EMMA Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an implementation of a broader paradigm shift in learning A social constructivist approach to learning where students are proactively engaged in an open, democratic, inclusive and collaborative environment (Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky) Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by participants

1. Using Europeana for learning & teaching:
EMMA MOOC “Digital library in principle and
practice” experience
Anna Maria Tammaro (PhD), Parma University
Getaneh Alemu (PhD), Southampton Solent University
@getaneha
EMMA Webinar Series - Boost the impact of your MOOC using Europeana Collections
Date and time: May 25th 2016 14:00 CET

2. Paradigm shift in learning
EMMA Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an implementation of a broader
paradigm shift in learning
A social constructivist approach to learning where students are proactively
engaged in an open, democratic, inclusive and collaborative environment
(Jean Piaget & Lev Vygotsky)
Shifts in pedagogy and learner interaction
Multilingual content and interaction and co-creation of content by
participants

3. Digital library in principle and practice
University of Parma, Italy, Prof. Anna Maria Tammaro
Co-authors: Liliana Melgar, Eric Boamah, Getaneh Alemu, Elena Giusti
Duration: 4 weeks (6-8 hours a week), commenced April 12th 2016
More than 500 learners
Diversity and Number of participants in the light of MOOC
Digital libraries (DLs) for learning
DLs as platforms to co-create

4. EMMA MOOC - Digital library in
principle and practice
Digital
library as
a platform
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5. The role of metadata to boost
Europeana use in MOOC

6. Boost use of Europeana content in EMMA
Courses
• Open the Europeana portal and search for a painting
entitled “The School of Athens” by Raffaello.
• Using the Dublin Core metadata standard, fill-out the
metadata for it including descriptive, administrative,
structural and technical metadata details
• Please also write a summary of the painting in your
own words.
• By the way who are the philosophers depicted in
this painting? Do you think the metadata given in
Europeana is adequate, user-centred, and
complete? What is missing? You are here to add
meaning to the object.
• By completing this assignment, you will appreciate
the value of metadata, not only for textual information
objects but also for paintings and related resources
as well.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022703/oai_euromuseos_
mcu_es_euromuseos_MRABASF_0047.html

7. Europeana metadata
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022703/oai_euromuseos_mcu_es_euromuseos_MRABASF_0047.html
EMMA students asked for user-
centred, enriched metadata
suitable for kindergarten,
elementary and even high school
students.

8. Enriching existing content with metadata
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/renaissance-art-europe-ap/a/raphael-school-of-athens

9. Europeana collections in EMMA

10. The theory of enriching and filtering
(Alemu, 2014)

11. Enriching EMMA & Europeana with metadata
Europeana is a great collection of cultural heritage content with more than 50
million information objects platform
Automatic cross linking, cross-mapping of Europeana content with EMMA
metadata
EMMA MOOC Digital Library in principle and practice has encouraged the co-
creation of content & metadata using tags and metadata crowdsourcing

12. Thank You!
Getaneh.Alemu@solent.ac.uk
https://portal.solent.ac.uk/library/essential-info/meet-team/getaneh-alemu.aspx