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A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources across Europe

A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources across Europe. Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR, Italy TenCompetence workshop Sofia, Oct. 29-30th, 2008. Teacher Education (TE) includes various….

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A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources across Europe

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  1. A Teacher Education Ontology for Sharing Digital Resources across Europe Jeffrey Earp, ITD-CNR, Italy TenCompetence workshopSofia, Oct. 29-30th, 2008

  2. Teacher Education (TE) includes various… • Actors: teacher & trainer educators, practising & trainee teachers, publishers, content & service providers… • Phases: Initital Teacher Education (ITE) & Continuous Professional Development (CPD) • Learning processes: formal & non-formal, guided & self-directed

  3. Pressing TE needs across Europe • Ready access to reusable, user-validated digital resources • Richer offering of TE-specific digital content (OER & commercial) • Sense of community stretching beyond immediate locus; community engagement • Broad European perspective – sharing experiences, practices & approaches

  4. commercial & OER potential cultural differences TEgateway TEnetworks TE resources & expertise

  5. Proposedresponse • Gateway to federated TE-specific resources • Metadata aggregation & harvesting (no LMS) • TE metadata model (pan-European & specific levels) • Personalized services: adaptive interface & query • A starting core of user-validated TE content • Promotion of European TE content marketplace • TE community support tools: feedback, ranking, experiential annotation, social networking, enriching metadata aggregation

  6. Existing services,programs & models Learning Resource Exchange VICE

  7. TE ONTOLOGY- rationale • Fostering shared understanding and communication among humans • a mappable set of TE-relevant concepts • non-ambiguous vocabulary • Enabling adaptive user interface and reasoning-based query services • Guiding design and system specification of tools and services

  8. TE ONTOLOGY- rationale • Facilitating resource retrieval • Inferential search engine • Flexible representation of user profiles • Ranking solutions • Providing linguistic & cultural interoperability • Bridging different national systems

  9. TE ONTOLOGY - main branches

  10. TE ONTOLOGY - Multilayer structure Common level (culturally-independent) Specific levels (culturally-dependent)

  11. TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual approach • Metadata Models: common + language- context specific • Own working language • Familiar references to other educational contexts/systems • suitable TE terminology & metadata

  12. TE ONTOLOGY - Multilingual approach • Cultural connotation of TE models • Mapping different ‘local’ conditions • Use peer recommendations • Enrich resource with notation of user experience

  13. Integrated model TE ONTOLOGY Top down Bottom up Folksonomies, experiential annotations

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