eTwinning Thematic Conference: "Learning to think in a digital society"

1. The Up2U Next-Generation Learning
Platform –
The eduOER module
Ilias Hatzakis
GRNET, Up2University Consortium
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2. Up to University – project
Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation (2016-2017) ICT-22-2016 Call:
Technologies for Learning and Skills:
creation, mix and re-use of:
• content, services, applications and contextual data for interactive
learning processes,
• environments for new learning experiences and experimentation,
• educational support services
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3. bridge the gap between secondary schools and higher
education and research
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Digital natives, equipped/ addicted
Vs
Digitally educated

4. WHO?
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5. Up to University ecosystem
• Up2U is an integrated learning platform that brings together a wide
range of tools, infrastructures and services in order to serve the the
appropriate pedagogical models and learning outcomes
• Up2U will initially connect pilot schools in 7 countries (Poland, Italy,
Lithuania, Portugal, Hungary, Germany, Greece) and then be extended
to other countries
• Teachers and learners communities will be able to use the Up2U
ecosystem as an alternative education platform to store their personal
courses and produce their educational projects according to their own
choices and local needs and policies
• Share and collaborate
• Work in progress / first prototype

6. at school
on the goin library in museum at home
’Always-on’ education
FORMAL LEARNING SPACE INFORMAL LEARNING SPACE
SIS
LOR
Assessment
LMS
Attend
Search
Share
Create
U p 2 U E C O S Y S T E M
INFRASTRUCTURE
eduOER aggregation
Sync&Share ownCloud
WiFi eduroam TO UNIVERSITY

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Minimum Viable Product

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pedagogy before technology

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Open standards/ interoperability
Open source/ all code on github

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Portability
Scalability
modularity

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12. eduOER hub & portal & moodle plugin
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•eduOER collects open educational content (mainly lecture recordings, webinars, video clips, audio-visual objects,
animations, text, assignments etc.) at the European level and then delivers it both to the end-user and to other higher level
OER aggregators or services (such as OpenEducationEuropa or OpenAIRE) and platforms (Drupal, PuMukit, Moodle,
Kaltura, Canvas).
•eduOER is not a repository (does not store content) but a referatory (only stores and handles metadata).
•eduOER is a service also to content providers, helping them to manage, improve and better expose their metadata.

13. eduOER services to content providers
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eduOER
metadata
analytics
service
eduOER services to content providerseduOER services to content providers
eduOER OAI-
PMH target
service
eduOER mapping
and transformation
service
eduOER metadata
validation service
eduOER monitoring
service
eduOER search API
Drupal Module
http://services.oer.geant.org/monitoring/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/GEANT%20OER%20Metadata%20Analysis
http://services.oer.geant.org/monitoring/#/dashboard/elasticsearch/GEANT%20OER%20Aggregation

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16. Collaboration opportunities
• Schools, teachers, learner communities (try out new things,
experiment with new methodology, know more about their
students, improve skills, engage better, collaborate)
• Developers communities (the perfect space to test apps)
• Content repositories/ content providers (that wish to make
their content more visible or to improve their metadata)
• Commercial providers (that wish to use up2u as a vehicle to
promote their product)
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17. User experience
https://snf-683722.vm.okeanos.grnet.gr/
https://learn.test.up2university.eu/login/index.php
• Username: admin
• Password: Up2UT3st*
GRNET’s Test
Topic 1/ edit topic/ go to the last icon
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18. Thank you!
www.up2university.eu
https://learn.up2university.eu
hatzakis@grnet.gr