User generated content in the LRE - illustrated by a session on LeMill
1. User generated content in the
LRE — illustrated by a session
on LeMill
Hans Põldoja
Tallinn University
2. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative
Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California,
94105, USA.
5. 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
7. Design session results
• Teachers are
looking for
something else
than raw text
material
• Learning
resources can be
divided to
content, activities
and tools
16. 700
Web pages
677
665
655
600
593
500 Other
Lithuanian
Swedish 4%
3%
3%
Hungarian
5%
Estonian
400
No language specified 34%
9%
373
300
Georgian
290
10%
260
200 214
Czech English 191
15% 16%
162
100 117
95
Estonian English Czech
Georgian No language specified Hungarian
Swedish Lithuanian Other
49
0 16 16
8 13
1 2 2 6
26. Simple licensing scheme
• All resources created in LeMill are published under
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
license
• Media pieces can be also under:
- Creative Commons Attribution license
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Public Domain
• References to external content under any license
27. Reusing open content
6 900 000
BY
2 500 000 5000
4 900 000
media files content modules
BY-SA
photos
28. More than content
• Methods
• Tools
• Collections
• Teaching and
learning stories
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35. LeMill as a social software
• Linking people by
location, skills and
interests
• Groups for
collaborative
authoring
• Group forums
39. Members by country
Other countries
11%
United States
Poland
1%
2%
Austria
Estonia
3% Hungary
Finland
Georgia
Estonia
5% Czech Republic
42%
Lithuania
Lithuania Finland
6% Austria
Poland
Czech Republic
United States
7% Other countries
Georgia
8%
Hungary
14%
43. LeMill competition in Estonia
• Organized by Tiger Leap Foundation in
November–December 2007
• 32 teachers submitted their teaching and learning
stories
• Two first prizes: “Pronaunciation of r-letter” and
“Media”
50. Future plans
• lemill.net will continue to be a free service after
the end of CALIBRATE
• The development will continue and feedback is
welcome
• New features: Powerpoint import, personalized
homepage