Presentation at Scientix conference, Brussels, May 7, 2011

1. Authoring, Sharing and Annotating Digital Learning Resources on Inquiry-Based Science Education Mart Laanpere, Tallinn University, Estonia

2. Science -Teacher Education Advanced Methods May 2009 – April 2012 15 countries 26 institutions 100 + people 109 things to do www.ntnu.no/s-team

3. Aims of S-TEAM Disseminate inquiry based science teaching methods on a large scale across Europe Create new models of teacher professional development Provide science teachers with opportunities to talk about/improve their practice

4. What is new? Pupils’ scientific thinking needs to be recognised –tools in development Pupil questions should drive their science investigations/inquiries Teachers need [more] time to do inquiry Teachers need [more] time to talk about teaching practice Pedagogy should be integrated with assessment and curriculum

5. Some S-TEAM ingredients Argumentation Dialogic teaching Scientific literacy Motivation Video resources for teacher development Crossover between different specialisms

6. Digital resources created by S-team Videos: 6 DVDs, 2 sets of online video clips Books: 1 printed, 1 online, 1 in both formats Workbooks: 3 (PDF or DOC) Training packages: 10 (PPT, DOC, SCORM) Simulations: 3 (PPT, FLV) Other: 13 questionnaires, lesson plans, presentations (DOC, PPT, )

7. S-team production workflow Authoring: selecting the right tool and output format, choosing the license Storing: S-team Wiki, local servers, Scientix Promoting: metadata to Scientix portal and to national portals, RSS, recommenders, SIR, MOL Adapting: localisation, adding to collections, new versions (NB! CC-BY-SA) Re-using: online learning environments

8. Open issues Privacy and copyright issues restrict the use of Creative Commons licenses Scientix metadata form is “too heavy” for authors – support is needed MOL-AD support is needed from Scientix How to reach the teacher educators? Web 2.0 (RSS, Widgets, recommenders) does not work LeMill.net would solve many problems, but authors prefer DOC, PPT

9. Thanks for listening! www.ntnu.no/s-team Mart.Laanpere@tlu.ee