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Green Education Using Open Green Education Using Open Educational Resources (OER):Educational Resources (OER):
Setting up a Green OER Setting up a Green OER RepositoryRepository
V. Protonotarios, M. Ungur, H. Ebner, N. Manouselis
SPDECE-2012. Multidisciplinary symposium on the design and evaluation of
digital content for education
Alicante, Spain, 14/6/2012
About Open Educational About Open Educational ResourcesResources
What are the OER?OER = Open Educational Resources
Educational materials that are freely available and licensed in a way that gives users the legal permission to
reuse – use the work “as-is” without having to ask permission
revise - alter or transform the work to meet the user’s needs
remix – combine the work with other works for an enhanced effect
redistribute – share the work or derivative work with others.
Why use OER?Why use OER?
Shared content becomes a vehicle for collaboration and connection
Shared materials are continually improved upon through revisions
Materials can be adapted and localized to fit the specific audience needs
Saves time, cuts costs, and reduces duplication of effort
Open Access Repository Open Access Repository SoftwareSoftwareOER combined with open access
repository software…
How to find OER?How to find OER?
OER is supported by an ever-growing active movement◦ Usually available through specialized
learning portals
We need to focus on OER in the area of agriculture / green topics!
OER Commons OER Commons www.oercommons.org
Provides access to a number of OER on agriculture
Provides a number of search options and filtering of the results
Green OER Commons (www.oercommons.org/green) hosts resources specifically on green topics
Organic.Edunet Web Organic.Edunet Web portal portal www.organic-www.organic-edunet.euedunet.eu
Provides access to almost 11,000 resources on Organic Agriculture & Agroecology
Features four different search mechanisms and filtering of the results
Not all resources are OER, so one should be careful!
MERLOT MERLOT www.merlot.orgwww.merlot.org
Provides access to a number of resources on agriculture and green topics
Features classification of resources by type as well
Users may comment and review resources
OER Africa – Agriculture OER Africa – Agriculture OEROERwww.oerafrica.org/agricultuwww.oerafrica.org/agricultureoerreoerProvides access to a number of
resources on agricultural topicsThe number of resources is
constantly growingResources are mostly relevant to
African agricultural sector
FAO Organic Agriculture FAO Organic Agriculture portalportalhttp://www.fao.org/organicag/enhttp://www.fao.org/organicag/en
Provides access to publications, reports, projects, glossary etc. on organic agriculture topics
The number of resources is relatively high and growing
Resources are classified according to their top-level topic and are easy to find
Suitable for vocational training
Edutopia: GoGreen Edutopia: GoGreen databasedatabasehttp://www.edutopia.org/go-http://www.edutopia.org/go-greengreenlaunched by George Lucas
Educational FoundationIncludes lesson plans, projects,
web sitesEasily retrievable content
through search options
The issues facedThe issues faced
In most cases:
Limited use of metadata = issues in retrieving the resources◦Time consuming task
Lack of collection policy◦Providing info on the attributes of the
collection / resourcesLack of quality assurance /
criteria◦Ensuring the quality of the provided
resources
Our proposal: Green OER Our proposal: Green OER collectioncollectiona collection of OER focusing on green
topics◦a collection of metadata records which
describe quality educational material on green topics
covers green topics, such as sustainability, agriculture, environment, ecology, energy, biodiversity etc.
Describes items like complete lessons or lesson plans, guides and handbooks, journal articles and information sheets
WorkflowWorkflow
1. Content retrieval1. Content retrieval
Content experts browsing the web for appropriate content
Communication with content providers in special cases
Quality Assurance: Content has to meet the Organic.Edunet Core Criteria
2. Annotation2. AnnotationContent/Metadata experts using
Confolio toolAnnotation with Organic.Edunet
IEEE LOM AP, using all available info
Support for multilingual versions of metadata!
3. Publication3. Publication
1. Organic.Edunet Web portal: http://www.organic-edunet.eu
Currently features almost 11,000 resources!
3. Publication3. Publication2. Green OER-Commons micro-site:
www.oercommons.org/green
Currently features more than 2,000 resources!
To sum upTo sum upThere is an obvious need for
quality OER in green topicsMetadata descriptions are usually
incomplete, making retrieval of resources a hard task
Quality assurance is not apparentWe are working towards
addressing these two issues with the Green OER collection!
Thank you for your attention!