- The eQnet project Dr. Riina Vuorikari – Dr. Silvia Panzavolta Copenhagen, Novembre 9

The eQnet consortium EUN plus 9 Ministries of Education – BMUKK (AT), – DGIDC (PT), – DZS (CZ), – ANSAS (ex INDIRE) (IT), – ITC (LT), – KC (BE/NL), – MS SR (SK), – Skolverket (SE), – UDIR (NO)

About: eQNet aims 1. Collection of travel well resources (WP3) 350 resources/ partner (Y1-90, Y2-120, Y3-140) 2. Validated Travel well criteria (WP2) Select TW resources from existing collections – Help local and national repositories to select the “right” resources for the LRE – LRE to make the Travel well resources better found

About: eQnet timeline Y1 Planning (  Sept ‘10) TW collection 900 resources TW criteria v.1 State of the art report Internal quality assurance plan Y3 Action (  Sept ‘12) TW collection 1400 resources TW criteria v.3 State of the art report Eminent 2011 Internal quality assurance report Y2 Action (  Sept ‘11) TW collection 1200 resources TW criteria v.2 State of the art report Eminent 2010 Interim report

eQnet Methodology Conceptual work (WP) Y-1: conceptual model v.1 (D2.11) Y-2: Testing the “travel well” model v.1 Y-3: Empirical validation Quality assurance (WP6) Internal quality assurance procedure Validation by teachers (WP3) Teachers’ own intuition “useful for teachers in other countries” Y-2: Testing the “travel well” model Y-3: Empirical validation

eQnet teachers network (9 countries+EUN)

- eQnet kick-off in October 2009 – Website at: – Setting up teachers’ network Project meeting in February 2010 – Organisation of work for teachers’ network on Klascement.eu and the LRE portal – Start of the travel well selection: 90 resources each partner in Y-1 Conceptual model for Travel well criteria v.1 (D2.11) Dissemination: – LRE Group in February 2010 – Scientix and Spice meeting in May 2010 Happened so far:

Collections of « travel well » resources

Multiple ways to find resources

Collections of « travel well » resources

History of the “travel-well” concept MELT project: launch of the LRE portal, a repository containing about 40,000 Los and 92,000 assets. Interoperability issue: in order to build such a repository, we first looked at: – Technical interoperability (metadata, query standards, etc) – Semantic interoperability (mapping among the different vocabularies)

The LRE tag clouds

What about the content interoperability? After the repository was set up, we started to analyze the content ant to test it. Each content provider shared quality content but… – It this content traveling well? – Is it usable in contexts different from the one it was produced for? – What are the traveling-well indicators?

The eQnet project as to “travel-well” criteria The eQnet project aims at studying those issues together with the teachers using LRE resources in real contexts. So far, we have identified some travell-well parameters: – Language independence/Low language dependence (easily translatable) OR Multilinguality; – Strong visual structure (animations, images and short videos are traveling best) – No large semantic density (easy to include in any curriculum)

Other parameters More relating to quality in general Cultural appropriateness: the resource respects the cultural and social norms of teacher and/or pupil. Usability: users can find their way through the resource almost intuitively. This may be possible even if the user is unfamiliar with the language of the resource. Technical features: easy to access (no login or plug-ins) Openness: open license, free to use, open code (like in flash resources)

A question of pragmatism The theoretical identifiers characterizing travel well resources must be tested by users. The real use is crucial and it is strictly linked to the concept of traveling well (the concept of travel will means that something has worked out already… “It travels well or traveled well”). The quality issue is somehow related to the concept but not the same.

Recent papers dealing with learning resource quality (2005-) EUN, A European Schoolnet Framework for Quality of Learning Resources (2005), teria/equality4.htm teria/equality4.htm EUN, Quality criteria (2005), Becta, Quality principles for digital learning resources (2007), Leacock, T. L., & Nesbit, J. C. (2007). A Framework for Evaluating the Quality of Multimedia Learning Resources,

Quality indicators

Need for double check of travel-well criteria Now we have a collection of travel-well resources. Selection was made by a group of Eqnet teachers. It would be interesting to test those resources. We need volunteers!

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Social tags make digital trails visible! by Stiphy

Austria Hungary Finland Resource that «Travels well» Tags create links between users in different countries (and languages)

Spanish resource Tag «interactive» Finnish resource Slovakian resource Tags create links between content in different languages

Thank you for your attention! Silvia Panzavolta ANSAS (ex INDIRE) Credits: Image taken from: Dia,