Exemplar 3: Services and Content
Creating education materials and enhancing e-services
We are exploiting synergies between the participation of teachers, learners and content connected through open educational environments. We are building new services around pedagogies and content aggregation, annotation, mash-ability, verification, analysis, search, media sharing and recommendation.
Going beyond digital products
Government decided to open up possibilities of education in an open, innovative and sustainable learning environment facilitated by innovative use of ICTs.
This will enable individuals to gain knowledge and develop skills, key competences, as well as competences of the 21st century that are essential for a successful integration in society.
The goals are to develop high quality didactical aids or tools, (e.g. multimedia and interactive e-material, mobile and web based applications, e-portfolio), and accordingly, adapt the existing educational approaches.
Set up an open platform of information technology, e-content, e-services, pedagogical concepts and approaches, added-value models, as well as motivation mechanisms.
And finally, raise the level of digital competence and enhance the use of ICT within the overall educational system.
Key Achievements
- 4 million views of OER via VideoLectures.Net worldwide
- 43 e-textbooks under Creative Commons license
- More than 130 projects for development of multimedia and interactive e-materials
- Science Atlas – service for researchers’ competence and collaboration diagrams
- More than 22.000 educators participated in e-communities to exchange and discus new pedagogies
Challenges
- To develop new services as a consequence of the convergence of OER, broadband, broadcast and social media
- To support and promote innovative open and OER based pedagogical approaches for mobile and www platforms
- To implement existing OER materials and e-services to support personalized and collaborative learning
- To develop new business models for OER
Focus
- Quality – Developing open multimedia and interactive e-material for students and teachers for different platforms.
- Agility – Enabling access through various educational portals and creation of e-services for formal and non-formal education.
- Confidence – Stakeholders can be confident the solutions have both business, research and user needs integrated.
- Equity – Provide suitable e-services from basic to advanced for each particular institution and individual.
- Consistency – working within an agreed “open” technical framework ensures consistency across projects and people.
- Reduced Risk – Building and adding on already successful and widely used services is a rewarding approach.
Featured Exemplars:
- Overview and introduction
- Policy Actions
- Capacity Building
- Services and Content
- Research and Development
- Supportive Environments
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