WILDWiring the Learning Infrastructure: Connecting Digital Learning Resources to the Curriculum

– A Semantic Web Service for Curriculum Mapping

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Background

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The Swedish Curriculum(The National Steering Documents)

National Steering Documents

Schools curriculum*

Local Steering Documents

School-levelSteering Documents

Lesson Plans

Assessment Criteria

Learning Objectives

Local Course Plans (syllabus)

Course Plans (syllabus)

School Curriculum

Legal Documents

*Called “Steering documents” In Sweden

School Curriculum

Course Plans (syllabus)

Legal Documents

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The WILD-project

•Continues the Annofolio-project in 2004-2005 (we developed a first prototype)

•New national Steering Documents for Schools take effect in 2011

•The WILD-project is an R&D project that will be carried out in 2010–2013

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Main objective(s) of the WILD-project- Providing the curriculum as a “Cloud” service

•Enabling the curriculum for a digital world by:

– making it machine-readable and machine-processable by the use of Semantic Web technologies

– Providing meaning for humans (i.e. students and teachers) as well as for machines (i.e. software and services).

•Teachers should be able to actually use the steering documents when teaching by connecting pedagogical activities and resources to the steering documents.

•Provide tools to visualize the curriculum (for students, parents etc.)

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Deliverables

• Digitized Steering/Curriculum Documents. Preferably in a standardized data format. We are exploring the Curriculum Exchange Format, CEF as the basis (but this is still a fairly open issue...)

– Semantic Web technology: An RDF-binding to CEF for machine Processable Semantics*.

• A methodology* for analyzing and adding metadata and annotations to the Curriculum.

• Tools* for markup and annotation (for contributing to the metadata ecology).

• A basic structural and descriptive markup* of the curriculum documents. For others to use and improve.

• A set of API:s for interacting with the curriculum service. I.e. an interface for other services to use.

• A couple of example services that builds upon those API:s and the curriculum service.

*Currently ongoing work

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We want others to

create added value by

integrating and usingour Curriculum service

in new digital (mashed-up?)

services for schools!

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WILD will evolve over the next years

In conclusion, the idea and aim of WILD is to:

• provide a digital curriculum service that is open for use by third party

• make the curriculum a part of schools “information ecology”

• make the curriculum/steering Documents ”usable” by wiring other digital services to the curriculum.

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QUESTIONS?

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Contact information

Fredrik PaulssonUmeå University

fredrik.paulsson@educ.umu.sehttp://www.frepa.org

Screencast: http://www.iml.umu.se/~frepa/screencasts/wild/