The Task Force on Applied Media in Teaching and Learning builds on the mature relationship between NRENs and HEIs in Europe. It is established under the auspices of the TERENA Technical Programme to collect and share ideas, knowledge and experiences on how to support media applied to pedagogical (e-learning) as well as to research/scientific purposes.
Fro more information check out the TF-Media website.
Motivations
There is a large interest around the world in establishing and maintaining national (as well as multi-national) learning object repositories as exemplified by the number of existing repositories, organizations building and sustaining them, contributors integrating learning objects in repositories, and users of these learning objects. The fundamental reasons are: the growing educational demands in all countries, the limited capacity of face to face education to fulfill the demand in a timely manner, the effort and cost involved to build multimedia learning materials, and the new possibilities offered by the Internet.
While it is a fact that millions of materials can be found on the Internet using search engines like Google, there is no guarantee that a query will lead to trustable material on which high quality education can be built. Not to mention copyright and licensing issues. Well managed learning object repositories that aggregate high quality content offer a solution to this problem. TERENA TF-Media group focuses on multimedia learning object repositories only.
Credit: http://www.globe-info.org/
Objectives
Connecting the World and Unlocking the Deep Web - Create a one-stop-shop (broker) for national learning resource organizations, each of them managing and/or federating one or more learning object repositories within the country. TERENA OER portal initiative addresses the gap between the national repositories and the emerging global repositories (e.g., GLOBE) by establishing an European level metadata repository (i.e. aggregation point) for the national repositories acting in the R&E community. The European level repository will be a metadata repository only, the content remains in its original content repository.
TERENA is willing to make a suite of online services and tools available to its members for the exchange of learning resources' metadata, and facilitates the access to the worldwide Open Community (i.e. GLOBE) guided by the following principles:
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Benefits
The expected benefits for the end-users (students and teachers) are as follows:
The pilot project milestones
Detailed milestones, timing, etc. to be defined.
List of interested participants
Q&A
Q: What can be the role of an NREN?
A: To bring the learning resources' information (metadata only, not the object itself) at the higher (i.e. European) level.
Q: Why should the national repository join TERENA OER (i.e. what is the additional value of TEREAN)?
A: To step from the national level to the pan-European and later global (i.e. via GLOBE) level of aggregation. Create the critical mass.
Q: How can I convince lecturers to share their content?
A: Tell them not to share the whole lecture but just some chunks of it as a Learning Object. In return, they will be able to re-use LOs from other lecturers to enrich their presentation.Quality assured, licensed content.
Q: What is the actual Business Case for NRENs?
A: Universities use public money to create lecture content. Sharing, enriching and re-using the content made available by lecturers eventually spares time, efforts, and public money.
Q: What is the benefit of TERENA OER over Goole Search?
A: Deep search can be done on rich metadata that can find content that is most likely hided from Google Search or other web search engines.
Meeting minutes
We've just had a very productive discussion about the practical steps of the TF-Media Open Educational Resource portal pilot.
Please find the recording at http://uvigo.adobeconnect.com/p1t9d4507u8/
We've kicked off the pilot with some initial agreements however, there are still many open questions and details that need to be clarified in the near future. Stay tuned!
NOTES:
25 June 2012 @ 14.00-15.45 CET
List of participants: Andy (SWITCH), Gytis (KUT), Nikos, Giannis (GRNET); Vicente (UVigo); Eli (IUCC); Jack (TAU); Peter (TERENA)
1) Vicente (UVigo) agreed to set up a test installation of DSpace and maybe PuMuKit on top.
2) Giannis (GRNET) agreed to set up a test installation of ARIADNE tools.
3) Eli (IUCC) agreed to set up a test installation of MAOR duplicate.
DRAFT
OPTION 2) In order to collect the metadata from the repositories participating in the pilot project the ARIADNE infrastructure and services (www.ariadne-eu.org/content/services) could be used.
Credit: Giannis (GRNET)
We've just had the second very productive discussion about the practical steps of the TF-Media Open Educational Resource portal pilot. No recordings have been made.
NOTES
21 September 2012 @ 11.00-12.30 CET.
List of participants: Zenon, Nikos, Giannis (GRNET); Carlos (UPV); Vicente (UVigo); Eli (IUCC); Jack (TAU); Peter (TERENA)
1.) MAOR-based pilot portal installation done by IUCC: http://maor.iucc.ac.il/t_materials.php?keywords=*
2.) ARIADNE-based pilot portal installation done by GRNET: http://83.212.100.142:8080/terena-finder/?query=*