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Palestine 09.12.2015 Hans De Four (Belgium) Coordinator (ad interim) OER-network KlasCement Founder STEM-ICT-kidslab Fyxxi.be Organisor ICT-days for up to one thousand teachers [email protected] KlasCement.net A source of inspiration WHY? 12 reasons why an Elearn Portal is one of the best investments for education • • • • • • • • • Teachers win time Teachers see, use and reuse good practices Part of professional development Inspiration for new lessons or new learning methods Good examples for teacher training Networking: Learning resource network Part of IT-strategy to digitise schools Innovation of education Possibility to create connection with other portals and content from other organisations • One central point to start - Single sign-on • Better communication with teachers • Ministry can share content and information CONTENT Successful! COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY HOW? . STRATEGY CONTENT Success factor 1: CONTENT “The user is the content” • Content – It’s what teachers need! – Validation to find content more easily and avoid copyright problems • User – List of users with search engine – User profile with activity on portal TECHNOLOGY Success factor 2: TECHNOLOGY • Interface / Design: Easy to use – Demonstrate the portal in schools to see how teachers use it – Listen to the users – Log every action > Statistics • Coding / Content: Easy to find – A good and fast search engine is crucial – But it can’t work without good metadata: • keywords • vocabularies COMMUNICATION Success factor 3: COMMUNICATE • with members: – Newsletters – Automated messages (eg. birthday) • with members who share: – Correct (small) mistakes – Thank you! • with future members: – PR in educational magazines, via blogs, at fairs, … VISION (STRATEGY) Success factor 4: VISION (STRATEGY) • Ownership: It’s YOUR site – Bottom-up – Horizontal (same level) • User engagement – Activate inactive users – Stimulate to rate, comment, share, … • Gamification – Points – Tips & tricks • Innovate or copy • Keep it simple! elearn.edu.ps Elearning Portal Palestine ACHIEVEMENTS CONTENT A lot of learning resources were already approved and others are ready for approval by a content evaluation team TECHNOLOGY Attractive new interface and design Willingness to develop within the MoE COMMUNICATION Big promotional campaign VISION (STRATEGY) Adopted in MoE Elearning Portal Palestine ADVICE: TEAM – A NEW UNIT CONTENT Validation coordinator (0,5 FTE) Validation team: 16 teachers – 16 supervisors TECHNOLOGY Technical coordinator (0,2 FTE) Two developers (2 FTE) One server manager (0,2 FTE) COMMUNICATION Assistant (who also takes care for administration) (0,6 FTE) VISION General coordinator (1 FTE) Elearning Portal Palestine ADVICE: TEAM – A NEW UNIT General coordinator (120%) Administration (30%) Technical coordinator (50%) Server admin (20%) Developer 1 (100%) Developer 2 (100%) External developer (20%) Communication (30%) Validation coordinator (50%) Validators (32 x 15% OR 10 x 50%) Elearning Portal Palestine ADVICE: DEDICATED TIME CONTENT Reduce the workload of supervisors Give teachers time to validate (15% per week) Goal: Validation of new content within two weeks at the most TECHNOLOGY Don’t overestimate the capacity of the team (eg. Mobile app) COMMUNICATION Engagement of users – Gamification – Ownership VISION No other tasks for the general coordinator Elearning Portal Palestine ADVICE: TOOLS CONTENT Validation room in MoEHE Good internet connection + Social network + Facebook Hardware and internet support at home TECHNOLOGY External hosting, that reliable and secured, with regular meetings Internal server for backup, development, source code repository Debugging procedure with ticketing system COMMUNICATION A budget for promotional campaigns VISION An office for the team Good infrastructure in schools and at home + Wi-Fi connectivity Elearning Portal Palestine ADVICE: TRAINING CONTENT For validators: Validation manual: Criteria – Most important guide For teachers: Digital skills TECHNOLOGY Training of developers in PHP, Drupal Time to study the code (and make mistakes) COMMUNICATION Writing for the web VISION All skills to become a coordinator who motivates, coaches, has a vision, thinks positively & innovative, believes in the project, … Are you a ARE YOU A TEACHER? teacher? TIME TO SHARE YOUR WORK WORK TO SHARE YOUR TIME • By sharing: – you’ll become smarter – you’ll be happier – you’ll have a better network – you’ll win time • You gain knowledge by sharing BE CONFIDENT BELIEVE IN YOUR (NET)WORK • Make time to share! • Start uploading, even if you hesitate about – Quality – Usefulness • The community will decide (and you’ll be surprised) • Sharing inspires! TAKE SHAPE SHARE • • • • • • • Download Change Use the content in your classroom Evaluate and change Upload Comment and rate online Become the most active member! ReUse ReMix ReShare Hans De Four Coordinator (ad interim) KlasCement Twitter: @dj4am [email protected] Images used in this presentation Alphacoders: • wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=511052 Designed by Freepik.com: • www.freepik.com/free-vector/megaphone-and-business-equipment_794411.htm • www.freepik.com/free-vector/flying-rocket-success-diagram-vector_760539.htm • www.freepik.com/free-vector/vector-science-teacher-illustration_716538.htm • www.freepik.com/free-vector/thank-you-speech-bubbles_761914.htm And by myself: