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Intute and Organic.Edunet

Intute and Organic.Edunet. Jackie Wickham ALLCU, Oxford, July 2008. What is Intute. Use of the Internet for Studies. The Internet is clearly an essential tool Almost all students use if for researching essays and projects (Market research by FDS – Feb/March 2008).

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Intute and Organic.Edunet

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  1. Intute and Organic.Edunet Jackie Wickham ALLCU, Oxford, July 2008

  2. What is Intute

  3. Use of the Internet for Studies The Internet is clearly an essential tool Almost all students use if for researching essays and projects (Market research by FDS – Feb/March 2008) Students: Do you ever use the Internet to do research for essays or projects? Source: FDS online survey

  4. Solving the frustrations of the Internet • The Internet is a powerful tool for education and research, providing a range of educational resources to support traditional teaching and learning • Issues of trust, quality, information overload, poor searching and retrieving skills are significant concerns – particularly in the context of education and research • Intuteis a free, national Internet service aimed at higher and further education, providing the very best web resources for teaching, learning and research

  5. Intute is different • Intute uses a national network of information andsubject specialists to select and evaluate Internet resources for their quality and relevance…. • including the Wellcome Trust, Royal College of Nursing, University of Oxford.

  6. Network of specialists Four subject groups comprise Intute: • Arts and Humanities • Health and Life Sciences • Science, Engineering and Technology • Social Sciences • Hand selected, quality assured content – by the community for the community

  7. Use The Intute website

  8. Finding the Best of the Web Search/Browse the catalogue • Over 120,300records, each one hand selected and described by a subject specialist • Simple keyword or phrase searching • Refine your search by type of resource • Simple or Advanced searching options • Browse by subject heading or keyword

  9. Or integrate the content into your own site

  10. Examples of integrating.. Create your reading lists from Intute resources Put Intute search box on your library Web page, eg. for Intute: Social Science resources List latest language resources added to Intute, on your library Web page

  11. Intute Search Box Records from Intute catalogue Intute RSS Feeds

  12. Contact details Jackie Wickham Service Manager: Health and Life Sciences Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk

  13. Co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme

  14. contents • Overview and partners • content • scenarios • connect to

  15. overview

  16. Organic.Edunet • builds a multilingual federation of learning repositories • content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecology • for the awareness & education of European Youth

  17. about • Targeted Project • funded by the eContentplus Programme • started on October 2007 • duration 36 months • co-funded by EC • Overall budget: 4.800.000 euros

  18. overall coverage • 15 partners from 10 EU countries

  19. need • systematic collection and categorisation of learning resources related to OA and AE • integrating online environment • increase use and reuse • study & assessment of usage scenarios • in the context of formal educational programs in Europe

  20. objectives • Publication of content • Online environment – search, retrieval, use • Scenarios to support teaching and learning • Evaluation – pilot trials • Sustainable structures

  21. Public Underpinned by.. Database of scenarios Search and Browse learning resources Repository interface – manual or electronic upload Ontologies – to support search and retrieval Find scenarios - using organic resources in teaching and learning Federated repository Educational metadata (IEE LOM)

  22. targeted users • tomorrow’s consumers: highschool children • to be familiarized with concepts & benefits of OA & AE • tomorrow’s professionals: students of agricultural universities • to be educated about methods and practices of OA & AE

  23. content

  24. content stakeholders • EU-funded initiatives • public or private not-for-profit organisations • agricultural publishing houses • agricultural universities & institutes • rural schools & teachers …other?

  25. University/college resources • consortium-provided content resources • BIO@GRO, ECOLOGICA, COMPASS projects • selection from Intute repository resources • teaching resources from agricultural universities • other tutor-provided resources

  26. BIO@GRO resources

  27. Resource types • Lectures • Best practice guides • Games • Documents • Websites • Exercises

  28. school teachers’ resources • type • worksheetslesson plans, etc. • topic area • life sciences

  29. public resources - examples • FAO • Organic ePrints • SEAE – Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecologica

  30. scenarios

  31. Cooking with Ecological Products

  32. Excursion to an Organic Farm

  33. connect to • need more information? • want to get affiliated with Organic.Edunet? • visit • http://www.organic-edunet.eu • email • Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk

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