Open Science Resources Summer School
The Open Science Resources summer school aims to offer to teachers from all over Europe the chance to get acquainted with open educational resources repositories and be trained to use existing materials and relevant tools so as to design top quality educational activities that may be easily retrievable and available at anytime from anywhere. Besides the main training sessions, participants will have the opportunity to engage in activities that will offer them plenty of information about the integration of new technologies in the current teaching practices.
The course will include presentations and practical sessions (workshops) on:
- www and its educational uses for teachers;
- Strategies for searching information online; Introduction to the concept of learning objects;
- Introduction to learning repositories;
- Introduction to preparing, uploading and sharing learning resources;
- Introduction to metadata, educational metadata, metadata-based searching, and authoritative educational metadata schemas (DC-ed & IEEE LOM);
- Social metadata and Web 2.0 tools (folksonomies & social tagging), presentation of popular social tools (e.g. Flikr) and scenarios for their use in the classroom;
- Pedagogical strategies and best practices for using digital teaching & learning resources in the classroom; Hands-on session working on resources related to science, making use of the OSR portal (www.osrportal.eu), with references also to the COSMOS (www.cosmosportal.eu) and xlpora (ww.xplora.org) portals.
The training course includes more than 15 hours of lectures and demonstrations, and 15 hours of hands-on workshops.
A web site (including a common web space where participants will be able to upload materials) will be developed, providing the participants with all necessary course information prior to the start of the course, such as: course description, programme, educational material and relevant websites, and travel guidelines.
The organisers will provide the participants with recent European research reports in the field of formal and informal science education and technology-enhanced learning. Prior to the beginning of the course the participants will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the training course topic and the course methodology (by getting access to the course structure and tools).
The participants will be invited to participate in the Open Science Resources user group. The participants will also be asked to prepare a number of scenarios based on introducing inquiry-based techniques in science teaching, making use of resources from science centres and museums. These scenarios will be discussed in detail during the course.
Participation in this event is funded by the European Commission through the Comenius and Grundtvig programmes: therefore interested teachers or trainers can simply contact their relevant National Agency. The list of eligible countries (EU ones plus Turkey, Croatia, FYROM) and the contact details of the National Agencies can be found here:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc1208_en.htm.
The deadline for applications is January 16th, 2012. So we strongly suggest that:
- (a) You ask the members of your teams that are working with the learning design and implementation of learning scenarios to apply for Comenius (for school staff) and Grundtvig (for university/adult training staff) funding through your National Agencies, so that they can participate in the Summer School.
- (b) You forward this opportunity to contacts that could be interested (e.g. external institutions with which you are already working on learning design activities), letting them know about this training opportunity and inviting them to apply for funding. We would particularly encourage the participation of teachers/trainers that have been involved in the past in one or more of the project workshops.
Please read the attached PDF document which contains additional information about applying for grants.
For any further information please contact our colleagues from EA who are coordinating the organization of the event (eleftheria@ea.gr), together with the local hosts from Crete (neofotistos@physics.uoc.gr).
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