Presentation for the Communia 2010 conference (http://communia-project.eu/) Creating and sharing OER in primary and secondary education: challenges and strategies

1. Creating and sharing OER in primary and secondary education: challenges and strategies Francesc Busquets [email_address] Educational Network of Catalonia (XTEC)

3. Two official languages: Spanish and Catalan

4. New Education Law (2006), focused on the work on key competences

5. Main challenges: multicultural integration, improvement of academic results

7. XTEC: Public Telematic Educational Network, offering Internet services since 1995 to all Catalan teachers and schools.

8. Creation and sharing of educational materials by teachers, stimulated by in-service teacher training

9. Promotion of free software and collaborative projects

10. 1x1 plan for secondary education, started in 2009

12. Quaderns Virtuals (Virtual Notebooks)

14. edu365.cat: student's portal

15. edu3.cat: video and audio productions

17. Made with Java

18. Same application, several delivery formats: Applet, Stand-alone frame, Java WebStart application

21. Authoring tool for teachers

22. Control of play conditions and student's answers

23. Integrated in Moodle

24. Library with 200 notebooks created by teachers

25. http://clic.xtec.cat/qv

27. Based on the OpenLearn Moodle repository http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

28. Open source development

29. http://alexandria.xtec.cat

31. http://phobos.xtec.cat/llibres

32. Exports to SCORM, PDF and other formats

33. Open source development, based on MyScrapbook

35. Digital learning resources for students

36. More than 15.000 interactive educational objects

37. > 12.000 hours of interaction

38. Student's desktops with specific tools

39. http://www.edu365.cat

41. Joint project between the Catalan Public Broadcasting Corporation and the Department of Education

42. Free to use in classrooms

43. http://edu3.cat

45. Agrega: Authoring tool and federated network of SCORM resources (Spanish project - Catalan node in progress)

46. LRE: European network of OER metadata repositories

48. Search engine and structured resource organizer

49. Teachers can enrich metadata with comments and ratings

50. open source development

51. http://merli.xtec.cat

53. Network of repositories of SCORM objects

54. Cataloged with LOM.es, a specific application profile of LOM

55. Open source development

56. http://www.proyectoagrega.es

58. Network of repositories of OER metadata

59. Fruit of the european projects Celebrate, MELT and LRE

60. Teachers can enrich metadata

61. http://lreforschools.eun.org

63. Copyright issues in assets used in some OER created by teachers: lack of knowledge about legal issues

64. Resources with poor or null metadata

65. Some repositories have oversized metadata profiles

67. Interoperability issues (also using standards!)

68. Lack of feedback. Users can comment and rate resources, but usually don't do it

70. Linking of networks and repositories, allowing extended and specialized search of resources

71. Simplification of user interfaces and metadata mandatory schemes

72. Tagging must be easy for teachers

74. Inclusion into in-service teacher training programs of information about legal issues, copyright, licensing and rights and duties related to OER

75. Use of Moodle as a central point of delivery and interaction with OER

76. Thank you!