Open educational resources projects at Tallinn University

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Open educational resources projects at Tallinn University Hans Põldoja

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Open educational resources projects at Tallinn University

Hans Põldoja

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What are open educational resources?

• Open access

• Open license

• Open format

• Open source

(Schaffert & Geser 2008)

OER authoring tools and repositories

• LeMill — web community for collaborative authoring of open educational resources

• TATS — question and test authoring system

• Krihvel — learning environment and learning resource authoring tool for elementary schools

• Waramu — federated learning object repository

• Koolielu — national educational portal based on elgg

http://lemill.net

What is LeMill?

• Web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources

• Open source server software developed in EU 6FP project CALIBRATE

• Learning Mill

Designed for teachers

• Scenarios

• Design sessions

• User stories

• Prototypes

Design session results

• Teachers are looking for something else than raw text material

• Learning resources can be divided to content, activities and tools

Learning resources

Web page

Presentation

PILOTExercise

School project

Lesson plan

More than content

• Methods

• Tools

• Collections

• Teaching and learning stories

LeMill as a social software

• Linking people by location, skills and interests

• Groups for collaborative authoring

• Group forums

Members

0

1500

3000

4500

6000

Jul 2006 Jan 2007 Jul 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Jan 2009

27 65242

465666

867

1698

2337

27962959

4708

5265

4 5 18 89 105 111273 343 359 364 374 414

Estonia Total

Members by specified country

20%

5%

5%

5%

11%18%

36%

Estonia Georgia Hungary Finland Czech Republic Lithuania Other

Other OER software developed at TLU

TATS

Krihvel

Krihvel

Waramu

Open courses and Wikiversity

Learning content

Student blogs

Course wiki and bloglink and tag

link and tag link

link

RSS

link

References

• Schaffert, S., Geser, G. (2008, February 29). Open Educational Resources and Practices. eLearning Papers, 7. Retrieved April 3, 2009, from http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media14907.pdf