mixing educational content: publisher’s textbooks , teachers materials , open content

Mixing Educational Content: Publisher’s textbooks, teachers materials, open content

Leonie Verhoeff

The project

EdReNe 8th Strategic Seminar, 7th-8th May 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Nov 2011 – febr 2012 Part of ECK2 programme: remixing educational content Tools: Metaplus, Wikiwijs delen, Query builder Participants: Educational publishers, schools, teacher-communities

(Digischool)/repository owners SLO – detailled curriculum description / vocabularies (subjects:

Geography & Mathematics) Kennisnet / Edurep / Wikiwijs Individual teachers for evaluation of the project

Why this project?


From other (ECK 1) projects we learned:

Teachers need variation on their basic curriculum

The current search facilities do not provide enough useful teaching material (too much, not appropriate, not good enough)

This includes:- general search facilities (the Googles)- specific search facilities (teachers search portals like Wikiwijs)

Ambition


Achieve a fundamental improvement for the teacher who wants to make a good mix of educational resources and wants to use this mix in an effective way.

2 scenario’s:

– A. Search by structure of the textbook

– B. Search by subject matter / detailed curriculum description

Mixing and matching curriculum materials


Publishers content

Teachers content

Open content

http://maken.wikiwijs.nl/32240/Natuurlijk__Natuurbeheer

Metadata

Vakinhoud

Methodesite / Zoekportaal

Edurep

The architecture

Aanbieder A

Leerobjecten

Metadata

Aanbieder C

Leerobjecten

Metadata

Aanbieder B

Leerobjecten

Metadata

Leermaterialencollecties

http://metaplus.kennisnet.nl/metadateerfaciliteit/

Architecture


Mathematics

Geography

Methodesite Zoekportaal

EdurepMeta-Plus

Proeftuin Wiskunde

Noordhoff WikiwijsDigischool

Schooltvbeeldbank

WikiwijsDigi-school

Math United

Barlaeus-gymnasium

Studio VO Freudenthal Instituut

Leermaterialenbanken

Les 2.0 Dalton Voorburg

Methodesite Zoekportaal

Edurep

Leermaterialenbanken

Meta-Plus

Proeftuin Aardrijkskunde

WikiwijsDigischool

Schooltvbeeldbank

WikiwijsDigi-school

CodenameFutureLes 2.0

EduGIS

ThiemeMeulenhoff

CodenameFuture

Metaplus


Vocabularies / vdex

Geography

Mathematics

Wikiwijs delen


Query Builder new


http://querybuilder.edurep.nl/

Query builder – search results


De Geo Community (ThiemeMeulenhoff)


http://www.degeocommunity.nl/index.php?action=media;sa=album;in=53






Search results from the Query Builder : query is built by publisher

Codename Future


Search results from the Query Builder : query is built by publisher

http://welkominonzewijk.codenamefuture.nl/lessen.html



Getal & Ruimte - Noordhoff


query is built by teacher

Digischool : detailed curriculum


http://leermiddel.digischool.nl/vo/leermiddel/browse/v1?k=x


refine

Wikiwijs: edit & search


Metadata

Vakinhoud

New tools: a new ArchitectureOnderwijsBegrippen

kader

BronMetadata

Editor

MBE

vocabularies

http://metaplus.acceptatie.kennisnet.nl/demo-repo/

BME: Bron Metadata Editor





Back to the project : evaluation


What did we evaluate

How did we evaluate

What did we learn so far

Next steps

Evaluatie van de proeftuinen leermiddelenmix VO

Irma van der NeutMarian Kat-de Jong

What did we evaluate

1. Questions for the project / programme (ECK2)

2. Questions for teachers

3. Questions for content providors, repository owners and portal builders

Questions for teachers

1. Are the 2 search scenario’s (- structure of the textbook or - subject matter / detailed curriculum description) usefull for teachers when they are looking for additional or replacement teaching material?

2. Do teachers get enough and relevant search results when searching by detailed curriculum specifications?

How did we evaluate Sessions with 21 teachers Demonstration of both scenario’s Hands-on search excercises and evaluations

Interviews (14) with content owners who offered learning objects. Interviews with portal builders (both educational publishers and

open content owners) Interviews with metadata editors

Some results…..


Teachers appreciate searching for additional teaching material by (detailed) curriculum description (convenience, speed, better than Google)

Methodically working teachers prefer scenario A (search from the structure of the textbook)

Teachers expect that from Scenario A additional material found on the publishers website is judged on quality

Teachers expect that additional material is free and open (and easy to access)

Teachers wanted more info (metadata) on the learning objects to judge the individual learning objects (type of material, typical learning time, rating/peer review, …)

Queries build by publishers are not always what teachers wish or expect

Results and the future

The results are currently only available for internal use. We need more investigation

We will start other projects (primary school, vocational training, project linked data)

Results – metadata

• Takes a lot of time

• Can only be done by specialists on the subject

Results – curriculum based vocabularies

Nearly everybody finds it good to have a standard description of the curriculum

A detailed vocabulairy gives better search results

For Mathematics and geography the representation of the curriculum in the pilot was clear but there were remarks on complexcity and details

Any questions?

Now?

Or later: [email protected]


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