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Intergeo - Overview
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Interactive Geometry is a way to improve mathematics education with the help of a computer. With the help of sophisticated software sketches and figures can be brought to life, comparable to what movies mean to images. Although many examples of helpful activities that were created using Interactive Geometry Software exist, interactive geometry software is still not used regularly in classrooms. In fact, many teachers do not know about the new possibilities, or they do not have access to the necessary resources.
The EU-co-funded project Intergeo will attack the three main barriers for a EU-wide adoption of the existing material: missing search facilities, lack of interoperability, and missing quality information. The available content will be enriched with curricular Meta-data that makes it easy to find the proper examples for a certain teaching situation. The intellectual property rights for the content will be cleared. Teachers should not have to bother whether they are allowed to redistribute material to their students or not.
Also, a common file format for interactive geometry software will be provided. Because the project consortium includes leading commercial and open source software suppliers for interactive geometry this format will enable teachers to use the content regardless of which software they use. Finally, experts in mathematics education will test material for its classroom suitability and make this data available to others.
Teachers all over Europe will be able to use and re-use quality teaching material. The project partners already identified more than 3000 resources that will serve as an initial seed for the database. User contributions to it are highly encouraged, both for content and quality assessment. The project involves contact persons from the governments and school administration, as well as curriculum experts. Software and content providers as well as people working in math education can join the project as associate partners. After the official project duration of three years the infrastructure will be transferred to the public for a sustainable success of the initiative.Intergeo Web Site |
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The main objective of the Intergeo Project is to make digital content for mathematics teaching in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.
Intergeo will...- offer content in a searchable and metadata-tagged portal.
- enable users to use their software of choice by specifying a common file format based on open standards.
- test available material in the classroom. All stakeholders, software teams, resource authors, teachers and learners will be involved, in order to promote quality enhancement cycles.
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Intergeo Actions
- Geo Skills: GeoSkills is the name of the language with which resources are tagged in topics, competencies, and levels. The GeoSkills ontology is an effort at encoding the competencies, topics, and educational levels of the mathematics curriculum standards throughout Europe. Its main purpose is to be the language of annotation and query of the resources of i2geo, the intergeo platform. It is the main ingredient of it cross-curriculum search. GeoSkills is an ontology that is collaboratively built. more info
- The I2G file format: The Intergeo (I2G) file format aims to be the convergence of the common features of the current DGS together with the vision of future developments and the opinion of external experts. Its final version based on modern technologies and planed to be extensible – to capture the flavour of the different DGS – could serve as a standard in the DGS industry. more info
- I2G Metadata: The Intergeo Metadata Schema is the model of information that is manipulated to characterize a resource within the intergeo platform. Its components include bibliographic information, technical information, and pedaogic information. Most of the information in the metadata is to be processed in the Intergeo platform both input and searched for. The I2G metadata specification provides a LOM application profile, that is, a specification of a subset and extension of the IMS LOM specification. more info
- I2G and Standards: The Intergeo project intends to apply widespread standards as much as possible. This activity lists the standards considered and how they are applied within the project. more info
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WP1 - Project Management
This work package consists of all the coordination efforts for the consortium with partners all over Europe, both technical and administrative. Management tasks will be handled directly by the Project Office located at Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.
The Project Office will handle all communication and dissemination between the different actors in the project: the Consortium and its General Assembly, the Steering Committee, the Country Representatives, the User Representatives, and the Work Package leaders. These structures are set-up and maintained in this work package.
In coordination with WP8 (Evaluation), the technical and scientific quality and progress of the work is monitored and, if necessary, measures to maintain the quality and progress have to be taken.
The Project Office will also ensure that all administrative, legal, organisational and financial aspects are handled properly as defined in the consortium agreement and other contracts. It will prepare or consolidate the necessary documentation. Also, EC review meetings, audits, follow-up proposals and the integration of new partners or replacements are within the responsibility of the Project Office. |
WP2 - Content Classification
This work package constitutes of the necessary work to define the ontologies and the metadata structures for the available content and future extensions. These will be needed for content integration and searchability. |
WP3 - Content Integration
The available content and further contributed content shall be collected in a central database system and annotated with metadata to make it more accessible and (re-)usable. This database will be available during and after the project.
A common file format based on the OpenMath standard and an API shall be defined and published, that captures the basic capabilities of interactive geometry in order to enable users to exchange content. The necessary technical work is done to enable major software packages (both commercial and open source) to read and write content data in that unified interoperable format.
Interoperability will promote the adoption of our standard. The available on-line content will be the bootstrap basis to attract new users, reviewers, authors, and software teams and to reach self-sustainability. |
WP4 - Community Platform
WP4 is a supporting package for the whole project with the main responsibility to create and maintain the technical infrastructure for the content database.
We do not want to develop a new platform, but we will use an existing one, like, for example, the Universal Brokerage Platform (known from the educanext project), or the GNU Edu platform that is developed by Project partner 2. The necessary adjustments and the actual set-up as well as the user support and documentation are objectives of this work package.
Four user groups should be supported in the web portal:- Authors can propose a new resource for publication, with an explicit intellectual property license, propose changes to their resource, and can be contacted while still respecting their privacy,
- Administrators can comment, review and validate a resource for publication or dissemination in a given context,
- Reviewers can enlist for experiment on a resource, report and review it in the context they did the experiment, give their pupils and students the right to comment on a resource they experimented in their class,
- Teachers can download a resource according to its copyright statement, and search for a resource according to criteria such as country, school level, pedagogical purpose and more.
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WP5 - Gathering Communities of Practice
In order to reach all countries of the EU, in particular the new member countries, this work package strives to gather key users of DGS in different areas of the EU. A network of early adopters will be identified, and this network will be solidified by adding more users from the same region, and by encouraging communication between these communities of practice.
Seven local user meetings all over Europe (Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, France) will help to provide a complete European coverage. Teachers and Schools that are suitable for Quality assessment will be identified within the Communities of Practice.
User groups are not differentiated by the tools they use, but by their regional identification and thus the content they need. This also includes users from software that is not represented in the consortium.
Another objective is the acquisition of further content that is currently in the public domain or with unknown legal status. Users can submit content to be reviewed, and this content will be included either in the internal or external review process. We will offer means to easily apply a Creative Commons or Public Domain license during submission, and content without IPR clearance or requiring a fee will be rejected. |
WP6 - Quality Assessment (of content)
Most content, in particular the content stemming from public domain or other "free'' sources is not reliable with respect to its use in the classroom or other teaching/learning situations. It is not sufficient to make the available content easily accessible, but we also have to establish a means of quality control. Also, we have to bootstrap a test routine for pedagogical and technical quality of geometry content.
We will set up quality standards for geometry content in e-learning in order to enable both users and content stakeholders to verify the compliance of the content to a defined level of quality, in particular the efficiency and usability in classroom contexts. These will be published both in a report on best practises and guidelines for external testing. Also, we will verify the ontologies and curriculum mappings established in WP3. |
WP7 - Dissemination and Susatinability
The success of the project is connected to the successful integration of the work of existing users, as well as the activation of old and new user communities. This is also crucial for the sustainability: The project delivers a sound basis – open standards and environments filled with quality content – for handing over its results to "the community", which, of course, has to exist to make this approach successful.
This work package adds to the dissemination efforts that are already done in WP5 (Gathering Communities of Practise). In particular, the public web server inter2geo.eu is (re-)set-up and its contents are kept up-to-date, and a conference shall be organised.
The documentation (writing manuals etc.) of the project is not included in this work package, but distributed to the respective work packages where the work is done.
Furthermore, the research groups among the partners are expected to present the project at major education conferences, and to publish about it in scientific journals. However, this work is not included in the project work plan as it belongs to the main occupation of the involved researchers anyway and it is not funded by the EC. |
WP8 - Evaluation
This work package supports the management of the project and shall ensure a constant level of quality of the whole action. While management monitors the progress of the project mainly by interaction with the project heads and checking the delivery of deliverables, both an internal and an external evaluation process will assess the quality of the deliverables and the project as the whole. |
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Consortium
- University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd (Cinderella)
- Université Montpellier (Geoplan/Geospace/TracenPoche)
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- Cabrilog SAS (Cabri II Plus/Cabri Junior/Cabri 3D)
- University of Bayreuth (GEONExT)
- Université du Luxembourg (GeoGebra)
- University of Cantabria , Santander, Spain
- TU Eindhoven
- Maths for More (WIRIS)
- University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice
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