activity

KlasCement Points (Credits)– Start: 1000 points– View contribution: - 2 points– Add contribution: + 40 to + 100 points– Comment, rate, …: + 5 to + 20 points– International Day of the Teacher: + 50 points– Birthday: + 50 points– Promoting KC or helping or team: + … points– LATER: Exchange points to buy things via KC (250 points = 1 euro)

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Stimulate sharing quality

KlasCement Prizes– Free entrance tickets for cinema, amusement parks, …– Books– DVD’s of quality movies– USB-sticks– Licenses for software

KlasCement Awards– Every two year– Best content based on

• User review• Hits• Ratings• Reactions

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Stimulate the use of KC

Our advice: Work with and invest in teachers (bottom-up) Provide quality Communicate fast Be helpful Send interesting newsletters Keep it / IT simple!

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Agenda

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Why?

EUN-project: Melt– Thinking about objects that travel well

eTwinning– Provide teachers with content they can use with

their partner eQNet– Quality of universal learning objects

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Selection criteria - Research

A learning object is called universal when it:1. is independent from any language:

– images– applets for sciences and maths– exercises for mathematics

2. is in English (as soon as students know English)3. is open, can be adapted (translated)4. is in many languagesBut even then, it is sometimes not universal when it not relates to national curricula

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Use of universal resources - Research

75% of teachers: Yes, we use resources from abroad! Source?

– Netherlands (also 5000 users from NL)– UK – USA

…– Canada, Germany, SpainNOT: Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania

But also: The need to look behind borders is not present, because of KC

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What kind of universal content at KC?

User generated content No cooperation with– Editors– Companies with educational content

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Travels well! Used well?

Projectsite Universal at KC:– Not yet promoted by KC– Not well known– Not used (content is also at KC)

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Consequences

Part of KlasCement is open for the whole world– User registration in English– Members: Users from other countries in ONE list?– Content: What if a user shares something in a

language we don’t understand?• Moderation of quality: Who?• Universal content?• People in every country and general criteria needed!

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Example / Pilot project

Flanders + The Netherlands + …: .net– www.klascement.net

• All content, all members• Part of it is universal

• www.klascement.be: Flemish content, Flemish members– Support form MoE Flanders

• www.klascement.nl: Dutch content, Dutch members– Support from MoE Netherlands? Kennisnet?

• …

Back-end, platform, database is ready– TODO: Application profile per country– TODO: Translation

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Other project sites

ICT competenceswww.klascement.net/icteindtermen

Online language learningwww.klascement.net/bis

Digital whiteboardswww.klascement.net/digiborden

Apple / Open source / Digital gap / …

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Agenda

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Content

• ±25 new objects on a schoolday• NOT ONLY ICT CONTENT!

Learning objects

10344 objects26th of November 2009

Multimedia

Calendar: 702

Docs4953

Sites 2406

Ware589

Article572

Image957

Video130

Audio 12

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User research

1139 respondents Discovered KC:– By coincidende: 34%– Klasse (Educational monthly magazine): 29%– Google: 23%– Colleagues: 16%– …– Flyer: 2%

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Use of KC

1. To find learning objects2. To discover new ideas for my lesson3. …4. To get in contact with colleagues

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On average our users visit KC once a week

Google Analytics: 4000 absolute unique visitors a day (max 6500)

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Finding content on KC

1. Via keyword in search engine2. Thanks to newsletter3. Via menubar on top of KC4. …5. …6. Advanced filtering

But all possibilities are very well used

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Use of content on KC

1. As inspiration for myself2. As exercise for my students3. As learning object for my students4. As illustration or presentation for my students

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Adjusting content of KC

1. I adjust the content of the learning object2. I adjust the learning object to the level of my

students3. I adjust the lay-out4. I add extra exercises

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What users say about KC

Most popular opinions:1. Logging on is easy2. Moderation of content is useful3. Downloading is easy4. Asking to register is worthful5. The website is fast

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About quality of learning objects

This is very good:1. Content itself2. Linguistic 3. Level of content4. Usefulness5. Lay-out

No opinion:Relation with final objectives

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Most used

1. Menubar: Documents2. Printing content3. Easy search by keyword4. Menubar: Websites5. Newsletters6. Advanced search by filter7. Hot Potatoes project

website8. Mailing content to

colleagues

9. Themes10. Related content

(serendipity)11. Rating content12. Menubar: Software13. Commenting content14. Sorting content15. Put this content in my

favorites

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Least used

1. Projectsite with universal objects

2. Adding users to my friends3. Projectsite Apple4. Projectsite Languages5. Projectsite eTwinning6. RSS Feeds7. Projectsite Adult language

learning8. Last viewed by

9. Copying content to Delicious10. Projectsite Classy (free

webspace en blogs)

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Who contributes?

Members: Men: 33% Women : 66%

Contributors: 5% of the members (About 2500 members) Men: 66% Women: 33%

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Why not contributing?

1. I have no time2. I think I have no offer3. I hesitate if others can use this4. It’s a difficult procedure5. I fear problems with copyright

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What would stimulate sharing?

1. I’m happy like it is now. I already have a lot useful content in return.

2. A small present (filmticket, book, …)3. KlasCement-points and possibility to buy things4. ….5. Be paid for my content by KC6. Be paid for my content by users7. More visibility at KCQuote“I get a lot more positive feedback at KC then at my school.”

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Copy of user research?

PDF – 3 pages – English

PDF – A lot more pages – Dutch

hans@klascement.net

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Agenda

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Feedback / Questions

What do you think about KlasCement?– Is it useful? (well structured ?)

– Would it work in your country?

What did you learn? What did you remember from this presentation?

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Thanks for your attention

Still more questions? Suggestions? Cooperation?

hans@klascement.net