NEWS – ANNOUNCEMENTS
DIGITAL SCHOOL SERVICES IN A NUTSHELL
e-me DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM
e-me [Greek, official edition]
e-me for all [Greek, open edition]
e-me European [multilingual, open edition]
e-me (https://e-me.edu.gr) is a modern, collaborative, social, and extendable Digital Educational Platform for pupils and teachers. It was designed for the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (MoE), as a national asynchronous learning platform for all Greek schools, teachers and pupils, providing a safe digital collaborative workspace to support formal, non-formal and informal learning experiences.
e-me is a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) which supports:
- creation of private and public collaboration spaces (hives) by teachers and pupils,
- communication and social networking among pupils and teachers,
- organization, storage and exchange of files on the cloud,
- easy creation of digital interactive learning resources,
- assigning and monitoring of tasks,
- creation of e-portfolio for keeping selected personal achievements,
- display of work and results to the outside world via collaborative and personal blogs,
- use of open educational resources (OERs) from Photodentro digital repositories,
while it further provides a suite of digital “tools” to support teaching and learning.
e-me is available in two editions/installations in Greece: (a) the official e-me (e-me.edu.gr | login with GSN account) and (b) the e-me for all (4all.e-me.edu.gr). A multilingual European e-me (e-me4all.eu) is also available to support educational collaborations at European level.
e-me DIGITAL EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM
e-me [Greek, official edition]
e-me for all [Greek, open edition]
e-me European [multilingual, open edition]
e-me (https://e-me.edu.gr) is a modern, collaborative, social, and extendable Digital Educational Platform for pupils and teachers. It was designed for the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (MoE), as a national asynchronous learning platform for all Greek schools, teachers and pupils, providing a safe digital collaborative workspace to support formal, non-formal and informal learning experiences.
e-me is a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) which supports:
- creation of private and public collaboration spaces (hives) by teachers and pupils,
- communication and social networking among pupils and teachers,
- organization, storage and exchange of files on the cloud,
- easy creation of digital interactive learning resources,
- assigning and monitoring of tasks,
- creation of e-portfolio for keeping selected personal achievements,
- display of work and results to the outside world via collaborative and personal blogs,
- use of open educational resources (OERs) from Photodentro digital repositories,
while it further provides a suite of digital “tools” to support teaching and learning.
e-me is available in two editions/installations in Greece: (a) the official e-me (e-me.edu.gr | login with GSN account) and (b) the e-me for all (4all.e-me.edu.gr). A multilingual European e-me (e-me4all.eu) is also available to support educational collaborations at European level.
“INTERACTIVE TEXTBOOKS” DIGITAL LIBRARY
The “Interactive Textbooks” Digital Library (ebooks.edu.gr) is the official digital repository of the Greek Ministry of Education & Religion Affairs (MoE) for hosting and openly sharing to pupils, teachers, and anyone interested, all official textbooks for primary and secondary education, for all subjects, and in multiple digital formats. A large number of textbooks have been enriched with online, click and play interactive Open Educational Resources.
It has been developed as a modern, online digital library, providing advanced search and navigation features for textbooks and courses, in a variety of ways.
In the “Interactive Textbooks” Digital Library you can find:
- 800 Textbooks for Primary School, High School, and Vocational Senior High School (EPA.L) in digital pdf format.
- 164 Textbooks in open, editable html format, which resembles their printed form.
- More than 160 Interactive Textbooks: textbooks in html or pdf format, enriched with digital interactive learning objects.
- Search within the pages of the interactive textbooks for active icons that lead and open directly relevant simulations, experiments, exercises, educational games, videos, maps, visualizations, etc. hosted in various “Photodentro” Repositories.
- 120 textbooks with 18 to 38 point fonts for amblyopic students.
- 41 Student’s Textbooks in iBook format.
You can also find a list of all courses for Primary, Junior High School, General High School and EPA.L., with a full description page for each one and direct access to all associated Textbooks of the course, in all available digital formats, as well as to all relevant course Curriculum program (D.E.P.P.S. or A.P.S.).
You can also use the multiple filters of the Interactive Textbooks Digital Library to easily search and find Textbooks according to their educational level, grade, textbook type, category, or subject matter etc. You can even search by keywords within Textbooks body!
“Photodentro”
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE (OER) REPOSITORIES
Photodentro is the name of the Greek digital repository infrastructure for hosting, organizing, and providing open access to OERs for primary and secondary education.
The Photodentro ecosystem consists of seven (7) OER Repositories, each one serving a different purpose.
Photodentro Repositories with certified or curated content
Three (3) Photodentro repositories hosting certified or curated content, uploaded by authorized users.
Photodentro LOR (Learning Object Repository)
Photodentro LOR is the Greek National Learning Object Repository for primary and secondary education. It hosts open Learning Objects, i.e. self-contained and reusable units of learning, which are semantically and technically autonomous and can be integrated into educational activities to support teaching and learning.
Here you can find ~7,000 interactive simulations, visualizations, experiments, exercises, educational games, maps, images, audios, timelines, glossaries, etc., covering a wide range of disciplines and grades.
Photodentro VIDEO
Photodentro Video is the Greek National Repository of Educational Videos for primary and secondary education. It hosts short-length, curriculum-related educational videos, suitable for in class use, which are offered with open licenses and can be integrated into educational activities.
Here you can find 1,300 videos organized into collections, including ~1000 short length videos by the Greek Educational TV, documentary collections, as well as winning student videos in various contests.
Photodentro EDUSOFT
Photodentro EduSoft is the Greek National Repository of Educational Software for primary and secondary education. It hosts standalone educational software (i.e. educational multimedia titles, integrated packages of educational scenarios, educational software tools or environments), freely available to download.
Here you can find ~200 educational software products developed or localized with Greek National Funds since 1998, or other open and free educational software tools holding a quality seal.
Photodentro Repositories for User-Generated content
Four (4) Photodentro repositories where teachers, students or academics can upload and share their own learning resources.
Photodentro UGC (User Generated Content)
Photodentro UGC is the Greek National Repository of User Generated Content for primary and secondary education. It offers teachers a digital space to upload and share their own Open Educational Resources (OERs), while encouraging them to use, adapt and reuse, comment or rate resources by others, contributing thus to the development of the Greek professional social network of teachers for resource-based learning.
Here you can find ~1,800 OERs developed and shared by teachers, students or academics, including interactive exercises, educational scenarios, educational games, presentations, simulations, lesson plans, educational videos, etc.
Photodentro LS (Learning Scenarios) Repository & Learning Scenario Designer
Photodentro LS is the Greek National Repository of structured Learning Scenarios with didactive activities for primary and secondary education. It provides the Photodentro LS Designer tool for teachers and researchers, to design, author, host, publish and share Learning Scenarios with didactive activities, using online Templates for learning scenarios and following specific pedagogical guidelines and suggestions, as well as to search, adapt and reuse learning scenarios shared by others. It also supports the development of customizable LS Templates (Photodentro LS Template Designer).
In Photodentro LS repository you can find ~160 open Learning Scenarios created by teachers, as well as a Generic and 12 specialized Templates for Learning Scenarios, along with pedagogical guidelines and suggestions defined by scientific and pedagogical experts.
Photodentro OEP (Open Educational Practices)
Photodentro OEP is the Greek National Repository of Open Educational Practices for primary and secondary education. It aims at encouraging and motivating teachers to develop and share Open Educational Practices (OEPs), i.e. reusable teaching techniques that draw upon Open Educational Resources (OERs), have been implemented in a real educational setting, and are openly shared along with the related experiences and reflections.
Here you can find 187 Open Educational Practices recommended by teachers. All OEPs are freely available to everyone and are provided under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
Photodentro I-CREATE
Photodentro i-create is the Greek National Repository of student creations, operated by the Greek Educational TV (EduTV) to support creativity, exchange and production of ideas and promote school communities’ projects. It hosts videos, blogs, posters, and other audiovisual creations, developed by students and submitted through EduTV video contests or awareness-raising campaigns.
Here you can find ~900 student creations organized into collections.
PHOTODENTRO Greek National Aggregator of Educational Content
PHOTODENTRO is the Greek National Aggregator of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Primary and Secondary Education. It’s the Greek national service for harvesting and accumulating educational metadata from various repositories and collections (museums, libraries, audiovisual archives, etc.), thus serving as the central access point to Greek open learning resources for schools.
In PHOTODENTRO portal, at photodentro.edu.gr, you can search in a unified way and find Greek OERs for K-12 education, hosted either in “Photodentro” Repositories of the Ministry of Education, or in other, “external” repositories or educational portals. In other words, PHOTODENTRO provides a central “catalogue” of the Ministry of Education’s digital educational material for school education. It currently provides access to ~18.000 OERs, from 19 repositories and 23 content providers.
PHOTODENTRO promotes the use of OERs for schools. All digital resources available through PHOTODENTRO is freely available under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA or similar open licenses.
THEMATIC AGGREGATOR OF CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Photodentro Cultural
Photodentro Cultural is a thematic aggregator of Greek cultural educational resources targeting Primary and Secondary education. It provides unified access to thousands of selected digital resources of cultural collections, from various content providers including “Europeana” (europeana.eu), hosted in digital repositories of museums, libraries, or other institutions.
All digital resources of Photodentro Cultural have been enriched with descriptions, pedagogical metadata, and classifications for their educational use, to facilitate their constructive use in the educational process.
PHOTODENTRO microsites
PHOTODENTRO microsites are autonomous and thematically focused websites, aiming at providing various target audiences with easy access to relevant PHOTODENTRO’s Open Educational Resources (OERs).
A PHOTODENTRO microsite provides a “view” of a subset of PHOTODENTRO Aggregator’s resources relevant to its target audience. It has an easy-to-use, customized for its target audience GUI, offering ready-made queries to PHOTODENTRO portal, with predefined combinations of filters.
Two microsites are available:
MICROSITE
“Photodentro PRIMARY”
A PHOTODENTRO microsite for Primary school pupils and teachers.
It provides easy access to PHOTODENTRO Open Educational Resources targeting primary school pupils (aged 6-12).
MICROSITE
“Photodentro ENGLISH”
A PHOTODENTRO microsite for English language teachers, school counselors, and all those involved in the English language teaching.
It provides easy access to PHOTODENTRO Open Educational Resources for English language teaching.
PHOTODENTRO Greek National Aggregator of Educational Content
PHOTODENTRO is the Greek National Aggregator of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Primary and Secondary Education. It’s the Greek national service for harvesting and accumulating educational metadata from various repositories and collections (museums, libraries, audiovisual archives, etc.), thus serving as the central access point to Greek open learning resources for schools.
In PHOTODENTRO portal, at photodentro.edu.gr, you can search in a unified way and find Greek OERs for K-12 education, hosted either in “Photodentro” Repositories of the Ministry of Education, or in other, “external” repositories or educational portals. In other words, PHOTODENTRO provides a central “catalogue” of the Ministry of Education’s digital educational material for school education. It currently provides access to ~18.000 OERs, from 19 repositories and 23 content providers.
PHOTODENTRO promotes the use of OERs for schools. All digital resources available through PHOTODENTRO is freely available under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA or similar open licenses.
THEMATIC AGGREGATOR OF CULTURAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Photodentro Cultural
Photodentro Cultural is a thematic aggregator of Greek cultural educational resources targeting Primary and Secondary education. It provides unified access to thousands of selected digital resources of cultural collections, from various content providers including “Europeana” (europeana.eu), hosted in digital repositories of museums, libraries, or other institutions.
All digital resources of Photodentro Cultural have been enriched with descriptions, pedagogical metadata, and classifications for their educational use, to facilitate their constructive use in the educational process.
PHOTODENTRO microsites
PHOTODENTRO microsites are autonomous and thematically focused websites, aiming at providing various target audiences with easy access to relevant PHOTODENTRO’s Open Educational Resources (OERs).
A PHOTODENTRO microsite provides a “view” of a subset of PHOTODENTRO Aggregator’s resources relevant to its target audience. It has an easy-to-use, customized for its target audience GUI, offering ready-made queries to PHOTODENTRO portal, with predefined combinations of filters.
Two microsites are available:
MICROSITE
“Photodentro PRIMARY”
A PHOTODENTRO microsite for Primary school pupils and teachers.
It provides easy access to PHOTODENTRO Open Educational Resources targeting primary school pupils (aged 6-12).
MICROSITE
“Photodentro ENGLISH”
A PHOTODENTRO microsite for English language teachers, school counselors, and all those involved in the English language teaching.
It provides easy access to PHOTODENTRO Open Educational Resources for English language teaching.
ADDITIONAL DIGITAL SCHOOL SERVICES
Digital Educational Services OBSERVATORY
Greek online Observatory on the utilization of K-12 digital educational content and e-services
The “Digital Educational Services OBSERVATORY” is the first Greek public, open and online Observatory for the utilization of digital educational resources in Greek Primary and Secondary education.
Following the “OBSERVING – MEASURING – IMPROVING” approach, the OBSERVATORY aims at promoting the wider utilization of the available digital educational content for school and preschool education. The OBSERVATORY is an important tool of the Greek Ministry of Education for the scientific monitoring of information regarding the utilization of digital educational content and relevant online services by the educational and the academic community, as well as the general public.
In the OBSERVATORY you can find statistics on the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) hosted on “Photodentro” Digital Repositories, of digital textbooks hosted on the e-Books digital library, of digital OER collections accumulated on the PHOTODENTRO Greek National Aggregator, as well as on the utilization of the e-me Digital Educational Platform for pupils and teachers.
“Greek National Aggregation Service of Digital Educational Content
for Primary and Secondary Education”
“Photodentro Aggregation Service” is the Greek National Aggregation Service of Digital Educational Content for Primary and Secondary Education”. It is a modern service for harvesting, semantically integrating, and enriching the metadata of Open Educational Resources, accumulated from various digital repositories or collections and by various content providers, and further distributing these resources via the PHOTODENTRO central portal of OERs for Greek K-12 education (photodentro.edu.gr).
Photodentro Quality Seals
“Photodentro Quality Seals” supports and facilitates the Quality Assurance process of Open Educational Resources for Primary and Secondary Education. It hosts: (a) “Quality Seals” of Open Educational Resources, (b) “Quality Seal holders (Certifiers)” who own and award the Quality Seals, and (c) “Sealing (stamping)” of Open Educational Resources awarded with these quality seals.
Photodentro SaaS
The Photodentro SaaS service is based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model and provides modern digital educational repositories and repository-related services. It enables interested parties to acquire their own Photodentro-like digital repository of educational resources, tailored to their own needs, or to create and host their own digital collections on an existing “Photodentro” repository, thus providing a web-based service for organizing, documenting and distributing their content.
ADDITIONAL DIGITAL SCHOOL SERVICES
Digital Educational Services OBSERVATORY
Greek online Observatory on the utilization of K-12 digital educational content and e-services
The “Digital Educational Services OBSERVATORY” is the first Greek public, open and online Observatory for the utilization of digital educational resources in Greek Primary and Secondary education.
Following the “OBSERVING – MEASURING – IMPROVING” approach, the OBSERVATORY aims at promoting the wider utilization of the available digital educational content for school and preschool education. The OBSERVATORY is an important tool of the Greek Ministry of Education for the scientific monitoring of information regarding the utilization of digital educational content and relevant online services by the educational and the academic community, as well as the general public.
In the OBSERVATORY you can find statistics on the use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) hosted on “Photodentro” Digital Repositories, of digital textbooks hosted on the e-Books digital library, of digital OER collections accumulated on the PHOTODENTRO Greek National Aggregator, as well as on the utilization of the e-me Digital Educational Platform for pupils and teachers.
“Greek National Aggregation Service of Digital Educational Content
for Primary and Secondary Education”
“Photodentro Aggregation Service” is the Greek National Aggregation Service of Digital Educational Content for Primary and Secondary Education”. It is a modern service for harvesting, semantically integrating, and enriching the metadata of Open Educational Resources, accumulated from various digital repositories or collections and by various content providers, and further distributing these resources via the PHOTODENTRO central portal of OERs for Greek K-12 education (photodentro.edu.gr).
Photodentro Quality Seals
“Photodentro Quality Seals” supports and facilitates the Quality Assurance process of Open Educational Resources for Primary and Secondary Education. It hosts: (a) “Quality Seals” of Open Educational Resources, (b) “Quality Seal holders (Certifiers)” who own and award the Quality Seals, and (c) “Sealing (stamping)” of Open Educational Resources awarded with these quality seals.
Photodentro SaaS
The Photodentro SaaS service is based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model and provides modern digital educational repositories and repository-related services. It enables interested parties to acquire their own Photodentro-like digital repository of educational resources, tailored to their own needs, or to create and host their own digital collections on an existing “Photodentro” repository, thus providing a web-based service for organizing, documenting and distributing their content.
OTHER RELEVANT SERVICES
mooc.edu.gr platform for MOOCs
The mooc.edu.gr platform is the official online platform available by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs (MoE) for hosting and making available Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) to teachers of Primary and Secondary Education, as well as to anyone interested.
