EdReNe Seminar

1. EdReNe Seminar Naples, June 11-13 2007

2. SCEREN Organization • SCÉRÉN (Service Culture Publications and Resources for National Education) a nationwide network of public establishments divided into: • French National Educational Resource Center (CNDP) • 31 regional centers (CRDP), 85 departmental centers (CDDP) and local centers (CLDP) • Two departments related to CNDP at EdReNe : • Resources and Technologies Department • International Affairs Department EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

3. SCEREN official missions • SCEREN missions aim at teaching staff and generally to any member of the educational system (pupils, students, parents,…). • SCEREN sets up resources, publishes and promotes their use to: • carry out educational and pedagogical priorities of the French Government • enforce professional skills of the teaching and managing staff in educational field • promote new methods and practices regarding project management and ICT integration in schools EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

4. Activities • Administrative publications • printed brochures • digital materials on & off line • Audiovisual production • TV programs, video tapes, DVDs • TV series/ collections (distribution) • Educational production • over 7000 pedagogical products and services on various media (online and offline) EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

5. ICTE expertise • Assistance and training for teachers and educational personnel who wish to integrate information and communication technologies into their professional practices and the classroom • Audiovisual production, multimedia projects, computerized documentation center management, internet sites creation EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

6. Documentation engineering • SCEREN gives access to resources • identification, location, selection, lending and assistance in using educational documentation • It sets up tools to have access to documentation resources • a documentation software (BCDI), databases (Educasources), thesaurus on educational topics (Motbis), normalization schemes… • It advices, assists and expertises to: • schools (events and trainings in documentation centers) • Ministry of Education and to regional political and educational authorities EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

7. SCEREN educational repositories • Main digital resources repositories • SIALLE (French Ministry of Education partnership)  • Open Source Educational Software Online Service • http://www.sialle.education.fr • lesite.tv (France 5 TV partnership)  • Educational TV/audiovisual service on demand • http://www.lesite.tv • Educasources  • Digital Learning Resources Metadata Repository • http://www.educasources.education.fr • Correlyce  • Regional Digital Learning Resources Metadata Repository • http://www.regionpaca.fr/index.php?id=correlyce • MURENE (French Ministry of Education partnership)  • National Digital Learning Resources Federated Search Engine • http://murene.education.fr EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

8. Open source educational software online service Access on subscription available for teachers who want to download software Metadata not based on a specific standard (but descriptions quite similar to DC Education schema) Teachers are encouraged to deposit their comments about software on the website. Teachers’ comments are included into software descriptions • Search engine through several sort criteria : • software name, • educational level, • educational subject EdReNe Kick-off Seminar http://www.sialle.education.fr

9. French educational TV on demand online service Services = - videos catalogue composed of 2270 products including pedagogical documentation ; - weekly magazine on thematic subjects ; - Forum directed to teachers Programs produced and broadcasted in partnership with the French educational TV channel (France 5) Access on subscription available for schools and local authorities Subscription fees in connection with the number of pupils • Search engine : • subjects; • educational levels, • topics • Programs about 6 subjects : • - history, • - geography, • - natural sciences, • - environmental sciences, • - arts EdReNe Kick-off Seminar http://www.lesite.tv

10. Educasources • Digital Learning Resources Metadata Repository • Audience • Teachers, librarians and other members of the educational community (pupils, students, parents…) • Services • Free access to resources’ description (metadata) • Thematic selections in connection with educational programs • Search engine : simple and advanced search (levels, subjects, controlled keywords, thematic sub-repositories) • Metadata • CNDP’s application profile of LOM (MétaSCEREN) • Specific vocabularies published and maintained by CNDP (French educational thesaurus “Motbis” + controlled vocabularies / levels, subjects, audience, document types etc.) EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

11. References above 4000 digital resources http://www.educasources.education.fr EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

12. Refined search on results Associated keywords Associated thematic selections Publishers’ list EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

13. Correlyce • Regional version of a Digital Learning Resource Metadata Repository • Audience • Secondary schools of the French region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur • Services • Free access to a local metadata selection • Educasources “on demand” extraction • Metadata • Metadata creation via LOMFRPAD (metadata editor developed in partnership with Teluq the distance training Quebec University) http://www.regionpaca.fr/index.php?id=correlyce EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

14. MURENE“Federated Resources for National Education” • Federated Search Engine • Audience • Teachers, librarians and other members of the educational community (pupils, students, parents…) • Services : • Federated search engine (Exalead) • Free access to several individual subjects databases and to interdisciplinary databases • Metadata and interoperability • French application profile (LOMFR) • XML format EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

15. http://murene.education.fr EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

16. SCEREN & EdReNe • Our role • To assist the French Education Ministry in repositories project management • Objective : facilitate educational community ICT work through online services and assistance • Facilities : different experiences with repositories • To broaden the links with all educational institutions • To be an example for the private publishing sector in interoperability issues EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

17. SCEREN & EdReNe • Standardized approach • CNDP is involved in AFNOR’s works • General committee on ICT for education, training and learning (GC36) • Metadata expert group • Learning Object Metadata application profiles • National French profile : LOMFR • CNDP’s profile : Metasceren EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

18. SCEREN & EdReNe • Repositories main issues • Database convergence • Conception : Use of international standards for interoperability and common classification & indexation languages • Production : Collaborative work between producers and cataloguers • Exploitation : Federated search through multiple databases using metadata standards EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

19. SCEREN & EdReNe • Repositories main issues • Learning resources sharing • Centralized point of view • National repositories • Institutional point of view • Regional or local database independence • Syndication services (ex. thematic repositories, federated search functionnalities) • Learning resources visibility • well-structured databases • standardized cataloguing (LOM) EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

20. SCEREN & EdReNe • Our interests • Repositories and resources • Standards and interoperability • Rights management EdReNe Kick-off Seminar

21. Contact information Rosa Maria Gómez de Regil – (0)5 49 49 7914 Christine Champion Bibard – (0)5 49 49 78 59 SCÉRÉN [CNDP] Direction des Ressources et des Technologies Pôle national des contenus numériques @4 - avenue du Futuroscope - Téléport 1 BP 80158 - 86961 Futuroscope cedex FRANCE www.sceren.fr EdReNe Kick-off Seminar