Creating and distributing content Het leermiddel centraal Table of contents Introduction From Database-publishing to the “Educational Content Catalogue” (ECC) Principles of the ECC What is next? Het leermiddel centraal Introduction Marco Meurink Marketingmanager Member Managementteam Experience: Distance-education/E-learning Educational Publishing Het leermiddel centraal Introduction Ontwikkelcentrum Dutch foundation Founded in 1993 Original objective: create educational tools for agricultural territory www.ontwikkelcentrum.nl Het leermiddel centraal Introduction Ontwikkelcentrum 20 employees 1000 publications ECC (20.000 LO’s, 40.000 users) Projectmanagement & consultancy for educational publishers, schools, companies, Europe Het leermiddel centraal The initial database The initial database: Content encoded in SGML SGML Automatic lay-out Publication ‘on paper’ (books) or as pdf on cd Custom made becomes possible Het leermiddel centraal ECC From August 15th, 2006: All content contains metadata (in the form of factsheets) Metadata is harvested Users have a log-in account Users have acces to content directly from the database Het leermiddel centraal ECC: why? Changes in schools demand new learning materials; students follow individual learning-routes spend time outside the walls of the school building decide what information they need, and when multimedia and interaction Het leermiddel centraal ECC: what 20.000 learning objects (text, movie, QMP, simulation) Our own materials Contentbroker: third-party-content Ready-made arrangements Users can make their own arrangements Downloadable and open Scorm-output for Learning platforms Het leermiddel centraal Use of Metadata International standard: IEEE-LOM Dutch Standard: ContentZoekProfiel Extra: Green ContentZoekProfiel The harvester collects metadata, not full text. Het leermiddel centraal ECC: a picture Groenkennisnet Educational Content Catalogue Livelink harvester XML PDF WMV Etc. Database Ontwikkelcentrumm PDF HTML Artik+ (Library Wageningen University) WMV XML PDF WMV Etc. Who’s next?? Teleblik (public broadcasting companies) Het leermiddel centraal Future steps - Social tagging and Metadata? User Generated Content Supporting Implementation Assisting other publishers and schools From students to employees European experience-exchange Expanding Community-businessmodel Het leermiddel centraal Het leermiddel centraal Het leermiddel centraal Het leermiddel centraal Het leermiddel centraal Het leermiddel centraal