Educational institutions form the project’s most important target group. The archived content has to find its way to classrooms and college halls in ways we can hardly imagine at present. By using the digitized heritage material as a basis for developing electronic learning environments, an enormous surplus value arises for the learning Netherlands. Images for the Future will provide access to the content for existing services, such as Teleblik and Academia, but will also develop its own novel services.
In 2007, the Education Media Platform (OMP) took centre stage in developing services for educational purposes. The consortium parties started developing a multi-medial educational platform in conjunction with the platform to disclose and contextualize the collections of the participating institutions.
The OMP provided with design applications for teachers and students so it can substitute learning books as a teaching tool in different specialties. The end result could be: all schools having an OMP at their disposition and that it can be tuned to their individual wishes.
As a starting point, the Education Media Platform views the whole as being larger than the sum of its parts. Cross references between sources, (inter)activity, and communication between users all play an important role. The consortium parties are currently working on setting up a pilot for several tens of schools. This pilot will be carried out in close cooperation with various suppliers of Electronic Learning Environments (ELO’s) like Edutude, with Kennisnet, and with content providers such as Naturalis and Kennislink. Technical partner for online video is Noterik.
ED*IT
During the NOT 2009 the new online education platform ED*IT was launched by the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, one of the makers of Teleblik. ED*IT offers a wealth of material from museums and archives. Online users can turn this material into papers, presentations and digital lessons. They can also add their own content to it. Consequently, online education will be made fun and easy in a useful manner.
For more information about ED*IT, contact project leader Tom Brink (Sound and Vision).
