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EdReNe – Current state of educational repositories – national overview

 

Finland

 
 
EdReNe member:
Vetamix

 

Vetamix

 
 

Vetamix is a national learning portal providing repository of educational content and tools. The project is conducted as a strategic alliance between the Finnish National Broadcasting Company and the National Board of Education.

Main components in Vetamix

 

 
Storage
  • Digital Media Archive which is a central repository for the digital learning material YLE makes available, Video, Audio, Pictures, Graphs, Animations, UGC, learning objects
  • Bookmark, share, add to Lesson mixer (wysiwyg editor), comment, duplicate versions and tag using collabulary folksonomies
  • Personal folder

 

 
A virtual desktop with tools to generate, access, re-mix and re-use content
  • Editor (Lesson mixer), search engine, presentation tool, tagging using collabulary folksonomies

 

 
Social Hub for educators
  • Forums
  • Profiles/Business card
  • Sharing
  • Bookmaking colleagues
  • Content types in Vetamix

 

 
The type of content used by teachers varies a lot. The backbone of Vetamix is provided by Finnish National Broadcasting Company and Finnish National Board of Education. New content providers are introduced and emerging alongside web 2.0-3.0 applications. What impact UGC will have on Vetamix needs to be examined. The mixing of not public and not private is a grey zone.

 

 

Figure 1 Our view on the relationships between various content types.

 

Metadata and tagging in Vetamix

 
 

FinnEduMeta + User Generated Tagging = Vetamix Collabulary Folksonomy

Vetamix combines a top-down information structure with UGC tagging. All media objects within Vetamix are marked with meta data according to a interpretation of a national standard called FinnEduMeta. The editors are persuaded to curriculum linking scrutiny.

The media objects can be re-used and re-combined. As a result Vetamix has chosen to support user generated tagging.

Vetamix is a compromise between a structured metaclassification standard like FinnEduMeta and a rich and varied folksonomy. The solution ”collabulary ” (as defined by Teemu Arina) can be conceptualized as a compromise between a top down taxonomy and user generated tagging; a team of classification experts collaborate with content consumers, the teachers, to create rich, but more systematic content tagging systems.

 

Other educational portals and repositories

Opettaja.TV is an up and running teacher’s portal delivering audio-visual materials. It is driven by the YLE (Finnish National Broadcasting Company) with the financial support by the Finnish National Board of Education.

Edu.fi The various sections of the portal provide digital learning resources.

Linkkipaja, http://www.edu.fi/VerkkoapajaSearch.asp?path=498,516,37445,703
At Linkkipaja resources can be searched according to Finnish educational levels and institutions, as well as by subjects and topics that are part of Finnish educational system.

WSOY, Sanoma Learning and Literature, a private publisher, has launched three combined repository web services:

  1. Company home pages & web shop
  2. Koulukanava (School channel) with free material, closely connected to the company’s books. Pupils’ content is open, but the access to teachers’ content requires a password.
  3. OPIT e-learning service on an annual subscription basis. The e-learning service is provided through a virtual learning environment (VLE), and includes web2, GSM, GPS, content (more that 24 mill. LOs, other materials, curriculum based), and services (hosting, training, call centre).

The services have more than 134.000 users. The philosophy is that they buy at (1), and use at (2) or (3). Free content of Koulukanava is automatically in Opit

 

 

Sample search at OPIT