Kennisnet in the Netherlands

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Kennisnet in the Netherlands

• Ict League

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Content

• About Kennisnet
• Kennisnet mission/strategy
• Kennisnet products and services
• Innovative programs
• Ict in Education

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Kennisnet

• An independent foundation
• Internetorganisation
• Educational organisations public share holders
• No exclusive contracts
• No profit
• No advertisements
• Privacy protection
• A Trusted Party for the use of internet in the
  field of education

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Mission Kennisnet

• Kennisnet is the public internetorganisation for
  the educationsector
• Create a virtual space for learning
• Organise and publish content
• Deliver services which makes learning possible
  any time, any place in an userfriendly way
• Create a technical platform
• Be there for any question

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Elements for a virtual learningspace
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Internetaccess untill 2004
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Internetaccess after 2004
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Locations and usersrealised
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Elements for a virtual learningspace
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Product- and serviceportfolio

• Entree Authorisation and Authentication
• Findengine
• Portal and Portalcomponents
• Websitemaker
• Quizzengine
• Communities
• ThinkQuest
• GrassRoots
• Informing schools/ presentations
• Platform Content and Services

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Important authentication and authorisation
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Single sign on Entree
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Findengine Davinda

• Collection of education related sources
• Collected and evaluated by teachers
• Additional sources libraries, schoolTV,
• Now more than 30.000 sources available PO, VO en
  BVE
• 1500 teachers involved in content selection and
  rating

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Elements for a virtual learningspace
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The Kennisnet Portalmuch content, growing
activity

• 60.000 pages in the portal
• Average of 550.000 visits per week
• 100 content providers
• Incl. Educational publishers, newspapers, school
  TV
• 4000 mini-communities
• 1500 teachers involved in content selection and
  rating
• Webcontests (Thinkquest)
• Eg. 400 ThinkQuest Junior teams (3100 contestants)

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Elements for a virtual learningspace
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Teacher central approach
SERVICEDESK
LOW
SCHOOLPRESENTATIONS
WORKSHOPS
INVOLVEMENT
GRASSROOTS
THINKQUEST
TRAIN THE TRAINER
HIGH
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Program Educational contentchainProgram Virtual
Platform for CS Surfnet/Kennisnet
An integral approach to solving obstacles and to
exploit possibilities
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Educational contentchain
Supply
Use
Contentchain
Development
Supply
Find
Arrange
Use

• Sufficient educational content
• Varied
• Practical developmental tools

• Transparant
• Central
• Shielded

• Add value to content
• Individualize
• Flexible
• Useful tools (LCMS / LMS)

• Easy to use
• Authentication and Autorisation
• Personalisation

Needs
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Services Kennisnet in the content chain
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Internetaccess after 2004
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From installation to operational use

central ? decentral Development platform
CS
2003 the turn around
2004 the use
exploitatiion Platform CS optimising use
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Context Ict in Education
Life long learning
Individualism
Informationsociety
Learner central
Innovation
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General remarks on ICT and education

• It is not the lack of vision but its defining
  the first step that causes the problem
• The ability to implement change in a present
  system
• The educational sector needs a lot of
  changemanagers with at least feeling for
  technology
• People have to grow in terms of ICT-literacy
• Technology still has to become better in terms of
  userfriendliness and stability

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Educational redesign
Toplevel vision, mission, strategy
Takes at least 5 years
Middlelevel design of processes
Workforce mental and method change