EdReNe – Current state of educational repositories – national overview

The French National Educational Resource Centre, which is part of the nationwide network SCÉRÉN (Service Culture Publications and Resources for National Education), is a public publisher of the Ministry of Education in France that makes available professional resources (tools, advice, training) to all those involved in education by promoting the use of technology in schools and by contributing to the development of arts and culture in schools.

Educasources
Educasources is a Digital Educational Resources Metadata Repository containing about 7000 online references. Educasources offers a free access to educational metadata, proposes thematic selections in connection with French curricula and also a search engine with advanced search through several sorting criteria (educational level, educational subjects, keywords and thematic sub-repertories). Educasources target users are teachers, librarians and other members of the educational community (pupils, students, parents …).

The CNDP’s LOM application profile is used. Resources are described using CNDP’s educational controlled vocabularies (French educational thesaurus Motbis and other educational vocabularies).

http://www.educasources.education.fr.

Sialle
Sialle is an open source educational software information online service. Teachers are encouraged to submit their comments/feedback about the software. Subscription is required (free of charge). Metadata is published through Educasources.

http://www.sialle.education.fr.

Murene
MURENE is a federated search engine published by the French Ministry of Education. MURENE provides a free access to several thematic databases and also to interdisciplinary sites (i.e. Educasources and PRIMTICE). Metadata is based on LOMFR, the French application profile of IEEE-LOM.

http://murene.education.fr.

Lesite.tv
Lesite.tv is an educational TV/audiovisual service on demand. The catalogue is composed of 2270 videos and pedagogical documentation and services for teachers (thematic files, pedagogical activities, pedagogical evidences and blogs).

The website and programs are produced and broadcasted in partnership with France 5, the French educational TV channel, and in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture and communication.

Target users are teachers, librarian staff and students (3 academics standards of the French school system École 6-10 years Collège 10-15 years Lycée 15-18 years). Subscription fees according to the number of pupils.

http://www.lesite.tv.

Correlyce
Correlyce is the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region metadata repository. The resources come from private publishers and SCEREN. Correlyce conforms to LOMFR application profile.

http://www.regionpaca.fr/index.php?id=correlyce.

PrimTICE
PrimTICE is a directory of several hundreds of teaching scenarios involving the use of ICTEs, from initial classes to Cycle 3 (the third stage of primary education in France). The portal has a dedicated a search engine that offers various interfaces and a graphic display for results relating to B2i school fields. The educational scenarios listed in the PrimTICE directory are indexed according to the IEEE-LOM.

http://primtice.education.fr

Edubases
Edubases are several interdisciplinary repositories of about 11 000 teaching scenarios, teacher’s pedagogical materials and other pedagogical resources. The resources contained in Edubases are described according to the LOMFR application profile.

http://www2.educnet.education.fr/secondaire/usages/edubases/

Thematic Digital Universities
The French Ministry of Education funds the federation of universities grouped by thematic or regional interests. The goal of Thematic Digital Universities is to share learning and educational resources in interoperable systems accessible both through the digital universities portals and from the institutions’ digital workspaces.

UNIT
UNIT is the Digital Thematic University specialized in Engineering and Technology. The repository contains about 1000 resources.

http://www.unit.eu

AUNEGE
AUNEGE is the Digital Thematic University specialized in Economy and Management. The repository contains about 100 resources.

http://www.aunege.org/infos/search_XML?schemaID=LOM

UNISCIEL
UNISCIEL is the Digital Thematic University specialized in Science. The repository contains about 100 resources.

http://trouver.unisciel.fr/

UMVF
UMVF is the Digital Thematic University specialized in Medicine. The repository contains about 4000 resources.

http://www.umvf.prd.fr/index.php

UOH
UOH is the Digital Thematic University specialized in Humanities. The repository contains about 100 resources.

http://www.uoh.fr

UVED
UVED is the Digital Thematic University specialized in Environment and Sustainable Development. The repository contains about 150 resources.

http://www.uved.fr/index.php?id=412

Canal-U
Canal-U is the digital video library for the higher education. The service was funded by the Ministry of Education. Target users are teachers and students. Resources are described under the LOMFR application profile.

http://www.canal-u.education.fr

CERIMES
CERIMES is the multimedia resources and information center for higher education and it is associated to CNDP. CERIMES proposes different services all presented under a Dewey Decimal Classification browsing system: a catalog of 271 free online videos, 9415 audiovisual, multimedia and internet resources and videos of different conferences. Some resources can be bought.

http://www.cerimes.education.fr

Edumedia
Edumedia is a commercial publisher of educational interactive simulations which cover all the main scientific subjects for levels ranging from primary schools to university undergraduates. 380 simulations are available to any teacher whose school is an eduMedia subscriber. The metadata does not conform to any standard but it can be mapped to a LOM application profile.

http://www.edumedia-sciences.com