“Promoting Education in the Digital Age”. The Spanish experience. Calgary, 14 Nov. 2007.

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Antonio Saravia González
Director of Digital Society
Calgary, 14th November 2007
“Promoting Education in the Digital Age”
The Spanish experience

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Contents
1. Introduction
2. Programs in progress
3. Conclusions
2.1 Internet in Schools
2.2 Network of advanced centres for ICT use
2.3 Internet in the Classroom
2.4 Enseña
1.1 Red.es
1.2 Context

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Context
Red.es, point of connection of the administrations to launch, strengthen and
complement actions to promote ICTs in Education: The combination of effort,
territorial cohesion and the sharing of initiatives
ICT Solution Providers
17 Regional Administrations
Central Administration
7,000,000 non-university students
500,000 non-university teachers
20,000 public and subsidised centres
50 public universities
70,000 university teachers
1,400,000 university students

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52%
85%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2003 2006
224.916
514.970
0
100.000
200.000
300.000
400.000
500.000
600.000
2003 2006
Internet in Schools
Infrastructures
Broadband connectivity, local area networks and computer rooms
53
10
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
2003 2006
48%
85%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
2003 2006
Students per
connected PC
Centres with local
area network
PCs Broadband centres
THE PLANNED OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN EXCEEDED!

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Network of advanced centres for ICT use
National network of 44 innovative centres with more than 1,000
teachers and 11,000 pupils
Comprehensive project making it possible:
 To evaluate ICT solutions in the process to integrate
them in the classroom.
 To offer guidelines to help to define educational policy.
 To identify the most appropriate didactic-technological
scenarios according to the kind of centre.
 To show the advantages of the use of ICTs in teaching
and learning.
Our challenge: To have an active network of innovation centres,
where experiment and share all kind of ICT teaching and
learning experiences.
www.centrosavanzadostic.es

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Internet in the Classroom (IeA): 3 action lines
Equipment and infrastructure for the classroom
TrainingContent and Applications
Monitoring and Evaluation
Laptops...
PCs...
Projectors...
Interactive whiteboards...
Training materials...
Enseña
Digital content...
Agrega

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Executed: 46% of the total
IeA: Infrastructure
“Mobility and shared use”
666
8.327
14.523
0
5.000
10.000
15.000
20.000
2005 2006 oct-07
842
5.987
10.240
0
2.000
4.000
6.000
8.000
10.000
12.000
2005 2006 oct-07
107
871
1.549
0
500
1.000
1.500
2.000
2005 2006 oct-07
2.050
7.859
9.629
0
2.000
4.000
6.000
8.000
10.000
12.000
2005 2006 oct-07
No. of laptops Projectors Interactive
whiteboards
Peripheral
equipment
Wifi networks
0
1.054
7.477
0
2.000
4.000
6.000
8.000
2005 2006 oct-07
Equipment installed for use in the classroom

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IeA: Digital contents and Applications
Standard
Open source
Scalability
Sharing (Nodes Federation)
National standard + Contents Development + Sharing among administrations
LOM-ES: is a LOM application profile developed in
Spain to describe a learning object and similar
digital resources used to support learning. It is
a LOM metadata schema extension. A XML
binding has also been developed.
Creating and cataloguing Digital Learning
Objects (“creative commons licenses”)
Learning federation: access and
sharing of digital learning objects
using interoperability standards by
regional nodes - AGREGA

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IeA: Agrega
AGREGA = It is a federation of regional learning nodes repositories that provide
teachers and pupils access to world-class online curriculum digital learning
content using advanced interoperability technologies
Regional Node
Regional Node
Regional Node
Regional Node
Central Node

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To discover the real availability of ICT resources, their use and the capacities and the
degree of satisfaction of teachers and students.
2006 study on ICT resources in education centres (nationwide)
IeA: 2006 study said....
“Training needs, especially in methodology”
A very high percentage of them would like supplementary training in the different
areas evaluated (especially methodology), even those areas where they have had
previous training.
“Little confidence at the technical and teaching-related levels”
The teaching staff are more widely trained in “Office-like packages” than in teaching methodology, but in both cases only one
in five teachers claim to be confident at a technical or teaching-related level.
http://observatorio.red.es/estudios/educacion/index.html

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Training: two initiatives ongoing
Developing specific training materials aimed at preparing the teaching community,
through different training categories, for the use and educational application of ICTs
Training materials1
Offering onsite courses and support services in the use of ICTs aimed at teachers,
teacher trainers and families, to complement and reinforce the actions being offered by
the Educational Administrations
Enseña2

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Teachers need training in the didactic use of ICTs
Integrating ICTs into the classroom's daily activities requires actions aimed at training in
the effective and efficient use of technology
 A new approach  the creation of a skills map
 Commitment to methodological training  didactic proposals applied in the
classroom
 They are flexible and modular  and adapt to the teacher's requirements
 flexible  they have 3 levels of difficulty
 modular  they are divided in independent training modules
 Training categories  for self-training, online tutoring, in-class teaching
 Based on unified criteria  usability, accessibility and interoperability
 Created in accordance with the “creative commons” licensing system
 Catalogued under the LOM-ES standard and packaged according to reference model
SCORM 2004  Multiplatform
Guidelines
Objective
IeA: Training materials

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PRIVATE SECTOR: Definition and Implementation
 Technical-Pedagogical Office + Developers
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: Guidance and validation
 Experts from central and regional administrations
 Other experts of wide renown
Red.es: Co-ordination and Management
IeA: Training materials
Participating agents

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Enseña
Mainly aimed at teachers who need to improve their skills in the
use of the technological resources available in the classroom and
Teacher trainers who need to know the advanced use of these
resources
Also aimed at parents that need to know about the technologies
available at school and how they may facilitate the communication with
the centre and tutors
As a complement and reinforcement of the Training actions that the
Educational Administrations are offering. All the 17 regions involved.
To familiarise teachers with the
use of the technology, enabling
them to face the small incidents
that may arise in the classroom
Stimulate teacher’s interest for
continuous professional development
and update of their technology skills
Awareness raising on the
adequate and safe use of ICTs
knowledge of tools made available to
them (centre web portal, intranet
applications, email, chat)

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1 Preparation of a set of materials
adapted to every region status
Enseña
2 Onsite ICT courses to teachers and teacher
trainers
Specific support and assistance to
teachers in their own centres3
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Onsite services of guidance and
promotion for parents
5 Web environment of the programme
with all information and documentation
Starting on December 07, this programme requires a narrow co-ordination with regional
administrations (17 ad-hoc projects indeed)
http://www.red.es/actividades/ensena.html

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1st NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INTERNET IN THE CLASSROOM
(dynamization initiative with teacher as protagonist)
 Virtual conference established as a forum where teachers give and share
experiences, and which will serve as a training and learning mechanism between
equals, over more than 6 months: 1 April -30 October 2008
IeA: National Conference on 2008
Madrid
Cantabria
Andalusia
Catalonia
 Multisite conference which uses ICTs as a mechanism of interaction between the
sites, enabling greater participation of teachers (approx. 3.000 teachers onsite)
throughout 3 days, 26, 27 and 28 June 2008 in 4 sites simultaneously: Barcelona,
Granada, Santander y Madrid
www.congresointernetenelaula.es

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To analyse and share the best ICT
solutions to favour school-family
communication
Study on school-family
communication technologies
solutions (2008)
To discover the real availability of ICT
resources, their use and the capacities
and degree of satisfaction of teachers and
pupils from the standpoint of teaching
and learning
Quantitative studies on ICT
resources in education centres
(2006 and 2008)
To go into greater detail in the factors and
contexts that have enabled success and in
the teacher's basic skills. The best practices
will be documented audiovisually.
Qualitative study on “best practices
in the use of ICTs” (2007-2008)
To prepare an online catalogue with
the best ICT solutions and best
practices for this type of student with
special educational needs
Study on the use of ICTs for
students with Special Educational
Needs (2007-2008)
1 2
3 4
IeA: Follow up and Evaluation

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 Establishment of the Co-operation Framework between the Ministry of Industry, the
Ministry of Education and the Regional Administrations, to strengthen and complement
the strategies for promoting ICTs in Education.
 Red.es as connecting point between the administrations and the private sector:
detection of synergies and sum of efforts.
 1st strong infrastructure action in centres: broadband, local area networks, PCs, etc.
(“Internet in Schools”)
 Centralised purchasing  Economy of scale  Multiplication of results
 Establishment of a network of innovative education centres in ICT use
(“Network of Advanced Centres”)
 Model of introduction of ICTs in the classroom (“Internet in the Classroom”):
 equipment for the classroom based on mobility and shared use
 producing and sharing digital contents based on standards
 reinforcing teacher training with specific actions
 launching actions of Dynamization in the use of ICT mainly to teachers
 carrying out continuous follow up and evaluation
Conclusions
KEY FACTORS IN OUR LAST 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE

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