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Antonio Saravia González

Director of Digital Society

Calgary, 14th November 2007

“Promoting Education in the Digital Age”

The Spanish experience

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. Programs in progress

3. Conclusions

2.1 Internet in Schools

2.2 Network of advanced centres for ICT use

2.3 Internet in the Classroom

2.4 Enseña

1.1 Red.es

1.2 Context

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Context

Red.es, point of connection of the administrations to launch, strengthen and complement actions to promote ICTs in Education: The combination of effort,

territorial cohesion and the sharing of initiatives

ICT Solution Providers

17 Regional Administrations

Central Administration

7,000,000 non-university students500,000 non-university teachers20,000 public and subsidised centres

50 public universities70,000 university teachers1,400,000 university students

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52%

85%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2003 2006

224.916

514.970

0100.000

200.000300.000

400.000500.000

600.000

2003 2006

Internet in Schools

InfrastructuresBroadband connectivity, local area networks and computer rooms

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10

010

2030

4050

60

2003 2006

48%

85%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2003 2006

Students per connected PC

Centres with local area network

PCs Broadband centres

THE PLANNED OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN EXCEEDED! €272 M€272 M

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Network of advanced centres for ICT use

National network of 44 innovative centres with more than 1,000

teachers and 11,000 pupils

Comprehensive project making it possible:

To evaluate ICT solutions in the process to integrate them in the classroom.

To offer guidelines to help to define educational policy.

To identify the most appropriate didactic-technological scenarios according to the kind of centre.

To show the advantages of the use of ICTs in teaching and learning.

€2.6 M€2.6 M

Our challenge: To have an active network of innovation centres,

where experiment and share all kind of ICT teaching and learning

experiences.

www.centrosavanzadostic.es

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Internet in the Classroom (IeA): 3 action lines

Equipment and infrastructure for the classroom

TrainingContent and Applications

Monitoring and Evaluation

Laptops...

PCs...

Projectors...

Interactive whiteboards...

Training materials...

Enseña

Digital content...

Agrega

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Executed: 46% of the total

IeA: Infrastructure

““Mobility and shared use”Mobility and shared use”

666

8.327

14.523

0

5.000

10.000

15.000

20.000

2005 2006 oct-07

842

5.987

10.240

02.000

4.0006.000

8.00010.000

12.000

2005 2006 oct-07

107

871

1.549

0

500

1.000

1.500

2.000

2005 2006 oct-07

2.050

7.8599.629

02.000

4.0006.000

8.00010.000

12.000

2005 2006 oct-07

No. of laptops Projectors Interactive whiteboards

Peripheral equipment

Wifi networks

01.054

7.477

0

2.000

4.000

6.000

8.000

2005 2006 oct-07

Equipment installed for use in the classroom

€128 M€128 M

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IeA: Digital contents and Applications

StandardOpen sourceScalabilitySharing (Nodes Federation)

National standard + Contents Development + Sharing among administrations

€4.3 M€4.3 M

€3.7 M€3.7 M

LOM-ES: is a LOM application profile developed in Spain to describe a learning object and similar

digital resources used to support learning. It is a LOM metadata schema extension. A XML binding

has also been developed.

Creating and cataloguing Digital Learning Objects (“creative commons licenses”)

Learning federation: access and sharing of digital learning objects using

interoperability standards by regional nodes - AGREGA

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IeA: Agrega

AGREGA = It is a federation of regional learning nodes repositories that provide teachers and pupils access to world-class online curriculum digital learning content using advanced interoperability technologies

Regional Node

Regional Node

Regional Node

Regional Node

Central Node

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To discover the real availability of ICT resources, their use and the capacities and the degree of satisfaction of teachers and students.

2006 study on ICT resources in education centres (nationwide)

IeA: 2006 study said....

“Training needs, especially in methodology”

A very high percentage of them would like supplementary training in the different areas

evaluated (especially methodology), even those areas where they have had previous

training.

“Little confidence at the technical and teaching-related levels”

The teaching staff are more widely trained in “Office-like packages” than in teaching methodology, but in both cases only one in five

teachers claim to be confident at a technical or teaching-related level.

How do teaching staff use them

and what relevant training do they

have? What are seen as the key obstacles to a

more widespread presence of ICT at

educational centres?

http://observatorio.red.es/estudios/educacion/index.html

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Training: two initiatives ongoing

Developing specific training materials aimed at preparing the teaching community, through different training categories, for the use and educational application of ICTs

Training materials11

Offering onsite courses and support services in the use of ICTs aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and families, to complement and reinforce the actions being offered by the Educational Administrations

Enseña22

€4.3 M€4.3 M

6 M6 M

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Teachers need training in the didactic use of ICTs

Integrating ICTs into the classroom's daily activities requires actions aimed at training in the effective and efficient use of technology

A new approach the creation of a skills map

Commitment to methodological training didactic proposals applied in the classroom

They are flexible and modular and adapt to the teacher's requirements

flexible they have 3 levels of difficulty

modular they are divided in independent training modules

Training categories for self-training, online tutoring, in-class teaching

Based on unified criteria usability, accessibility and interoperability

Created in accordance with the “creative commons” licensing system

Catalogued under the LOM-ES standard and packaged according to reference model SCORM 2004 Multiplatform

Guidelines

Objective

IeA: Training materials

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PRIVATE SECTOR: Definition and Implementation

Technical-Pedagogical Office + Developers

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: Guidance and validation Experts from central and regional administrations

Other experts of wide renown

Red.es: Co-ordination and Management

IeA: Training materials

Participating agents

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Enseña

Mainly aimed at teachers who need to improve their skills in the use of the technological resources available in the classroom and Teacher trainers who need to know the advanced use of these resources

Also aimed at parents that need to know about the technologies available at school and how they may facilitate the communication with the centre and tutors

As a complement and reinforcement of the Training actions that the

Educational Administrations are offering. All the 17 regions involved.

To familiarise teachers with the use of the technology, enabling them to face the small incidents that may arise in the classroom

Stimulate teacher’s interest for continuous professional development and update of their technology skills

Awareness raising on the adequate and safe use of ICTs

knowledge of tools made available to them (centre web portal, intranet

applications, email, chat)

6 M€6 M€

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1 Preparation of a set of materials adapted to every region status

Enseña

2 Onsite ICT courses to teachers and teacher trainers

Specific support and assistance to teachers in their own centres3

4 Onsite services of guidance and promotion for parents

5 Web environment of the programme with all information and documentation

Starting on December 07, this programme requires a narrow co-ordination with regional

administrations (17 ad-hoc projects indeed)

http://www.red.es/actividades/ensena.html

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1st NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INTERNET IN THE CLASSROOM

(dynamization initiative with teacher as protagonist) 3 M€3 M€

Virtual conference established as a forum where teachers give and share experiences, and which will serve as a training and learning mechanism between equals, over more than 6 months: 1 April -30 October 2008

IeA: National Conference on 2008

Madrid

Cantabria

Andalusia

Catalonia

Multisite conference which uses ICTs as a mechanism of interaction between the sites, enabling greater participation of teachers (approx. 3.000 teachers onsite) throughout 3 days, 26, 27 and 28 June 2008 in 4 sites simultaneously: Barcelona, Granada, Santander y Madrid

www.congresointernetenelaula.es

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To analyse and share the best ICT solutions to favour school-family communication

Study on school-family communication technologies solutions (2008)

To discover the real availability of ICT resources, their use and the capacities and degree of satisfaction of teachers and pupils from the standpoint of teaching and learning

Quantitative studies on ICT resources in education centres (2006 and 2008)

To go into greater detail in the factors and contexts that have enabled success and in the teacher's basic skills. The best practices will be documented audiovisually.

Qualitative study on “best practices in the use of ICTs” (2007-2008)

To prepare an online catalogue with the best ICT solutions and best practices for this type of student with special educational needs

Study on the use of ICTs for students with Special Educational Needs (2007-2008)

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IeA: Follow up and Evaluation

2 M€2 M€

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Establishment of the Co-operation Framework between the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Education and the Regional Administrations, to strengthen and complement the strategies for promoting ICTs in Education.

Red.es as connecting point between the administrations and the private sector: detection of synergies and sum of efforts.

1st strong infrastructure action in centres: broadband, local area networks, PCs, etc. (“Internet in Schools”)

Centralised purchasing Economy of scale Multiplication of results

Establishment of a network of innovative education centres in ICT use (“Network of Advanced Centres”)

Model of introduction of ICTs in the classroom (“Internet in the Classroom”):

equipment for the classroom based on mobility and shared use producing and sharing digital contents based on standards reinforcing teacher training with specific actions launching actions of Dynamization in the use of ICT mainly to teachers carrying out continuous follow up and evaluation

Conclusions

KEY FACTORS IN OUR LAST 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE

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