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home > Media services > News > LIFE project surveys teachers’ access to learning resources LIFE project surveys teachers’ access to learning resources A recent LIFE survey found that only 30% of surveyed learning resources repositories in Europe contain resources matching national or local curriculum requirements. The LIFE surveys attempts to study the way teachers access and search digital learning resources. To complement this survey, Insight has launched a poll to find out if teachers look for learning resources that match the curriculum provided by or if they have other search criteria. European teachers have access to digital learning resources through educational repositories and portals. Many times it is the national or regional educational authorities who make them available to help teachers in their everyday work, and eventually also in incorporating ICTs into teaching practices. But can a teacher search for learning resources that match to the requirements of a given activity or skills area in curriculum? Currently, on nine K-12 educational portals teachers can conduct searches to find digital educational material that has indications of its curriculum coverage. For example, using Curriculum Online in England a teacher can browse the collection starting from Mathematics and choose a key stage, i.e. an educational level that indicates goals and activities required as part of the national curriculum. Similarly in Iceland a service called “The Educational Gateway” allows teachers to search if any educational resources have been linked to a particular section of the curriculum. In Denmark, on "Materialeplatformen" teachers can find explicit information that includes reference to specified learning goals of the ‘common goals’ of the national curriculum. In some cases, educational resources are offered in a specific area of curriculum, like in the case of French "Brevet Informatique et Internet (B2i)", a certificate that ensures the sufficient skills needed for the use of information technologies and Internet in France. On "Répertoire de scénarios pédagogiques” (index of pedagogical scenarios), a teacher can find a scenario with learning resources and activities that relate to goals stated in B2i. On the other hand, majority of educational resources in Europe are accessible by indicating the school level and the subject area that the teacher is interested in. 14 out of 29 surveyed educational repositories have this type of information available, and teachers can conduct searches based on the year level and subject area, which in some cases is even split into sub-areas. Find more information about these in the report "Can European teachers find curriculum related digital learning resources?" at http://wiki.eun.org/life-wiki/ A quick poll is available at the Insight to find out for what reason teachers look for learning resources. Vote here, just one click! The report "Can European teachers find curriculum related digital learning resources?" is open for additions and editing from people who have more information about this area and who are interested to fill it in to this report. The report is placed on a WIKI which allows anyone to log-in and add their contributions to the report. Through this way of working, the team wishes to leverage on the community knowledge to fill in the "white spots" on the map of curriculum related resources.
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