The document discusses sharing learning resources across contexts. It outlines a workshop on discovering "travel well" content. "Travel well" resources are those that can be reused by teachers in different countries. The workshop will cover what makes resources travel well and how they can be easily found and shared. Social tagging is presented as a way to help discover resources across language boundaries by creating links between similar content and users in different countries. The future vision is that novel discovery methods relying on social tagging could lead to better recommender systems and cross-language search of learning resources.
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Using social tags to discover cross-language learning resources
1. Using and discovering resources
across contexts
Strand 2: Eminent
November 27, 2009 Lithuania
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2. Outline of this workshop
EUN work on «Travel well» content
Riina Vuorikari, EUN
«Travel well» and quality aspects
Silvia Panzavolta, ANSAS (ex-Indire)
KlasCement engages users to share (universal)
learning objects
Hans De Four, KlasCement
Acer/EUN netbook pilot project
Riina Vuorikari, EUN & Bertnard Mellah, Acer
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3. EUN + «Travel well» learning resources
• Beginning: Where did it all got started?
• Then: Some content can really be reused by
teachers from different countries
– ... but what makes them travel well, and
– how can they be found and shared easily?
• Future: Can social help?
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4. Where did it all get started?
• Sharing and reuse of digital learning resources are the
drivers of a “learning object economy”
-> Sharing learning resources metadata to improve reuse
• Economy of scale: “if we all share the content,
production costs per unit go down”
• Did anyone ask: “Do teachers think learning resources
from a country other than their own are useful for
education?
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5. Then....
• We had gained understanding that some content is more
useful than other..
• e.g. science, cross-curriculum
topics, language learning
• BUT what makes them
“Travel well”?
– well searchable multilingual
metadata, size, type, topic??
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10. This is what the end user sees
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11. The other part of the problem (?)
Discovering learning resources
across language boundaries is challenging!
Main problem: the resource & its metadata description are made
in a different context from where the resource is discovered
and/or actually used
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12. Part of the problematics..
Learning resources
from
different countries
and
in different languages
do not cross-reference via hyperlinks!
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13. Can tags and social, maybe, help?
Add a rating
Add a tag
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19. Tags create link-structures between
content in different languages
Slovakian resource
Tag
«interactive»
Finnish resource
Spanish resource
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20. Tags create links between users in
different countries (and languages)
Resource that
Austria
«Travels well»
Hungary
Finland
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21. Future vision: let’s rely on new way of
finding «Travel well» resources..
Thanks to tags and “social traces”,
novel ways of cross-language discovery of
learning resources can be thought
....
this paves the way for recommender systems,
social navigation
and
better ranking systems
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