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SHAring digital REsources in the Teaching Education Community
A brief guide to the three-year project co-funded by the European Commission. Share.TEC supports access to, exchange and re-use of digital resources and practitioner experiences within Teacher Education at European level.

Executive Summary
about this report
This report provides an overview of Share.TEC, a three-year project cofunded by the European Commission (eContentplus programme) that supports access to, exchange and re-use of digital resources and practitioner experiences within Teacher Education at European level. Digital resources are in fact powerful vehicles of educational innovation that can help build bridges among the different teacher training cultures in Europe. The Share.TEC system connects a number of different teacher training related repositories and offers a unified access point and query mechanism that adapts to the users specific language and cultural context. This helps to enhance both individual practice and also to enrich established communities through sharing on a broader scale. The report aims to provide an overall picture of the project and its outcomes in order to foreground some key learning from the project and draw attention to some of the results achieved. Readers interested in the technological dimension of Share.TEC (the portal, metadata models, etc.) are likely to find the full version of the Final Project Report (available at www.share-tec.eu) to be the one closest to their concerns. On the other hand, readers more interested in the usage and development side of Share.TEC may find this document useful to get an idea of the portal from the users viewpoint and how Share.TEC is positioned in the panorama of digital resources and Teacher Education.

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A specialized system for retrieving Teacher Education resources
Share.TEC has undertaken to build an advanced user-focused system that aggregates metadata describing TErelated digital resources located Europewide. The system offers personalized, culturally - sensitive brokerage for the retrieval of relevant digital content. Provision of an effective brokerage system for TE The matching of digital resources to actual user needs is pursued by (a) giving practitioners a clear pedagogical picture of content items; (b) offering personalisation and adaptivity features that capture the suitability of a resource to a given set of requirements; (c) taking into account differences in national and cultural education systems. In practical terms, the Share.TEC system provides advanced brokerage services so that users: can use familiar terms to search for resources; can rely on personalised options for performing their queries; view results ordered according to personalised ranking. Thanks to these services, users have access to a wide range of digital contents for Teacher Education (TE) available through the Share.TEC portal. Semantic, linguistic/cultural and technical interoperability The Share.TEC portal services are based on a semantic core called the Teacher Education Ontology (TEO). This model integrates and extends existing knowledge taxonomies in order to describe the specifics of the TE field. It captures and relates relevant concepts, mapping them across European cultural and language boundaries. Fostering reusability Share.TEC users can report and rate their actual experience with a specific resource by adding their experiential annotations (free text) and rankings. This information helps users to understand retrieved resources better and to reuse them in various contexts. Further support comes from the systems recommender function, which points users to potentially interesting resources retrieved, previewed and reused by other practitioners with similar characteristics. Provision of effective means compliant with international standards Two user-friendly support tools help users to add their own resources in the Share.TEC system. The Resource Integration Companion Kit, or RICK, tool supports and guides individual users who want to tag and describe their resources so they can share their knowledge and digital contents with other practitioners. The Metadata Migration Facility, or MMF, helps institutional users willing to add their collection of already tagged resources to the Share.TEC system. Overcome resistance to solutions Not Invented Here Share.TEC aims to give teacher educators the chance to learn about praxis that would otherwise remain largely hidden to them and their communities. Share.TEC seeks to support this process by involving both individual practitioners and existing TE professional associations at national and European level, Engagement is sought not only through portal use but also via focused user involvement activities like workshops, training sessions and online activities.

Project Goals

The Share.TEC portal

A knowledge hub for TE resources
The Share.TEC portal connects a number of different Teacher Education-related repositories and offers a unified access point and query mechanism that adapts to the users specific language and context. By providing interoperability between these repositories, Share.TEC broadens content reusability perspectives across Europe. Key innovative solutions adopted in Share.TEC include, among others, the portal functionalities and user interface, multilinguality approach, semantic layer (ontology and application profile), portal architecture and the user-oriented expansion tool RICK (Resource Integration Companion Kit). To facilitate the access to relevant resources, query results are automatically ordered by relevancy and can subsequently be sorted by language, format or date. Results can be filtered by collection, language, format, educational institution, resource type, cost / free. To make Share.TEC easier to navigate and use, the portal presents three main areas to explore and work in, namely TAKE, USE and GIVE. Casual visitors have access to a limited range of basic functionalities. By contrast, registered/logged-in users can take full advantage of portal features, including personalisation and adaptivity and the possibility to enrich the portal and its community by adding their contribution. Being logged in or not can strongly affect the users experience, so its important to make their status clear to them. Accordingly, when they log in, the platform logo changes to MyShare.TEC, indicating that they have full rights accorded to registered/logged users and can expect personalisation and adaptivity during interaction.

MyShare.TEC
TAKE. USE. GIVE.

TAKE
This area is where users can search or browse to find TE resources of interest. Simple and advanced search are available as separate options. Simple search is designed to provide Google-like immediacy and ease-of-use; as text is entered in the search box indexed suggestions are provided automatically. Advanced search can be performed by entering either free text or by selecting the values available for a range of metadata fields (e.g. digital content type, educational context, etc). Free text search is available, as well as different options for browsing resources (i.e. collection, educational Institution, teacher practice context, knowledge area, generic skills).

USE
This area is designed to give users an up-to-date view of recent activity on the platform and allow them to check and access their own artefacts and activity. General platform statistics are also available (e.g. resource number, collections, community members). Additionally, (registered) users can access personalized information, including: Recommended for you - list of resource descriptions generated in response the user profile and history. My Artifacts link to the users bookmarks, comments and ratings. Community link to the groups area. Search history most recent searches the user has performed.

GIVE This area allows (registered) users to contribute to the community by uploading and describing their own resources, adding annotations and ratings. To foster digital content reuse, Share.TEC users can add an experiential annotation (open text) and ratings (1-5 stars) that report their actual experience with a specific digital resource. These are used within the system for facilitating users in (a) retrieving resources, (b) understanding them and (c) reusing them in various cultural contexts. Users can also add their own TE resources to the portal and describe them using the portal RICK tool, which assists users to tag resources that have not been previously tagged.

Resource description
Essentially, Share.TEC is a system that collects descriptions of digital resources related to Teacher Education (TE). Each of these descriptions, or records, contains a set of information about a particular digital resource, including a link to the digital resource on the web. The fields comprising this information set, and the predefined values associated to them, are drawn from the Share.TEC metadata profile. Values in some of the fields can be viewed in more than one language, typically English plus at least one language among Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. Community statistics are also displayed for each resource description, i.e. most recent view, total views, views today, total bookmarks, total number of comments. Together with search results, the portal provides recommendations about resources that are similar to the record viewed (YOU MAY ALSO LIKE TO SEE) and about other descriptions that have been viewed by users who browsed that particular item (USERS WHO BROWSED THIS ITEM ALSO BROWSED).

Multilinguality and social services

The Share.TEC portal has been designed to be multilingual. Portal multilinguality encompasses four aspects: the metadata of digital resources as displayed by the portal, the metadata used as search criteria, the portal interface and the portals online help. To support multilinguality, the Share.TEC system retains internal representation of various data in a multilingual way by means of the Teacher Education Ontology (TEO), metadata description, metadata and user interface. The user can set the portal interface as desired. When users query the Share.TEC repository, they either use free-text search or select from the search criteria related to the metadata elements. In the latter case the criteria are also automatically mapped to the corresponding language-independent nodes in the repositorys TEO. This provides the possibility to search in one language and to find relevant resources described in another language. The portal also offers personalisation and social networking services, including: adaptivity of the user interface, adaptivity of the presentation of the search results (ranking), and recommendations of specific resources and social interactions. These are based both on explicit user preferences and on implicit user characteristics, heuristically obtained from user behaviour logs and other statistical data. The adaptive behaviour of the Share.TEC system is mainly (although not exclusively) aimed at identifying those digital resources that best suit the users needs without asking them to enumerate the requirements in detail. Whenever possible, users are spared the trouble of explicitly expressing these needs as query parameters; the values are inferred from the user model.

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Overall architecture
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+ The RICK Tools

Integration kit for user-generated resources
To support user-oriented interactive annotation of resources, either from scratch or by enriching existing annotations with TE-specific metadata (based on CMM and TEO), an ad hoc tool was developed called the Resource Integration Companion Kit (RICK). There are two different versions of RICK, one devoted to expert annotators (Desktop RICK) and another devoted to final portal users, i.e. teachers educators (Portal RICK). Both versions provide a multilingual interface (at the moment Bulgarian, Dutch, English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish) and a multicultural functionality that addresses the educational peculiarities of each national context supported. The main objective of Desktop RICK is to enrich existing metadata records stored in the distributed repositories. This tool offers four main functionalities: creating a new description of a resource fromscratch; creating a template to use for generating multiple new resource descriptions; editing and enriching an existing description stored locally (the batch feature allows to apply this functionality on many elements simultaneously). Portal RICK is not a standalone tool but rather an integrated part of the Share.TEC portal. Essentially, the tool allows end users to describe the resources they want to make available for sharing. The main differences with the desktop version are that the fields are arranged in areas located on a single web page, and that no batch annotation feature is available. The RICK user manual includes both the installation guide (for the desktop version) and user guidelines presented in tutorial-like fashion so as to familiarize users with RICK by means of examples. In order to structure and facilitate metadata population, a CMM guide for non-technical indexers (such as TE, teachers, etc.) was also developed.

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Resources for TE
Aggregated Metadata and Contents. Quality criteria. IPR.
Share.TEC is dedicated to the TE field in Europe, and portrays digital content aimed at all levels of teacher education including Initial Teacher Education (ITE), induction into the profession and careerlong Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Through Share.TEC, users can access highly relevant, understandable descriptions of digital resources that specifically address the teacher education field, together with links to those resources. The Share.TEC project already brings together a critical mass of proven TE contents provided by its partners (about 70.000 records). This include, among others, lessons plans, teaching modules, best practices, reference materials. All materials are available as texts, multimedia presentations, videos, audio recordings - media of all kinds. The Share.TEC collections will be incremented by resources from other TE institutions, publishers and content providers, and from individual TE practitioners, including both open access and commercial content. Technically speaking, the content items themselves remain in their home location, be it the university TE repository, YouTube, Slide Share, Merlot, etc., while the Share.TEC system manages the special descriptions and links. To be considered as appropriate for description in Share.TEC, assets need to be: (a) TE-specific, i.e. designed for or used in a TE context;(b) TE-relevant, i.e. potentially usable for TE purposes. All metadata stored in the Share.TEC is subject to co-ownership rights held by the Share.TEC consortium and by the individual who authored the metadata.

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End - Users
Practitioners in the Teacher Education field.

TEACHER EDUCATORS / TRAINERS The system aims to fulfill teacher educators needs to (a) access a large body of high-quality resources specifically for TE; (b) enhance their practice through access to transferable models of innovation; (c) develop their competencies through sharing of contents and best practices within a Teacher Education (TE) community; and (d) broaden professional/cultural horizons to the EU level. Share.TEC helps teacher educators at the individual and institutional level- to enhance both individual practice and also to foster a stronger European identity in the field and provide support for teacher educators mobility.

PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TEACHERS ENGAGED IN SELFDIRECTED LEARNIG Pre-service and practicing teachers engaged in self-guided learning can benefit from accessing this heterogeneous set of high-quality digital contents and sharing professional and learning experiences. As seekers of TE contents, practicing teachers can find Share.TEC a valuable support to access digital resources that are: (a) easy to find and TEnative; (b) relevant to TE; (c) trustworthy and road tested; (d) multimedia and innovative. As for Teacher Educators, Share.TEC offers pre- service and practicing teachers the opportunity to find resources relevant to update their competencies and to find good ideas and best practices developed by teachers elsewhere in other countries.

PUBLISHERS AND CONTENT PROVIDERS Although developed to specifically address Teacher educators needs, the Share.TEC system can also fit educational publishers needs for direct access to a wider market for digital content specifically for TE, and to a distributed system capable of delivering commercial contents and services to potential customers. The Share.TEC system also provides a TE-specific arena across Europe for showcasing digital products and services, and for testing their market potential, thus meeting content developers needs for opportunities to showcase their products.

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Users voices

To shed light on end user needs and boost user involvement, a number of user pilots were created in Share.TEC. These acted as springboards / catalysts for forming cross-border TE communities centered on specific domains of TE interest (e.g. educational technology, multicultural issues, language learning and social inclusion). The pilots were also considered as opportunities for participants to focus on collections of learning resources accessible through the Share.TEC portal, although this was not mandatory. Eight pilot projects were set up during the third project workshop in Bologna, addressing different aspects (e.g. create focused communities on the portal as contexts for re-using resources in small groups; analyze the use of social software and Web 2.0 tools services in teacher education). The user pilots had mixed results. A number of pilots generated activity around the Share.TEC portal, while others did not get far past the initial planning stages. Despite this, the idea of creating a number of cross-border pilots where end-users (teacher educators) work on a specific educational innovation of their choice appears valuable.

What advantages does Share.TEC offer you, e.g. when compared with Google?
More focused search; better descriptions Greater educational potential Advantage: More focused selection of materials Better selection criteria Deals more directly with educational issues and materials More filtering options than Google but far fewer results

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+ Impact and sustainability

Maximize project impact at all levels.
The Share.TEC project has built a portal allowing one stop access to Teacher Education (TE) resources and experience. Alongside this ambition, considerable effort has been devoted to positioning that portal within its natural landscape and laying the roots for continuity and for growth. At the conclusion of the three-year project period, Share.TEC remains the only focal point at European level for those seeking access to, retrieval of, and contribution to pedagogical materials for TE. As such, Share.TEC is having and will continue to have a major impact on the field by responding to needs, which continue to be felt and expressed within TE and in the education panorama generally. The strategy for maximizing project impact was underpinned by the endeavour to fully exploit the opportunities presented by all project activities involving contact with and engagement of target users and stakeholders. The Share.TEC network includes both communities emerging around the system and existing TE professional associations both at national and European level. These actors are important for propagating educational innovation based on digital resource sharing, as well as for the exploitation of the project results. Share.TEC sustainability relies primarily on offering relevant resources in a usable environment in order to continually increase the Share.TEC user base. Subscription sales and donations are the primary revenue sources envisaged. In addition, each current and future partner offers the benefit of marketing, maintaining, upgrading, monitoring, evaluating, and validating its own digital assets including the infrastructure housing the resources. Dissemination is an interdependent part of Share.TEC sustainability.

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Leveraging TE networks
Given the heterogeneity of the TE field in Europe, the strategy adopted in Share.TEC identified three key levels at which partners would leverage their existing networks, establish new contacts and disseminate Share.TEC objectives and results. These were: level 1 - professional networks; TE-related national and international networks level 2 - Higher Education (universities, professional schools and university departments) level 3 - working groups of teacher educators and teachers. In total, the Share.TEC project was presented at 60 national and international conferences, 48 local workshops have been held by project partners and 31 scientific papers were published. The Share.TEC system and correlated approaches were addressed in 9 university courses. Relationships were established with a wide variety of organizations and initiatives that are based in countries both inside and outside the partnership or are transnational.

Type of organisation / initiative Universities & HE institutions Public agencies, offices & educational services Educational associations & networks Projects & programmes Local school hubs Publishers Libraries Private companies Other associations Total

No. engaged 20 19 18 15 5 4 2 1 1 85

European: 16

SV: 18 LT: 1 IR: 7 UK: 2 FR: 1 SP: 2 NL: 4

CH: 1 IT: 26 BG: 4

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The Share.TEC events

International workshops and exhibit
Major dissemination events at European level were the three international Share.TEC workshops (held in Venice, Dublin and Bologna) and the Share.TEC exhibition, which took place at Online Educa, Berlin conference. First project workshop (Venice, IT) The Venice workshop was designed to engage international experts in the field, introducing them to the project and its ambitions regarding digital resources in the TE domain. The specific focus was on the models being developed for providing the Share.TEC system with semantic, linguistic/cultural and technical interoperability. Second project workshop (Dublin, IE) This event aimed to broaden dissemination efforts by engaging representatives from key user groups and potential stakeholders, including TE networks and European educational repositories. Their participation provided the basis for building closer ties with the TE community at large and also provided valuable input for the project on critical areas like future directions in educational repositories. Third project workshop (Bologna, IT) The Bologna workshop addressed both end-users and a core group of stakeholders. The workshop engaged participants in (a) investigation and testing of the pre-release version of the pilot system, (b) examination of its relations to TE needs, (c) launching of users pilot devoted to co-development and sharing of digital resources that could both provide a springboard for dissemination and an opportunity for international field testing. Share.TEC OEB exhibition (Berlin, DE) This exhibition at OEB enabled the project to reach out to the wide community of education and ICT professionals and practitioners attending this high-profile international event.

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International Boards
Advisory and End-Users board members.

Advisory Board members Peter BURNHILL EDINA, University of Edinburgh, UK Grainne CONOLE The Open University, UK Erik DUVAL Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE Conor GALVIN University College Dublin, IE Gregorio Rodrguez GOMEZ University of Cadiz, SP Monique GRANDBASTIEN Universit Henri Pointcar Nancy 1, FR Jan HYLN OECD - CERI, FR Pina LALLI Universit di Bologna, IT Vittorio MIDORO IFIP, IT Declan OSULLIVAN Trinity College Dublin, IE Gilbert PAQUETTE LICEF, Tl-universit, CA Maria Teresa PAZIENZA Universit di Roma Tor Vergata, IT Demetrios SAMPSON University of Piraeus (GR) Lampros K. STERGIOULAS Brunel University, UK

End-Users Board members Federico ZANNONI Department of Educational sciences, University of Bologna (IT) Linda GIANNINI University of Florence, LTE: Laboratorio Tecnologie dell'Educazione (IT) Carlo NATI University of Lazio, member of the Working Group for development of Scientific and Technological Knowledge of the Italian Ministry of Education (IT) Cristina ODDONE University of Genoa, Faculty of Foreign Languages (IT) Miroslava CERNOCHOVA ATEE-Association for Teacher Education in Europe (CZ) Mimi HARALANOVA National High School of Mathematics and Science, Teacher (BG) Elitsa PELTEKOVA University of Sofia, University Computer Centre (BG) Silviya KANTCHEVA Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, General Teacher Education (BG) Nikolina NIKOLOVA University of Sofia, Teacher Education (BG) Reneta BOZHANKOVA Sofia University, Faculty of Slavic Studies (BG) Adriaan SINKE Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (NL) Roelina WIERDA NHL Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden (NL) Ronald BARENDSEN NHL Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden (NL) Ulla WIDMARK Stockholm University, Department of Didactic Science (SU) Theresa DOYLE Trinity College Dublin, School of Computer Science & Statistics (IE) Cristiano CHIUSSO University Ca' Foscari of Venice. CIRDFA (IT) Sandra ROSI Upper Secondary School, Teacher (IT)

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Summary of activities

The main activities undertaken in Share.TEC included collaborative efforts and interdependent processes that unfolded through the project lifetime as the consortium pursued its objectives and generated its outcomes.

Models definition and User requirements This activity was dedicated to defining the components that together comprise the semantic layer of the Share.TEC system, namely the Teacher Education Ontology (TEO), the Common Metadata Model (CMM) and its multicultural extension, the Multicultural Metadata Model (MMM). The models definition involved a number of phases and parallel tasks strictly interconnected. In order to bring end-users perspective into the Share.TEC system, a number of detailed, comprehensive use scenarios and cases were developed and validated to ensure that Share.TEC suitably responds to end-user requirements.

Tools and Portal Services development and Repository population The portal provides the digital environment necessary for the integration of metadata resources and for accessing user-centred services. Its implementation involved an iterative process derived from engineering (i.e. prototype, pilot and release versions). System expansion tools MMF and RICK were designed and developed respectively for metadata migration and metadata generation /enrichment. Other significant enhancements included advanced recommending services and adaptability features, and the help system. In order to support metadata population, a CMM user guide was also developed to provide high quality and consistent indexing. Metadata analysis tools were implemented to monitoring and evaluate the quality of ingested metadata. System validation and Project evaluation The validation mechanism in Share.TEC covered a range of project outputs, including the initial use cases, usability of the system portal (prototype and pilot versions), RICK tools, as well as monitoring of system performance and metadata record consistency. Several validation iteration cycles were performed by each partner with end-users or experts. A common procedure and tools were defined and adopted by partners during validation sessions. The output from testing activities were analysed and informed the system development. In order to assess the impact of Share.TEC on its targeted application areas during its lifetime, an expert was appointed to act as external evaluator to the consortium. Dissemination and Sustainability The Share.TEC consortium defined a detail dissemination plan throughout the
Dutch 6%
English 7%

Aggregated resources - Partners' language distribution

Other 10% Bulgarian 3%

duration of the project. The cornerstones of this plan at European level were the three international Share.TEC workshops (held in Venice, Dublin and Bologna) and the Share.TEC exhibition at Online Educa Berlin event (Dec 2010). Major dissemination events were held at national level targeting user groups and stakeholders in partner countries. Additionally, a set of pilots was established involving practitioner groups at TE institutions located in different European

Swedish 14%

Spanish 4%
Italian 56%

countries. The development of the sustainability plan was an on-going process unfolding throughout the lifetime of the project. The final plan defines partners roles and stakes in Share.TEC after the end of the co-funding period.

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The Share.TEC Consortium

Share.TEC brings together leading European institutions in the field of Teacher Education (TE), with backgrounds in the fields of humanities, social sciences and computer sciences. The project consortium consists of eight partners from six countries, aggregating substantial collections of resources for Teacher Education (TE).

Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genoa, Italy Part of Italys National Research Council, ITD deals with technology for innovation in teaching and learning processes within many fields, including TE. Role: Management (project coordinator), ontology and social filtering services (recommending). Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Rated by the EU as Irelands leading research institute, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) produces over 1900 publications annually. Role: Multicultural metadata model, metadata analyser and user guide, repository population. Universit C Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy The Interfaculty Centre of Educational Research and Advanced Training (CIRDFA) at University C Foscari supports scientific collaboration in teaching methodologies and vocational training. Role: Evaluation, adaptation features (metrics for resource-user matching) & user scenarios. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden The Learning Resource Centre at Stockholm University (SU) provides a variety of learning and research support services including access to various educational e-content repositories. Role: Awareness, dissemination and sustainability. CLUEB, Bologna, Italy CLUEB is a cooperative publisher associated to University of Bologna with a catalogue of 2,400 volumes, mostly monographs by university scholars. Role: Sustainability plan Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands OUNL is a leading academic institution whose Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies brings expertise in the fields of Learning Sciences and Technology Enhanced Learning. Role: Common Metadata Model, system specifications, activation of end-user networks Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain GSIC/EMIC is an interdisciplinary research group at the Universidad de Valladolid (UVa). Main research areas are e-learning, applications and technologies, practitioner support and CSCL. Role: Usability, system expansion facilities (RICK), query and brokerage services, use cases. Sofiyski Universitet, Sofia, Bulgaria The CIST Centre at Sofia University (NIS-SU) is an interdisciplinary research and training institution dealing with the development and widespread use of ICT. Role: System development & testing (prototype, pilot & release), services and user interface.

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Project Participants
Marion Grber, Robert Schuwer, Stefaan Ternier, Wim van der Vegt, Wim Westera. TCD (IE) Inmaculada Arnedillo-Snchez, Claire Brophy, Theresa Doyle, Ann Fitzgibbon, Anna-Marie Higgins, Charleen Hurtubise, Elisabeth Oldham, Brendan Tangney, Hendrik Thomas. SU (SE) Karin Alling, Erik Axdorph, Eeva Koroma Niklas Olaisson, Lena Olsson, Eeva Edman Stalbrant. UVa (SP) Juan Ignacio Asensio, Miguel Luis Bote Lorenzo, Beatriz Carramolino, Yannis Dimitriadis, Tamara Gonzales Cubero, Bartolom Rubia, Mara Jess Rodrguez Triana, Guillermo Vega Gorgojo. External Evaluator Claire Belisle, CNRS, France.

CIRDFA, University C Foscari of Venice (IT) Monica Banzato, Gianluigi Bodi, Umberto Margiotta, Fiorino Tessaro, Paolo Tosato. CLUEB (IT) Frida Bartolini, Giulia Capai, Domenico Corcione, Michele Cristofori, Gabriele Galli, Cristina Gaspodini, Silvia Grandi, Luigi Guardigli, Jennifer Monroe, Giada Nencetti, Simona Salustri. CNR, ITD (IT) coordinator Serena Alvino, Stefania Bocconi, Giovanni Caruso, Jeffrey Earp, Giovanni Fulantelli, Vittorio Midoro, Giorgio Olimpo, Donatella Persico. NIS-SU, Sofiyski Universitet (BG) Pavel Boytchev, Atanas Georgiev, Alexander Grigorov, Eugenia Kovatcheva, Nikolina Nikolova, Elitsa Peltekova, Eliza Stefanova, Krassen Stefanov. OUNL (NL) Fred de Vries, John van der Baaren,

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credits
This document reflects the work done in the Share.TEC project by all members of the Consortium. Authors Stefania Bocconi, Jeffrey Earp, Luigi Sarti, ITD-CNR Contributing Authors CIRDFA, CLUEB, NIS-SU, OUNL, TCD, UVa, SU staff members Printed in Genoa, Italy, by CNR- Institute for Educational Technology in June 2011.
The full version of the Final Report is available on the project Web Site http://www.share-tec.eu

This project is co-founded by European Commission under the eContentplus Programme. The content of this report does not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the European Commission. Responsibility for the information and views expressed in the therein lies entirely with the authors.

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Contacts
The Share.TEC Consortium Portal: http://portal.share-tec.eu Web site: http://www.share-tec.eu

To become a member, please contact sharetec@itd.cnr.it

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