Teacher Education (TE) is a strategic field for Europe's knowledge society and is undergoing rapid evolution. Share.TEC supports this process by creating a digital environment that fosters access, retrieval and reuse of resources for TE across Europe. The underlying vision is that digital resources are vehicles of educational innovation which can help build bridges among the different cultures of the member states. The Share.TEC system will be an extendible federated aggregation of resources, providing access both to the partners' own content (about 70,000) and to other TE repositories. This is made possible by a metadata migration process featuring semantic, linguistic and cultural interoperability. The intended users of the system will be teacher educators, teachers engaged in self-guided learning, and developers and publishers of digital resources for TE. Share.TEC will be adaptive to the specific needs of these users and take into account their professional profiles through an ontology-based approach designed to capture individual differences. Share.TEC will cover both professionally-developed, commercially-distributed content and open resources created by users, proposing an innovative model for managing their coexistence in a sustainable fashion. Effective brokerage will be offered between federated TE resources and user demand, which is strongly influenced by a variety of personal, curricular, cultural and national factors. To improve the matching mechanism, Share.TEC will integrate a folksonomy based approach and personalisation functions such as user history. Since educational resources are typically rooted in local cultures, the project will have a strong focus on cross-cultural aspects so that users can benefit from contents developed in external contexts.
Negli ultimi anni la formazione dei docenti (TE - Teacher Education), ossia quell'area della formazione continua che include sia la formazione iniziale che l'aggiornamento professionale degli insegnanti, si connota sempre più come un'area critica e soggetta ad evoluzioni. La TE, infatti, non solo sta assumendo un ruolo chiave nella definizione delle carriere e dei profili professionali dei docenti, ma si sta confermando un'area strategica per la costituzione di una società della conoscenza anche a livello europeo. Per giocare un ruolo importante in questo processo, il mondo della TE deve però aprirsi all'innovazione ed assumere una prospettiva transnazionale, multilingue e multiculturale. Molte infatti sono ancora le barriere che ostacolano questa prospettiva di sviluppo: prima fra tutte la natura eterogenea della TE in Europa, un'area che fa riferimento a diversi approcci, contesti e sistemi nazionali che sono fortemente connotati sia dal punto di vista culturale, che linguistico; l'intrinseca complessità della TE, che coinvolge diverse tipologie e livelli di istituzioni educative e differenti aree disciplinari; l'assenza di un reale senso di appartenenza ad una comunità di teacher educator al di fuori dei confini locali, specialmente a livello europeo. In questo contesto si colloca il progetto Share.TEC, promosso e coordinato da ITD/CNR e finanziato nell'ambito del programma della Commissione Europea denominato eContentPlus. Il progetto si propone di supportare la condivisione a livello europeo di contenuti digitali per la Teacher Education (TE) attraverso lo sviluppo di un sistema multilingue centrato sull'utente ed in grado di rappresentare la multiculturalità del mondo della TE. Un'ontologia relativa al mondo della TE (Teacher Education Ontology) e alle competenze degli attori coinvolti, si propone di guidare la connotazione dei materiali e la gestione di un accesso personalizzato al sistema, sulla base degli effettivi bisogni degli utenti, del loro contesto culturale e del loro profilo professionale.
Share.TEC - SHAring digital REsources in the Teaching Education Community
Stefania Bocconi;Jeffrey Earp;
2008
Abstract
Teacher Education (TE) is a strategic field for Europe's knowledge society and is undergoing rapid evolution. Share.TEC supports this process by creating a digital environment that fosters access, retrieval and reuse of resources for TE across Europe. The underlying vision is that digital resources are vehicles of educational innovation which can help build bridges among the different cultures of the member states. The Share.TEC system will be an extendible federated aggregation of resources, providing access both to the partners' own content (about 70,000) and to other TE repositories. This is made possible by a metadata migration process featuring semantic, linguistic and cultural interoperability. The intended users of the system will be teacher educators, teachers engaged in self-guided learning, and developers and publishers of digital resources for TE. Share.TEC will be adaptive to the specific needs of these users and take into account their professional profiles through an ontology-based approach designed to capture individual differences. Share.TEC will cover both professionally-developed, commercially-distributed content and open resources created by users, proposing an innovative model for managing their coexistence in a sustainable fashion. Effective brokerage will be offered between federated TE resources and user demand, which is strongly influenced by a variety of personal, curricular, cultural and national factors. To improve the matching mechanism, Share.TEC will integrate a folksonomy based approach and personalisation functions such as user history. Since educational resources are typically rooted in local cultures, the project will have a strong focus on cross-cultural aspects so that users can benefit from contents developed in external contexts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.