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Topic Maps is concerned with capturing information and knowledge and making it easier to share and reuse. It is therefore of great use in education and has already been applied in a number of interesting ways, in Norway and elsewhere. This presentation discusses some of the many applications of Topic Maps in the educational sector. The main focus of the presentation is on Grep ("Grip") a major national project in Norway whose goal is to make the complete National Curriculum for children aged 6-19 widely and easily available in a form that offers many new and exciting possibilities. The presentation will discuss the background for the project, why Topic Maps was chosen as the underlying technology, and how it is currently being used. It will show how the curriculum is structured as a topic map, and how it can be used by pupils, teachers, providers of learning materials (including publishers and broadcasting companies), vendors of Learning Management Systems, and others involved in education to provide a richer and more interesting learning environment.
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13 April 2023Are Mjølsnes ( 間岬 イーグル ), Adviser, IT-department Email: [email protected]
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Are Mjølsnes• Firstname: Are
– ”Eagle” / イーグル
• Surname: Mjølsnes
– ”Between Capes” / 間岬 – ”Between Peninsulas”/ 間半島 – ”Center Cape” / センター 岬
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Topic Maps in the Educational sector
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Education in Norway
• Kindergartens• Primary and Lower Secondary Education• Upper Secondary Education and Training• Tertiary Vocational Education• Higher Education• Education and Training for Adults
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Knowledge promotionStructure of subject curricula
• The objectives of the subject
• Main subject areas• Teaching hours• Basic skills• Competence objectives• Subject assessment
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Book or Digital?
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Subject category
Subject domain
Training subject
Set of Competency Aims
Axis 3: Subject axisAxis 2: LevelAxis 1: Offer Structure(Upper Secondary Education
and Training (USE&T))
Education Programmes (12)
General Studies (3)Vocational subjects (9)
Program domain
Competence aimMain domain(for vocational:
Describe program subject)
Subject Curriculum
Level (year)
Text for basic skills (5)
Describe homogenous and
inhomogenous electrical fields using Colombs
law.
Classical phsysics
Physics 2
Natural Sciences USE&T3
Specialization in General
Studies
USE&T3
Physics
Natural Science
and Mathematic
s
Curriculum in phsysics program subject
The pedagogical part of the Grep Ontology
Axis 4: Subject Curriculum
Entity (Topics inThe Topic Maps model)
Not all entities haveThis relation
Legends
Example
Educational level
USE&T
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InternalUsers
External users
Registration
Changes
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Grep on The Directorate’s website
Upper Secondary School, Vocational Education
Upper Secondary
School, General Studies
National Curricula: Primary and
Lower Secondary School
National Curricula:Primary, Lower and Upper
Secondary School
The Sami Curricula
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Searching across curriculula
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Basic skills
Math skills
Norwegian
Natural science
Chr/Rel/Ethics
English
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Teaching hours
Provisions and regulations for
examination and assessment
Administrative purposes
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Grep on www.skolenettet.no
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Comeptence objective as link
Collection of suggested links and resources connected to
each objective
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Structured according to GREP
Related to GREP
Learning resources – for the pupil.
(links)
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Which competence objectives does this
source support?
Which basic skills does this source
support?
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The vision of seamless knowledge
• Starting with ITU in 2001, Norway has seen an explosion in the number of portals that are based on Topic Maps– Today there are dozens, especially in the public
section– As the number of portals multiplies, the amount of
overlap increases…– The potential for integration is … mind-blowing
• Take these three portals as an example:– forskning.no (Research Council web site aimed at
young adults)– forbrukerportalen.no (Norwegian Consumer
Association)– matportalen.no (Biosecurity portal of the
Department of Agriculture)
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Genetically modified food at forskning.no
”Genetically modified food”
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Genetically modified food at Forbukerrådet
•Terefe Badenod
”Genetically modified food”
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Genetically modified foodstuffs at Matportalen
”Genetically modified groceries”
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Three portals – one subject
one “virtual portal”with seamless navigation in all directions
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Now
On it’s
way
Later…
Subscribe and saveGrep locally
Use identifiers from Grep on your own content
Give me all Competence Aims in Mathematichs…
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Finds the needlebefore you can spell
haystack
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What if… • it’s possible to hook on to Grep
resources without saving the whole thing locally
• and it’s possible to get resources from other mediators as well,without saving Grep locally
Grep
Norw. Schoolnet
Naturfag.no
Mediators
Producers
UN Association
Culture net
LMS
Consumers
RSS-reader
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The Directorate
Pupils
Schools and teachers
Providers of Learning Resoruces
Subjects
Main Subject Areas
Competence Aims
LocalCurricula
Resourcesfrom theNationalSchoolnet
Resourcesfromprivateactors
Resourcesfound ormade byteachers
Resourcesfound ormade bypupils
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Coming features of -----PSI (Ψ) Definitions ensures interoperability
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Scenario 1: An LMS subscribes recources from a numbers of mediators
Learning Recources
From The Shoolet:• HowStuffWorks• Programmet Newton• Science & Technology
From Naturforlaget:• Forsøk med molekylbindinger• Bohrs atommodell
Competence Aims after 10. grade
• Forskerspiren• Mangfold i naturen• Kropp og helse• Verdensrommet• Fenomener og stoffer• Teknolgi og design
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MEDIATOR
Scenario 2:Google it!
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MEDIATOR
Example: ”Link:”-query in Google…
link:http://psi.udir.no/LK06/matema
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Cooperating: A lots of initiatives
with customized interfaces
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…But are we just making heavier and more expensive ”siloes”?
Cooperate,anyone?
Format AScheme XProtocol M
Format C
Scheme Z
Protocol O
Format BScheme YProtocol N
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Cooperate?OK!
Websentric, semantic interoperabillity
in the education sector
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Playing with standards
13 April 2023 Are MjølsnesAdviser
The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training P.O. Box. 2924 ToyenN - 0608 OSLONORWAYPhone: + 47 23 30 12 00Fax: + 47 23 30 12 99E-mail: [email protected]
My e-mail: [email protected]
www.udir.no/grep
