Educasources repository & EdReNe’s priorities

1. Educasources repository & EdReNe’s priorities Rosa Maria Gómez de Regil CNDP, France EdReNe Workshop 5.2 Husseren les Châteaux, October 20-22 2008

2. CNDP • French National Educational Resources Center • French Ministry of Education center • Member of the French education service network • 31 regional centers (CRDP), 85 departmental centers (CDDP) and local centers (CLDP) • Publisher and producer of educational resources • Promotion of the use of ICT in schools • Supplier of tools, advice and training for teachers EdReNe Workshop 5.2

3. Educasources (1/2) • Digital Educational Resources Metadata Repository • Description • 2006 • about 7000 metadata items of text documents • institutional learning and administrative resources in all disciplines • Functionalities • Search engine simple and advanced search (levels, subjects, controlled keywords, thematic sub-repositories) • Audience • Teachers, librarians at schools and other members of the educational community (pupils, students, parents…) EdReNe Workshop 5.2

4. Educasources (2/2) • Digital Educational Resources Metadata Repository • Online services for general public • Free access to resources’ description (metadata) • Thematic selections in connection with educational programs • Metadata • Produced by information professionals and teachers • CNDP’s application profile of LOM (MétaSCEREN) • Controlled vocabularies published and maintained by CNDP • French educational thesaurus “Motbis” • Levels, subjects, audience, document types vocabularies EdReNe Workshop 5.2

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8. How to engage users? Educasources & EdReNe’s educational repositories priorities EdReNe Workshop 5.2

9. Personalization • profiles • not available in the actual online service • used to deposit metadata • but considered in a new service called Canalscéren • personalize RSS feeds • save search engine requests • modify themes • automatic content recommendations • through RSS feeds in Canalscérén EdReNe Workshop 5.2

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12. Building content • combine content from different producers • Educasources references resources from the Web • some of them are licensed • contents are not packaged in common standards EdReNe Workshop 5.2

13. Repository use • statistics • simple statistics • need to improve the statistics system to know more about our users • identifying popular functions • at working groups • Canalscérén will provide more Web 2.0 functions • interpreting search strings and results • we will analyze the search engine log files EdReNe Workshop 5.2

14. User generated metadata • tagging • CNDP’s profession : to catalog resources • we are not planning to let general users to tag the resources • teachers can participate to Educasources if they follow a training session EdReNe Workshop 5.2

15. Ease of use • online help • FAQ section • search engine help • tools for editing • Metadata editor : Numéribase • different web forms depending on users • teacher • author • information professionals EdReNe Workshop 5.2

16. Pushing information to users • démonstration of the repository • educational forums • online vidéo • training sessions • brochures • mailing lists • RSS feed available EdReNe Workshop 5.2

17. Contact Rosa Maria Gómez de Regil Chargée de mission R&D 00 33 (0)5 49 49 79 14 rosa-maria.gomez@cndp.fr SCÉRÉN [CNDP] Direction des Ressources et des Technologies @4 - avenue du Futuroscope - Téléport 1 BP 80158 - 86961 Futuroscope cedex www.sceren.fr EdReNe Workshop 5.2