Recent studies on accessing educational content – WS 11 2021

30 June 2021 | 10:30-11:30 CEST | Studio Trieste | |
Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 2

Proposals: #13 #35 #60 #76

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Session teaser

COVID19 has highlighted and reinforced inequalities in our society whilst introducing new challenges. Schools and universities are particularly affected by these changes, both in lacking equipment and teacher skills to bring all content online. The lack of professional training to develop digital teaching skills makes it harder for teachers to deliver lessons from a distance and for pupils and students to learn. E-learning systems are not standardised and neither is educational material that is shared on these systems. The structure of learning courses is often modelled after a formal education curriculum, which provides no accommodation for the new interactive opportunities. The lack of standards and regulation for interoperability severely limits the usability of existing digital learning platforms for individual knowledge management by learners. Much of the material is already in corporate walled gardens coupled with expensive licensing and tracking of users. Compounding to these challenges is the lack of high-speed or low latency Internet connectivity which introduces a limit to the audio-visual or augmented reality opportunities that remote learning could enable. But work is taking place to find solutions!

Session description

Right now we are facing a lot of practical and societal challenges in e-learning. Many of these challenges are reflected in the state of the tech industry and infrastructure on which e-learning relies upon. When is this technology helpful? When it's a hindrance? How can we do better?

The session will include in-depth discussion on the state of e-learning industry as a whole, questions of knowledge management and accessibility, digital autonomy, digital literacy, as well as tools and best practices both educators and learners can employ for more efficient and engaging learning experience. We will discuss standards, implementations and interoperability of a variety of technologies, as well as new and long-standing challenges.

Format

1. Opening word from the organizational team to introduce the audience to topics and invite dialogue (~5min), introducing key speakers;
2. Interactive dialogue session with the audience (10-25min);
3. A series of lightning talks from key speakers (5 minutes each, 30-35 minutes);
4. Dialogue and Q&A with speakers (30-45min).

Further reading

• Platform for open multi-lingual educational courses;
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for teachers and educators
• How to empower young people to understand and disrupt online hate (MOOC)
• MOOC for teachers and educators by The European Schoolnet Academy
• LMS LTI (learning tools interoperability standard)
• IMS Learning Resource Metadata Best Practices Guide
• https://drawabox.com/ - an example of a free course on art fundamentals, curated and governed entirely by the community
• Ethical licensing - with software and content being one of the fundamental building blocks of e-learning, it’s very important to look into software licensing strategies that address ethical concerns and provide ways of enforcement for ethical norms;
• Cryptographic Autonomy License - one of the best examples about software license enforcing respect of digital autonomy and personal data rights on a software infrastructure level, while still using existing legal language.
• Pandemic sees growth in study signup - the OUBS, strategically committed to distance learning, analyses the effect of the pandemic.

People

Focal Point

• Alex Culliere

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Subject Matter Expert (SME)

• Olivier Crepin-Leblond

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• Alex Culliere
• Roberto Gaetano, EURALO
• Kathrin Morasch, Better Internet for Kids | Youth IGF Germany
• Sabrina Vorbau
• Oliana Sula
• Vladislav Ivanets

Key Participants Angela Lucia Capezzuto, graduated from the University of Sydney with a First Class Honours in Science with majors in Biochemistry and Microbiology, obtained a Science Degree equivalent from the University of Naples. Currently works in 2 state lyceums in the province of Caserta as a teacher of English Conversation and continuously uses eTwinning projects to develop a European framework of key competencies in students. Became an eTwinning Ambassador in 2016 and was a workshop leader as speaker in the eTwinning School workshop for Ministers of Education with Irene Pateraki in the eTwinning Annual Conference in Mandelieue France in 2019. Has won for 2 years in a row (2020 and 2021) in the Europeana Education competition for the design of the learning scenarios: "A Plastic-Free World?" (2020) and "A Timeline of Women's Rights in Europe".

Rute Baptista is a Pedagogue and currently acts as the Professional Development Manager, in Brussels, in eTwinning project, from European Commission. She works closely with hundreds of thousands of teachers from 44 countries, supporting, coordinating, and managing online and face-to-face professional development opportunities. Rute also works as a pedagogical consultant and project manager to a consortium of Ministries of Education, European Schoolnet, based in Brussels. For 8 years and until 2012 Rute Baptista has worked in the Portuguese Ministry of Education dealing with European Projects and ICT in Education having collaborated in several projects and initiatives on this topic, at the national level. Rute is a Teacher Trainer and trains trainers in private companies in Portugal. She holds a degree in Pedagogy and is specialized in curricula development and project coordination.

Alex Culliere is a software engineer from Helsinki who specializes in the development of learning and knowledge management solutions. He has been deeply involved in the development of e-learning tools since 2013 with John Wiley & Sons Inc, as well as conducting his own research in learning tools interoperability, standardization, best practices, and methodologies of effective self-teaching. As a member of the Organization for Ethical Source, Alex is also working on licensing strategies for the protection of digital autonomy and rights of e-learning users.

Moderator

Alex Culliere and Roberto Gaetano

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