Date

2011-05-06

Lecturer

Ismail Ali Gago (ITE-Cedec)

(The speaker could not attend the event due to causes beyond his responsibility. Diego Ruiz Hernandez, his partner at the ITE-Cedec, held the presentation.)

Summary

The Institute of Educational Technology of the Ministry of Education is the department responsible for curriculum integration of Information and Communication Technologies in primary and secondary schools. This Institution works in three distinct areas: the development of digital educational content, on-line teacher training, including the development and implementation of training materials and e-learning platforms and the development of digital tools and applications that can be used in schools. It is actively involved in the repository of digital educational materias and contents called Agrega, in the design and implementation of training courses for teachers using an open source LMS like Moodle, and developing and implementing improvements to this LMS. Training courses and training content are released under Creative Commons licenses, and finally it is working in the improvement of applications for content creation, as eXe Learning, in the integration of digital whiteboard and videoconference systems like OpenMeetings, and developing streaming system based entirely on open source software. During this presentation we will show some of these developments.

Slides

Author's Biography

Ismail Alí Gago

Graduate in Biology at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM) in 1978. Master in Computer Education at National University of Distance Education (UNED) in 1995. Secondary School Teacher in Biology and Geology and Information and Communication Technology. Technical and pedagogical advisor in the Area of Information and Communication Technologies at the Education Departmen of the Community of Madrid and Coordinator of the MAX development group between 2002 and 2009. He also has worked as Associate Professor of New Technologies Applied to Education in the Teacher Training Faculty at the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid. Participant and contributor to the AECI, Spanish Agency for Cooperation and Development in projects in Africa and Latin America. He currently works as Head of On-line Teacher Training Area and Web Content at the Institute of Educational Technology of the Ministry of Education and Member of the Governing Board of the National Curriculum Development Centre in Non Proprietary Systems, CeDeC.