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Share.TEC - Overview
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Share.TEC stands for “Sharing Digital Resources in the Teaching Education Community”, a 3-year project (2008 to 2011) co-funded by the European Community’s eContentPlus programme. Share.TEC is devoted to fostering a stronger digital culture in the TE field and to supporting the development of a Europe-wide perspective among those working in and with the TE community.
To do this, Share.TEC is developing an online platform which will help practitioners across Europe search for, learn about and exchange resources of various kinds, and will support the sharing of experience about the use of those resources. The system is primarily designed for teacher educators and for teachers engaged in pre-service education and continuous professional development; it will also cater for developers and publishers of digital resources for TE.
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Working in their own language and – most importantly - with the concepts and terms typical of their particular context of practice, users will be able to perform personalised searches across a “federation” of TE-focused repositories and collections managed by public and private institutions throughout Europe. Project partners’ substantial collections will represent the starting core of this federation, which will steadily expand and diversify as new repositories join and individual users share their own resources. Indeed, Share.TEC’s efforts to propagate innovation in TE will very much rely on the active involvement of users, and the engagement of existing professional communities and other stakeholders across Europe is central to building a sustainable system capable of meeting changing TE needs beyond the project period.Share.TEC Web Site |
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The Share.TEC consortium consists of leading European institutions involved in teacher education and the project brings this competence together in a common attempt to establish a functional portal of TE content. Important project objectives is to develop semantic, linguistic/cultural and technical interoperability and to foster reusability among other things.
In Share.TEC, leading European institutions involved in teacher education and in the development /distribution of digital resources for TE come together in a common endeavor to establish a highly visible and functional portal with advanced brokerage services that provide personalized access to a wide-ranging federation of TE content. Founded on the critical mass of partners’ quality-proven TE resources, Share.TEC will interlink with external databases and with distributed TE resources generated by the user community, thus allowing constant enrichment and diversification of the service.
Share.TEC will encompass a wide range of resource types: as well as material suitable for formal, structured TE, the system will cover contents suitable for individual and self-guided CPD, for supporting collaborative learning, as well as schemata or plans that model reusable learning paths. End-users will be able to gain a clear picture of the pedagogical characteristics distinguishing the resources they retrieve, a factor that will strongly promote reuse in authentic contexts.
Share.TEC is based on a collaboratively-developed TE ontology that is the foundation for a multicultural model designed to capture semantics from a variety of educational systems and cultural settings. As there is no existing endeavor in the TE field with these characteristics, Share.TEC has the potential to become a practical reference point fostering community-based participation.
The specific objectives are:- Semantic, linguistic and technical interoperability
- Fostering reusability
- Provision of an effective means for describing heterogeneous TE resources while maintaining compliance with international standards and spec
- Provision of an effective brokerage system for TE
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Expected results
The Share.TEC project covers a period of three years and includes different kinds of deliverables and activities which will generate results and solutions.
General results
Making quality contents for TE across Europe more accessible, reusable and exploitable - Share.TEC will provide integrated access to different databases of quality resources for TE owned by different public and private institutions and distributed in different places across Europe.
Foundation of a European network of communities in the area of TE resources - The network will include both communities born around the project and existing professional communities. These communities will be an important means for propagating educational innovation based on digital resources sharing across Europe.
Sustainable and coordinated expansion of federated TE content aggregation - This result will be obtained by:
1) providing facilities for interlinking with other databases;
2) activating a network of user communities which can continue to grow after project conclusion;
3) providing integrated access to professionally developed and/or commercially-distributed resources for TE together with open resources created by users.
Specific results- Integrated environment – This is the core element of the project, providing users with a search portal that federates distributed TE resources.
- Effective Brokerage mechanisms for TE contents – Share.TEC will give individual users the means to locate the resources best fitting their needs, thanks to its synergic matching mechanism.
- Teacher Education Ontology - An extendible ontological structure capable of overcoming cultural linguistic barriers and exploiting the richness of European diversity.
- Common metadata model - Derived from the TEO ontology this model captures characteristics common to multiple European contexts and is therefore culturally non-specific.
- Multicultural Metadata Model - This provides the means for cross-cultural resource and experience sharing, thus helping to nurture a sense of community in TE at European level.
- Metadata Migration Facility – This tool is for linking to external repositories and resources. It will assist or automate a metadata migration process Resource
- Integration Companion Kit – This kit will provide guidelines and an assistive tool to support users in the process of classifying new resources according to the Share.TEC metadata model.
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Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ITD-CNR), Italy (Project Coordinator)
The Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD) is one of the research institutes of the Italian National Research Council. Research undertaken focuses on: integration of ICT in various educational settings; issues related to different disciplines and themes; learning issues of particular social significance; study of technological innovation as a learning resource. Member of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence, ITD has lead several EC projects (ULEARN, eLearning initiative, 2001-2003; UTeacher, eLearning initiative, 2004 -2006). |
Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland
Trinity was rated by the EU as the number one research institute in Ireland in terms of citations with its teaching hospital St James’ as number five. Trinity College produces over 1900 publications annually. While currently undergoing restructuring Trinity College has 66 departments across 6 faculties and has currently over 1000 active research accounts and 800 self-financing activities. Trinity College Dublin has a strong track record in the use of its intellectual property, mostly related to the science, engineering, and medical disciplines, but increasingly in the social sciences and humanities. |
Università Cá Foscari di Venezia (CENEC), Italy
Ca’ Foscari University conducts teaching and research in various disciples, including initial teacher education. Its Centre of Research Excellence supports scientific collaboration in teaching methodologies and teachers’ vocational training. National/international activities focus on training methodologies, professional profiles, tutorship, distance learning, planning methodologies, communities of practice. |
Stockholm University (SU), Sweden
SU provides research-based vocational training. 14,000 students are enrolled per year, 3500 in distance education. The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) provides a variety of learning and research support services including the building of, and online access to, various e-resource repositories covering educational econtents, digital learning objects, streamed video, e-publications, and special disciplinary collections. |
CLUEB (CLUEB), Italy
Clueb cooperative publisher associated to University of Bologna with a catalogue of 2,400 volumes, mostly monographs by university scholars. CLUEB is also active in digital publishing and distance learning. TE contents provider of Univirtual distance university, which in 2006-2007 provided 300 online courses to 4,800 students. CLUEB is currently shifting from traditional to prevalently digital online production. |
Open Universiteit Nederland (OUNL), The Netherlands
Open University of the Netherlands is a leading academic institution whose Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC) is steering major developments like the educational modelling language (EML), to become the IMS-LD specification (http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/ . CELSTEC brings expertise in lifelong learning networks, interoperability and intelligent tutoring systems. Its EU project participation include a range of programmes and projects, including TENcompetence http://www.tencompetence.org/ , MACE http://portal.mace-project.eu/ , iCoper http://www.icoper.org/ , Prolearn http://www.prolearn-project.org/ , Stellar, OpenScout. OUNL has an expertise centre for the professionalization of teachers in their own working environment, named “Ruud de Moor centrum” www.ou.nl/rmdc where collections of learning resources are made available and communities of teachers are supported. Basically, the centre is supporting the ‘life long learning’ of teacher practitioners. Furthermore, OUNL is active in a national and European context with the application of Open Educational Resources, including designing of suitable business models. |
Universidad de Valladolid (UVA), Spain
The GSIC/EMIC group (Group of Intelligent and Cooperative Systems / Education, Media, Informatics, and Culture) is an interdisciplinary research group at the Universidad de Valladolid (UVA). Main research areas are e-learning applications and technologies, practitioner support and CSCL. Developers of Collage, an LD authoring tool which won the Kaleidoscope NoE 2006-2007 European CSCL Technology award. |
Sofiyski universitet (NIS-SU), Bulgaria
Sofia University’s St. Kliment Ohridski School of Higher Education is the first of its kind in Bulgaria. The Centre of Information Society Technologies (CIST) is an interdisciplinary research and training institution dealing with the development and widespread use of ICT. The Centre aims to establish co-operation between academia and industry, SMEs, NGOs, public administration, local communities for promoting ICT use. |
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