The Program

http://www.edrene.org/

Notes

Past, present and future of KlasCement Hans De Four, Head of PR & Events and Simon Dedoncker, Co-ordinator KlasCement 

• 22 year ago Klascement started with Hans De Four and his students of secondary education → Klascement is a bottom-up iniative that was adopted by minstry of education (first through funding, then through ownership)
  • currently Klascement team is 24 persons
• Currently 220 000 members, very high rise in the recent 3-4 years (previous high rice 2007-2009)
  • 2 out of 3 teachers is a member of Klascement (which is a lot because low activity memebers are deleted)
  • 57 000 OER → the reason why teachers come to Klascement
• classy.be → under klascement tool where teachers can start websites (joomla, wordpress) → klascement hosts, teachers make
•  oefen.be → where excersises are open for students 
• 60% contet is documents (pdf, ppts, docs etc) - you can print them and so on - see the prosent as a positive one
• teachers use Klascement for inspiration and for to share to their students interesting resources
• all OER are licenced with CC-licence
• Klascement team
  • 10-12 moderators - validation → they check accuracy, spelling mistakes; they do not do pedagogical curation; copyright check
  • pr-team
  • innovation team (coding, accessibility, UX)
  • policy
• Klascement has a website where to check places to find open pictures → voisi lisätä meidän faq samankaltainen
• organisations and users have their own profile pages → social media aspect
• triad of klascement : find oer, find experts, co-create
  • help teachers find answers and use new technologies
• more parents and grandparents are joining
  • 2700 new members per week
  • most teachers already present, so parents, student and government people are joining in
• publisher relations
  • has been sometimes hard
  • since a few yers it's been possible to tag if content is made to match some published book
• incentives to teachers to share
  • point-system 
    • they are looking into flipping the point-system to positive
    • there has been some gamification of the system → users writing short copy-paste comments to get points
  •  people with a lot of points get cinema tickets
  • moderators can also give prizes to contiributors that have made something great
• search engine uses only keywords → moderators add keywords
  • more about this tomorrow
• some subjects get less hype/less sharing because their high profile - fex luonnontieteet, jolla koulut kilpailevat keskenään

UNESCO and OER Marie-Anne Persoons Advisor International Policy, Flemish Department of Education and Training

• unesco has a holistic approach to education: education as a common global good
• unesco re-defined open to mean cost-free, focus on sharing and re-distributing
• OER milestones
  • 2001 MIT open courseware
  • 2002 creation of term OER at Unesco
  • 2004 OECD Guidelines for Quality Provision of Cross-Border Higher Education
  • 2005 MOOC's as a competing term (however not all moocs are oer)
  • 2011 conference on Open courseware → feeling that universities cannot do it by themselves
  • 2012 1st World Conference on OER - call to the goverments, OER decleration
  • 2015 UN 2030 Agenda and Education 2030 Framework - focus on access to quality education
  • 2017 2nd World Conference on OER at Ljubljana
  • 2017 desicision of UNESCO General Conference to create a leagal document
  • 2019 the legal document accepted at Unesco general conference
• monitoring included in the recommendation, soft law, peer pressure
• Unesco now sees OER as a concrete way to realise SDG 4 - ensuring equitable access to quality education and lifelong learning
• First report will possibly be at the next Unesco general conference at 2021
  • could also be mentions in the yearly global education report
• määritelmästä keskustellaan vielä Unescon asiantuntijoiden kesken - mitä määritelmä lopulta tarkoittaa

Wai-Not: Accessible internet for everyone / Toll-Net: future teacher Nancy Van Belleghem - Project worker WAI-NOT (not present, Hans presented instead) and Katrien Bernaerts - Project coordinator Toll-net

• Toll-Net
  • erasmus+ rahoitus, norway, uk ja belgia yhteistyö
  • analytiikkaa, jonka perusteella arvioidaan minkä tasoinen materiaali sopii parhaiten opettajille (ei pakoteta, vaan voi valita myös alemman tai ylemmän tason materiaalin)
  • oppipolku
  • learning object available at Klascement, future teacher website and epale
• Wai-Not
  • especially for children with disabilities, especially language problems
    • wai-not is a social network for them
    • safe network that works with pictocrams
      • pictocrams are translated to words
    • chat is moderated 

VO-content

Bottom-up OER for secondary education in The Netherlands and Ron Zuijlen  - Managing director VO-content

• vo-content has a membership model for secondary education schools, non-profit organisation runs it, currently 30% schools participate
  • schools contrivute 9 euros per student per year → a total of approx 2.5 million euros is used
  • they make the content and share, metadata and make it in Wikiwijs
• started from the situation that secondary education books were too expensive (even though the books were only rented)
• first material they started to work on was mathematics - for fixing the price and also enabling different means of teaching the same subject (one learning method does not suit all)
• open digital content for 13 subjects licensed under cc-by-sa
• 120 different year-long courses (100-280 hours) all composed out of modules (8-12 hours)
  • materiaalit voivat korvata kokonaisuudessaan maksulliset materiaalit
• vo-content buys content from smaller publishers and teachers
• vo-contet makes quality assurance
• not everything is free - premium content for schools that participate

Tutory.de: A next gen OER online editor Thomas Haubner - CEO Tutory

• problem: how to differentiating learning materials for learners
• editor + repository - mainly editor
• oppimisaihoita/moduuleja/worksheetin osia joita voi drag-and-drop kullekin oppilaalle sopiviksi työkirjoiksi
  • monenlaisia tehtävätyyppejä 
• jokainen elementti on lisensoitavissa
  • ei "ylilisensointia" eli kuville laitetaan aina jokin lisenssi (tai pidetetään kaikki tekijänoikeudet), mutta ei-tekijänoikeudelliset tekstipalat eivät saa lisenssiä
  • question: is none only for materials that do not have copyright or also for materials that teachers do not want to share under cc
• tutory is closed source "because it's valuable"
• cc-lisenssit ovat pelkästään pienille osille, googlea varten ilmoittavat sopivimman lisenssin koko aineistolle

Tes Global: Understanding the Value of Teachers’ Content Shade Omishola - Head of External Partnerships

• TES global has a lot of different aspects: jobs, engage with other teachers, resources, other aspects
• tes.com started as Times Educational supplement, is currently independent social teacher media
• collections, front page divided to different educational sectors
• 900 000 paid for and free classroom resources and lesson plans; 52% are free
• teachers can buy and sell resources to one another
  
  • tes takes commission of the paid resources (the amount depends on the whole revenue gained)
• most users come to resources specifically
• curriculum tagging - what metadata model?
• currently doing more live sessions

NDLA Sigurd Trageton - Head of NDLA and Knut Skifjeld - Head of NDLA Explore

• NDLA has been around for 13 years (norweigian digital learning arena)
• repository and website to access; same interface for student and teacher
• resources for 104 different courses for secondary contet
• NDLA provides platform and content
• mostly licensed with cc-licence
• 98% of taechers know NDLA, over 60% use NDLA in their teaching
• want it to be easier to find things
• ndla has visualaisation on how to use cc-licences → it is available at github! ndla-account
• ndla sharing arena has not been very succesful - next year they'll contract teachers to kickstart the arena-part
• they try to make content available in different paltforms lti, also working on microsoft
  • resources available in onenote; lti-connection to be able to access the resouces from onenote
• standards are important: for tools, licenses, metadata and technical platforms
  • currently talking with IMS to make standards of NDLA tools
  • h5p for tools
  • cc for licences
  • talkwall
• in norweigian they are building a common portal for educational data
  • for schools to buy and access materials
• Upcoming also Frida for primary and lower secondary school, aslo funded by municipalities

Emerging technologies  David Massart - LRE Subcommittee Facilitator

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Welcome + A recommender system for KlasCement Bram Faems, UX Designer KlasCement

• 2 implementations of AI
• new school year calendar
• new deadline for Klascement moderators: contributions by users should be online in less than 10 working days
• helping moderators
  • process: moderators came up with ideas, then they were asked to evaluate how frequently they would use it and how impactful it is, and after that developers evaluated how time consuming it would be to implement it → how impact, how frequenzy, low effort targets were chosen 
  • choosing thumbnails speeded up
    • people can search within pixabay and flickr open licence to choose a tumbnail-picture (moderators choose and describe it)
    • due to new accessibility guidelines thumbnails need to be described → what's in the picture 
  • automated keywords
    • title and description based keyword suggestions that moderators choose from
      • they use a company to buy this service
      • problem: they use user generated keywords as the reference data
      • currently the ai does not take into account the subject and the educational level → to fix this, they changes the moderator process
  • linked resources based on ai
    • in the future an algorithm will help moderators in tipping related resources
• a resource can have only one resource type because the type is linked to the next steps on what they need to input (link, different kin of file)

Skolon: Digital learning for everyone Sebastian Matuska -  Business Director

• skolon is an edtech company trying to simplify and digitalize learning
• "premium service" paying customers 35000 → a packet of digital tools?
• the road to digital schools → find, equal access, inidividualized learning, increased accessibility (sla 24/7)
• an independent platform connecting all digital learning tools and makes them easy to use

AOE.FI: How and why Anna Lindfors - Project manager and coordinator at CSC - IT Center for Science

• people were interested in: kulttuuriperintöaineistojen käyttö oppimateriaaleissa, schematic web, sources of material, kirjautumattomuus, lack of curation

Increased use of educational repositories through behavioural insights  Patrick Vandenberghe - Policy & Communications Advisor  workshop

• https://padlet.com/bram10/edrene
• speaker used to work for communications for campaigns (for wicked problems and such) to make people change their behavious
• easy, attractive, social, timely
  • f.ex. yellow trash can in a green background, footprints on the ground directing to it, cleaniness of the trashbin
  • example. Klascement put "safe and free" next to the register-icon → increased 10% people pushing the button

Remembrance education Simon Schepers - Project manager  Special Committee for Remembrance Education

• remembrance education has their own page in klascement
  • main database in klascement and sites elsewhere
• memorial site is designed to reserve the memory and for the people that were left behind → this is a challange as they are not desgined for education
• remembrance education deals with history that is still present today

VIAA: The Archive for Education Leen Debruyn - Project Manager Education

• closed service for Flamish teachers to acces audiovisiual resources
• living labs - they go to the schools or the teachers come to them to co-create the materials

i3Learning platform Anneke Verbeeck - Education consultant 

• i3 technologies makes hardware and software 
• i3learnhub is a platform for creating and sharing lessons and working with students
• have a library similar to it's learning
• software for digital boards

The Learning Resource Exchange Elena Shulman - Semantic Interoperability & Content Quality Expert

• edrene is supported by European schoolnet subcommittee
  • European schoolnet is a organisation for European Ministries of Education
• LRE subcommittee is a smaller group of ministries of educations
  • a place to share and enhance OER within Europe
  • made up of: Klascement, Educa.ch, pdst tehcnology in education, insiituto nazionalae domentatzione, drecao-geral de estatistica da educacao e cinecia, cti + sweden ( ? )
  • open to ministeries, regional authorities and so one
  • members participate in european and international projects
  • networking
  • white papers
• question: what is your relation to the X5Gon EU-project? 
  • none what so ever, haven't heard of it
• LRE serves the ministries and their portals, not really the end user
  • LRE helps them find OER in standard-based format
  • european schoolnet vocaulary bank for education has several vocabularies
  • lredirectory.eun.org directory of the collections
  • meant to be a a collection of resoures that make sence in many european countries
  • LRE harvesting is only available to members
• question: how do the ministries then use the portal? do you have info on usage amounts
  • harvest some resources
• question: you say standard based but what standards?
  • lom

i-Learn: boosting the adoption of educational technology in Flanders Ambra Neri - Program manager i-Learn

• developing an online portal with educational applications, työpöytänäkymä
• rahoitus belgian ja hollannin hallitukselta
• training and couching for using edutech