1. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
To 2.0 or 3.0 ? A Year of Change?
Lessons Learned from the
mEducator Project
Panos Bamidis
Assist. Prof.
Medical School
Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki,
Greece
http://www.meducator.net
2. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
What is mEducator?
A Best Practice Network (BPN) co-funded by the
– eContentplus 2008 programme of the European Commission
– Contract Reference: ECP-2008-EDU-418006
Run between May 2009 – April 2012
As a BPN, it developed and compared two different
solutions/frameworks
– Solution 1 = mEducator2.0 - based on Web2.0
– Solution 2 = mEducator3.0 – based on Web3.0
Scope: to draw best practice recommendations
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3. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
mEducator central idea
discover,retrieve, use, rate, re-use and
re-purpose educational content irrespective of
any Learning Management System use
Target 1: providers and users of such content:
– expert instructors (academics / health professionals)
– students / learners
Target 2: technical providers of educational
(health care) solutions
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4. The main product/service
1. mEducator 2.0: loosely coupled LCMSs via mashup technologies (Web2.0)
2. mEducator 3.0: LCMSs linked via (semantic) linked services (Web3.0)
partner
partner institute 2
institute 3
www.meducator2.net
www.meducator3.net
partner
institute 4
partner
partner institute 1
institute 5
5. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
Evaluation framework
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6. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
mEducator 2.0 vs mEducator 3.0
Web2.0: Web3.0 spaces
Centralised repository Distributed semantically
linked repositories
Data and presentation are data and presentation are
tightly integrated separated, with a number of APIs
Technically easier to maintain handling data interaction and the
and explain to users (teachers different instantiations handling
and students) the presentation
Basic functions (searches, more open, allows easier
descriptions) easy to integrate integration/connection of new
trough mashups internal or external repositories.
Requires content importing to Allows enrichment and linking
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European Commission
eContentplus programme
mEducator3.0
- The 2nd solution of mEducator project
Based on the idea of linked data
– linked data describes a method of publishing
structured data so that it can be interlinked and
become more useful.
– rather than serve web pages only for human readers,
why not extend them to share information in a way
that can be read automatically by computers?
– this enables data from different sources to be
connected and queried.
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European Commission
eContentplus programme
mEducator3.0 and linked data
But how we do this?
RDF http://ckan.net/package/meducator
> 35000 triples so far
> 1000 links to DBpedia & Bioportal
ontologies
SPARQL APIs used by 4 applications
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12. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+
Medical Education LINked Arena
MELINA+ is one of the implementations of the
mEducator3.0 technologies.
A content management system for medical educational
resources.
Based on Drupal, an open source
content management system.
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European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+ : Advanced features
DBpedia spotlight annotation
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17. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+ : Advanced features
Social learning collaboration
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18. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+ : Advanced features
Social learning collaboration
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19. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+ : Advanced features
Quality process control for learning resources
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20. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+ : Advanced features
Quality process control for learning resources
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21. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+ : Advanced features
Single sign on via WEBID module
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22. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
MELINA+
MELINA+ (Medical Education Linked Arena) is freely
available to:
Use directly! Just register and start using it at:
www.meducator3.net/melinaplus
download as an installation profile through :
www.meducator.net
Installation profiles provide site features and functions
for a specific type of site as a single download
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23. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
Innovation
The first real combination of social media
technologies (Web2.0) and the semantic web
(Linked Data/Web3.0) into education and
learning (Linked Learning / Linked Medical
Education)
Exploitation of the role semantics may play in
education and learning
Open source, multiple platforms
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24. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
A year of change? Harness Web2.0 / 3.0
Who do we impact?
• Communities of practice:
• Drupal CMS community
• Moodle LCMS community
• Medical Education/Virtual Patients/OpenLabyrinth community
• Open source software community
• Semantic web community
• Social Media communities
• Target groups:
• providers and users of such content such as:
• expert instructors (academics / health professionals)
• students / learners
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(health care) solutions
25. co-funded by the
European Commission
eContentplus programme
Info:
Visit the YouTube mEducatorproject channel
The project final video is in YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK5psY48kaQ
Followus in Facebook and tweeter
(meducator, @meducator)
pdbamidis@gmail.com
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