Intute and Organic'Edunet

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Intute and Organic.Edunet

• Jackie Wickham
• ALLCU, Oxford, July 2008

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What is Intute
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Use of the Internet for Studies
Students Do you ever use the Internet to do
research for essays or projects?

• The Internet is clearly an essential tool
• Almost all students use if for researching essays
  and projects
• (Market research by FDS Feb/March 2008)

Source FDS online survey
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Solving the frustrations of the Internet

• The Internet is a powerful tool for education and
  research, providing a range of educational
  resources to support traditional teaching and
  learning
• Issues of trust, quality, information overload,
  poor searching and retrieving skills are
  significant concerns particularly in the
  context of education and research
• Intute is a free, national Internet service aimed
  at higher and further education, providing the
  very best web resources for teaching, learning
  and research

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Intute is different

• Intute uses a national network of information and
  subject specialists to select and evaluate
  Internet resources for their quality and
  relevance.
• including the Wellcome Trust, Royal College of
  Nursing, University of Oxford.

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Network of specialists

• Four subject groups comprise Intute
• Arts and Humanities
• Health and Life Sciences
• Science, Engineering and Technology
• Social Sciences
• Hand selected, quality assured content by the
  community for the community

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Use The Intute website
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Finding the Best of the Web

• Search/Browse the catalogue
• Over 120,300 records, each one hand selected and
  described by a subject specialist
• Simple keyword or phrase searching
• Refine your search by type of resource
• Simple or Advanced searching options
• Browse by subject heading or keyword

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Or integrate the content into your own site
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Examples of integrating..
Create your reading lists from Intute resources
Put Intute search box on your library Web page,
eg. for Intute Social Science resources
List latest language resources added to Intute,
on your library Web page
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Intute Search Box
Records from Intute catalogue
Intute RSS Feeds
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Contact details

• Jackie Wickham
• Service Manager Health and Life Sciences
• Jacqueline.wickham_at_nottingham.ac.uk

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• Co-funded by the European Commission
• eContentplus programme

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contents

• Overview and partners
• content
• scenarios
• connect to

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overview
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Organic.Edunet

• builds a multilingual federation of learning
  repositories
• content about Organic Agriculture and Agroecology
• for the awareness education of European Youth

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about

• Targeted Project
• funded by the eContentplus Programme
• started on October 2007
• duration 36 months
• co-funded by EC
• Overall budget 4.800.000 euros

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overall coverage

• 15 partners from 10 EU countries

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need

• systematic collection and categorisation of
  learning resources related to OA and AE
• integrating online environment
• increase use and reuse
• study assessment of usage scenarios
• in the context of formal educational programs in
  Europe

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objectives

• Publication of content
• Online environment search, retrieval, use
• Scenarios to support teaching and learning
• Evaluation pilot trials
• Sustainable structures

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Public
Underpinned by..
Database of scenarios
Search and Browse learning resources
Repository interface manual or electronic upload
Ontologies to support search and retrieval
Find scenarios - using organic resources in
teaching and learning
Federated repository
Educational metadata (IEE LOM)
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targeted users

• tomorrows consumers highschool children
• to be familiarized with concepts benefits of OA
  AE
• tomorrows professionals students of
  agricultural universities
• to be educated about methods and practices of OA
  AE

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content
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content stakeholders

• EU-funded initiatives
• public or private not-for-profit organisations
• agricultural publishing houses
• agricultural universities institutes
• rural schools teachers
• other?

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University/college resources

• consortium-provided content resources
• BIO_at_GRO, ECOLOGICA, COMPASS projects
• selection from Intute repository resources
• teaching resources from agricultural universities
• other tutor-provided resources

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BIO_at_GRO resources
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Resource types

• Lectures
• Best practice guides
• Games
• Documents
• Websites
• Exercises

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school teachers resources

• type
• worksheetslesson plans, etc.
• topic area
• life sciences

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public resources - examples

• FAO
• Organic ePrints
• SEAE Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecologica

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scenarios
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Cooking with Ecological Products
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Excursion to an Organic Farm
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connect to

• need more information?
• want to get affiliated with Organic.Edunet?
• visit
• http//www.organic-edunet.eu
• email
• Jacqueline.wickham_at_nottingham.ac.uk