Introducing "e-me", the Hellenic Digital Educational Platform for Pupils and Teachers
by Elina Megalou, Anastasios Koutoumanos, Yiannis Tsilivigos and Christos Kaklamanis.
Presented at the the 7th Int. Conf. on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 July, 2015.
... • the Hellenic Digital Educational Platform • provided by the Greek MoE • to the K-12 community – of more than 1,100,000 pupils – and 120,000 teachers e-me is an open, safe social platform for pupils and teachers with strong support for sharing files and apps. e-me is an open, safe social platform for pupils and teachers with strong support for sharing files and apps. Screencast (demo)
school digital educational content, started in 2010 (dschool.edu.gr), with three pillars: – the Digital Educational Platform (e-me.edu.gr) – interactive e-textbooks for all school disciplines (e-books.edu.gr); – an ecosystem of digital Learning Repositories under the name “Photodentro” (photodentro.edu.gr) along with the Greek Aggregator of Educational Content, a national service for harvesting and accumulating educational metadata from various repositories. "Digital School Platform, Interactive Books, and Learning Object Repository" National Greek Program (Contract Νο 296441/2010-2015), co-financed by the European Union (ESF) and National funds in the context of Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), coordinated and implemented by the technical partner of the Greek Ministry of Education “Computer Technology Institute and Press - CTI DIOPHANTUS” (www.cti.gr), Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate.
Screencast (demo) The presentation begins with some indicative screenshots of the e-me platform. You may also view the demo screencast of the pilot version of e-me, before proceeding to the slides with the detailed information about e-me.
Dr Elina Megalou [email protected] Project Manager Dr Elina Megalou [email protected] Project Manager Prof. Christos Kaklamanis [email protected] Project Director Prof. Christos Kaklamanis [email protected] Project Director Diophantus Computer Technology Institute and Press Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate 26-28, Metropoleos str., GR-10563, Athens, Greece Tel: +30 210 3350600
Strong need for “Personal Learning Environments”: – for the specific needs of the individual learner – learners are placed at the centre – learning doesn’t stop when the course ends – bottom-up approach: • driven by learners’ needs • based on sharing rather than controlling – collaborative knowledge creation Yet another LMS? Another VLE? Yet another LMS? Another VLE?
what’s in a name? • e-me: my digital self • ειμί: I am, I exist, to be • To the best of our knowledge ... e-me is: – for school education, – designed to be used on a country-wide level – as the “official” digital working environment for pupils and teachers. one of the first (if not the first) open source implementation of a Personal Learning Environment one of the first (if not the first) open source implementation of a Personal Learning Environment
and Social • use of Social tools and services – wikis, blogs – instant messaging, online communication – social networking, media sharing • people don’t interact only with learning content • but also with other people • in formal and informal learning experiences • they communicate, they collaborate, • they learn!
“prosumers” • Learners not only “consume” educational content and “authoritative” information • but also become active creators of content • engage in social involvement • expect and accept review, feedback and appraisal from peers • appreciate the increased role of community
principles • putting pupils first – appealing them to adopt e-me in their everyday activities • competing with the market: not a sustainable model – when developing infrastructures with public funds – sensitive data and apps kept in regulated infrastructures – the platform opens up for 3rd party apps and components – allowing integration and use of familiar tools and services • smooth transition to the digital world – use of real-world metaphors – without adding new technological and artificial restrictions
• e-me is an integrated digital environment for pupils and teachers, safe, while at the same time open, for learning, communication, collaboration, and networking of all members of the school community; • a personal working space for every pupil and teacher along with a set of tools to facilitate everyday learning activities;
• a personal repository for content and applications; • a digital space for meeting and working together; and • a place for publishing and demonstrating the work of pupils, teachers and schools.
• Familiar look and feel of smart / mobile devices • A home “canvas” that can be – personalised – used as a “container” for interacting with content, – launching and using apps • e-me: it grows with me! – a simple user interface – allows all members of the school community to enter e-me without previous experience and/or training – and then extend it according to their increasing familiarisation and needs
• Personal storage, cloud-based file sharing • Social networking • Communication and collaboration • Workgroups and collaboration spaces • Publishing tools • Trusted store of (free) e-me apps
• Agile, lean process • Release early, release often • Frequent interaction with the K-12 community • Tight feedback loop • Mockups used for 1st feedback loops
• Software requirements specifications: – open call for feedback from all interested parties – ideas, suggestions, best practices – descriptions of intended usage, – scenarios of typical operation, – integration with daily classroom activities
• API-centric web-based system architecture • Open standards and protocols • Web 2.0 approaches, HTML5 • Open source software – node.js runtime environment for server-side scalable network applications, – MongoDB NO-SQL database – Redis data structure server
• e-me api: – REST based services – for internal and external components – well documented for any interested party • authentication / authorisation server – local user profiles, and/or Single Sign On • can provide authentication services for external systems: – Microsoft O365, Skype, etc.
hives • Accommodate smaller, self-contained social learn- places, with: – specific set of members, – applications, and – content • Various forms: – Regulated spaces for pupils of a classroom – Closed collaboration spaces – Workgroups around a certain topic – Open communities, as public spaces of common interest
hives • Membership: – Each hive has a “leader”, who creates the hive – as well as “assistants”, who assist in moderation of the hive’s content, and – and “members” who are invited or request to join in • Each hive includes: – shared files, working folders, cloud-storage – a “wall” for communication of all members – selected set of e-me apps
• e-me is developed by CTI Diophantus, Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate • it is currently under pilot testing • it is planned to be introduced in schools at the beginning of the next school year • Official page: http://e-me.edu.gr - http://e-me.gr • Pilot version: http://pilot.e-me.gr • Demo Video (screencast) • Official page: http://e-me.edu.gr - http://e-me.gr • Pilot version: http://pilot.e-me.gr • Demo Video (screencast)
school digital educational content, started in 2010 (dschool.edu.gr), with three pillars: – the Digital Educational Platform (e-me.edu.gr) – interactive e-textbooks for all school disciplines (e-books.edu.gr); – an ecosystem of digital Learning Repositories under the name “Photodentro” (photodentro.edu.gr) along with the Greek Aggregator of Educational Content, a national service for harvesting and accumulating educational metadata from various repositories. "Digital School Platform, Interactive Books, and Learning Object Repository" National Greek Program (Contract Νο 296441/2010-2015), co-financed by the European Union (ESF) and National funds in the context of Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), coordinated and implemented by the technical partner of the Greek Ministry of Education “Computer Technology Institute and Press - CTI DIOPHANTUS” (www.cti.gr), Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate.
authors would like to acknowledge and thank: • the development team of e-me: Athanasiou, S., Papadopoulou, K., Papantou, S., Kouneli, M., Dimopoulos, A., Tsakonas, P., Chloros G., Georgalas, Th., and Galatoulas, M. • as well as the consultants and domain experts who contributed to its design: Manouselis, N., Karampiperis, P. Stoitsis, G., Arapoglou, A., Skiadeli, M., and Kontogiannis, K.
Dr Elina Megalou [email protected] Project Manager Dr Elina Megalou [email protected] Project Manager Prof. Christos Kaklamanis [email protected] Project Director Prof. Christos Kaklamanis [email protected] Project Director Diophantus Computer Technology Institute and Press Strategy and Digital Educational Content Directorate 26-28, Metropoleos str., GR-10563, Athens, Greece Tel: +30 210 3350600
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