Extract from the mandate awarded by the Ministry of Education and Research

2. Extract from the mandate awarded by the Ministry of Education and Research • “Utdanning.no is the national common gateway that provides easy access to everything you need to know about education at one address.” • “The gateway shall contribute organizationally, professionally and pedagogically to an educational system that develops and exploits information and communication technology (ICT).”

3. Mission • Utdanning.no shall be a junction and meeting place for education in Norway, so that the users, on the basis of a collocated, organized and complete presentation can easily: • Choose an education • Learn on an ICT-based platform • Find information

4. Utdanning.no • Present the work and data of others • Editorial adaptation: The intention is to make information and the web sites of others easily available, interesting and to ensure that these can be found again. • Automatic information gathering

5. Universities and colleges • Fully independent units • Secondary schools • Primary schools • Private schools at all levels

6. AIM 2009 What learningresources are available? Engage all Solution adapted to teacher’s needs Internat. search How can I use DLR in tutoring? Quality stamp STATUS 2006 Search to other net pages/ LMS “Rich” overviews Catalogue Search/overview services Help the individual with learning Establishcooperation Storage available Interactivequery services How can I get help? How can I be active and contribute? Establish“communities”

7. Utdanning.no: Everything in one place

8. Offering services to everyone Search for digital educational resources

9. SANU: Coordinating Group for Websites in the Educational Sector

10. Culture for sharingGateway strategy under the programme for digital expertise • Long-term goals: • Avoid overlapping content/duplication of effort • Extensive re-use and sharing • User-orientation, improved services for the end-user • Short-term goals: • Establish cooperation in order to coordinate content and services • The content provider as a source has primary responsibility for ensuring that content is correct • Websites to be adapted so as to allow re-use and sharing of content and services

11. Status DLM – Communal effort • Organisational interoperability (interaction) • SANU • Established routines for the exchange of metadata • Technological interoperability is well established with Metadata (NORLOM) transfer protocols • Semantic interoperability • NORLOM (Metadata standard) • GREP: National Curriculum as a common, controlled vocabulary. Used in the SANU project.

12. The ongoing process Utdanning.no • Add more material to the collection • Increase the number of partners in SANU (Universities/colleges) • Cooperation with private content providers • Services for external users • External search services for LMS, other websites etc. • Continuation of the collection of educational resources • Offer physical storage of resources. (Not only metadata) • More active teachers/pupils. (Community / Web 2.0) • Labelling/retrieval based on GREP/NORLOM • (National Curriculum) • Redesigning the website

13. Status • The largest catalogue in Norway of distributed educational resources. (Catalogue of links). • Little web 2.0 / community • Few resources are stored physically in the collection. • Cooperation with those involved in SANU regarding the common exchange of metadata. • Communal effort to establish the catalogue.

16. Access project • Offer a technical solution for Norwegian county municipalities (responsible for upper secondary schools). • Editorial responsibility lies with the county municipalities. • The solution must be able to be extended to other levels/subjects etc. • All resources included in the solution will also be part of Utdanning.no’s overriding strategy in respect of SANU and the services offered.

17. Technology • Basis in the Fedora Repository • Drupal CMS on top • Formats: • NORLOM, DC, METS, RSS, ATOM • Transfer: • Web services, OAI-PMH, • Search API: • WS REST, OAI, Google’s GData api • Information available at: http://bak.utdanning.no

18. Thank you! • www.utdanning.no

19. SANU • Samordningsgruppen for Nettsteder i Utdanningssektoren – Coordination Group for Websites in the Educational Sector • Headed by utdanning.no • User perspective: Information and services directed at a target group must be able to be retrieved from several gateways, websites or information databases, whenever they provide the user with a better and more complete service. • Improved efficiency perspective: Avoid duplicated efforts and duplicated investments. Establish technological solutions that promote a culture where content is shared in order to exploit resources in the educational sector more expediently and to secure the efficient and effective flow of information to users. • The intention is not to establish a NAV, but to secure the “free flow” of information between websites in the best interests of the user • Requires a sharing culture, willingness to share and a common exchange format

20. Private participants • Able to import meta-databases on NORLOM. • Must be licensed. • Will use the FEIDE log-on procedure.

21. FEIDE • Common log-on procedure for the educational sector • A good way to identify users. • The challenge lies in authorization for access.

22. Who cooperates with whom? • Subject gateways / collections / catalogues of links • Utdanning.no – Skolenettet • Specialist gateways / specialist centres • Matematikk.org, Naturfag.no, viten.no, miljølare.no, norsknettskole.no, NTNU-Delta, •  More wanted

23. Scenario LMS Collections Exchange / co-searching across collections Gathering Specialist gateways Educational research projects

24. Utdanning.no – The way ahead • More partners • Culture for sharing • Offer services to more people • Search available in LMS • More storage of the actual educational resources and not just metadata/links. • Retrieval based on the National Curriculum (GREP) • More active teachers / pupils. (Community/web 2.0) • FEIDE