Webinar: Teachers’ use of IMS Common Cartridge, 13 July 2010

This webinar will present the results of the ASPECT Summer School and explain why Common Cartridge seem particularly well-suited to address teachers’ needs. The webinar speakers are Dr. Àgueda Gras-Velázquez (European Schoolnet) and Kati Clements (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The webinar takes place on 13 July 2010, 10AM EDT (4PM CET).

During a Summer School organized by the ASPECT project, 40 mathematics and science teachers from Portugal, Lithuania, Romania and Portugal were asked to work with different content packaging standards. The teachers were very enthusiastic about Common Cartridge content packaging. After importing a CC package into Moodle, the teachers could remove parts that they did not need, edit the content and change the order of different resources. Many teachers requested instructions on how to adapt Moodle to use Common Cartridge packages and some teachers expressed an interest in using Common Cartridge to package their own content in order to share it with other teachers.

Before the Lisbon workshop, Agueda Gras-Velazquez, who organized the event, had anticipated that some teachers might be enthusiastic about Common Cartridge. However, while she thought teachers would appreciate the possibility of importing a cartridge into Moodle and then moving and/or changing some parts of the resource, she was unprepared for the high level of positive reaction that was witnessed. More information on the ASPECT Summer School

This webinar will present the results of the ASPECT Summer School and explain why common cartridge seem particularly well-suited to address teachers’ needs.

The webinar is organised by the IMS Global Learning Consortium.

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