Reasons for edu-sharing - a summary
As a cloud-based, modular e-learning solution, edu-sharing supports you in digitizing your education.
Why you should implement edu-sharing:
- As an educational institution, do you support your teaching staff with a classical learning management system (LMS) and would like to offer your users more possibilities?
- Your LMS is primarily used for distributing and collecting material - additional featured are hardly used?
- Your teachers want more advanced functionality and turn to specialized tools on the Internet (Dropbox, Google Calendar, Google Docs & Spreadsheet, WhatsApp)?
- Learning content, media, personal data, etc. Information is distributed across a wide range of systems, making it difficult to find and reuse it - you currently have no solution for the systematic management of content?
- Educational templates and other knowledge transfer options are hard to implement in your current e-learning infrastructure?
- Would you like to promote communication, exchange, reuse of content and innovation?
These are the benefits of the cloud-based edu-sharing e-learning solution:
Your teachers can continue to work with their learning platform and other applications they are ussed to, but the content is managed centrally (in an education-optimized cloud storage).
A central content management creates an overview, promotes & supports collaboration and enables the systematic innovation of your learning content. You help increase quality, efficiency and motivation.
Content is managed in a specialized system and can be used without media discontinuity in all connected learning platforms such as Moodle et al. Systems.
Your users don't have to worry about metadata or storage systems.
- Metadata services generate or inherit metadata and generate a full-text index for the powerful search function.
- Edu-sharing can automatically create predefined folders, rights, and metadata templates when instancing new schools / new chairs.
- Content can easily be uploaded during educational work in any connected system (e.g., learning platform). The uploaded content is forwarded from the edu sharing plugin to the central content storage.
- Content, courses and other data that remains in your LMS or other connected systems can be searched using a connected edu-sharing search engine.
Your users do not need to worry about media formats and their presentation in the web browser or on devices. Conversions are is no longer necessary.
- The edu-sharing playback service (rendering) transcodes formats for all common devices and browsers.
- This service can be expanded my adding new modules. You can add playback modules for special formats (for example, medicine, geography).
- You can use the rendering service for archiving purposes (long-term storage & playback).
Edu sharing makes it easy for you to access external content sources and provide your content to third parties:
- Through interfaces and import functions, you can open up learning content sources for your users (existing file folders, libraries, YouTube, Wikipedia, educational servers).
- In the same way, you can provide your content for partners, libraries, national education servers, and OER repositories or referatories.
Solutions for Open Educational Resources (OER) inside:
- Your users can publish selected learning contents in edu-sharing under a free license (for example Creative Commons Licenses).
- You can offer the OER of your organization on a public website, for example with a public search & browse function (see: ZOERR or OER-Berlin)
Defined editorial workflows support the publication of content.
Give didactic support by offering templates and promote individual diversity:
- Your pedagogical advisory team can provide document and course templates for reuse.
- The templates can be offered like in an app store or a collection structured according to learning scenarios or target groups.
- Moodle courses can be preconfigured for specific learning scenarios and saved as templates. A course created after this template is created in the home Moodle system when instanced by a user.
mobile & modern solutions - created in a Community.
- Mobile 1st became the edu-sharing development principle in 2015. The community defined the requirements for the new educational app that was subsequently developed and is currently being tested.
- Once a year, a product strategy and road planning project takes place, after all the user requests of the last year have been processed. The community and user representatives have the majority in voting rights for roadmap packages.