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Modern Information Society Formation. 30 May - 3 June, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia 1

Towards a UNESCO Chair on ICT in Library Studies,

Education and Cultural Heritage

Roumen NikolovState University of Library Studies and IT

(SULSIT)Sofia, Bulgaria


ContentBulgaria, Sofia; State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT); Towards a UNESCO Chair;Background; Education, Research, Development and Innovation;Some Chair Activities and Events


Bulgaria, Sofia


Bulgaria – A Unique Place of Historical and Cultural Heritage


Bulgaria – Modern and Ancient

Folk Dance

Modern Information Society Formation. 30 May - 3 June, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia


Sofia and SUSLSIT


State University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (SULSIT)


SULSIT SULSIT is a unique research

and educational interdisciplinary center in Bulgarian context integrating studies in the fields of Library Studies, Information Technologies, Cultural and Historical Heritage.


Organizational StructureA basic structural unit of SULSIT is the Faculty of Bibliographic Studies, Information Systems and Public Communications, which comprises seven departments: Library and Information Sciences, Library Management, Book and Society, Cultural and Historical Heritage, Information Technologies, Communications and Security and Computer Science. Eight BSc specialties and 14 MSc programs. Department of Comprehensive Studies with the Foreign Languages Centre. A new structure will be adopted at SULSIT this year, which will include Faculty of Library Science and Cultural Heritage and Faculty of Information Science, according to the decision of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency from March 2011A decision for establishment of a UNESCO Chair – taken by the AC in February, 2011


SULSIT service units Library and Information Centre with the Centre for Career Orientation and Students’ development; Centre for Distance Learning;Centre for Continuing Education; Postgraduate Qualification Centre in the Field of Cultural and Historical Heritage; Centre for Cultural Memory; Centre for Security and Protection of Information; the Scientific Research Laboratory for Cyber Security; Computer Laboratory John Atanasoff; Research Institute in the field of Cultural and Historical Heritage Organization, Management and Protection; Institute for PhD Students Training (the PhD School); Publishing House Za Bukvite – O Pismeneh; Sports Complex. Two museum collections – Spirituality and Leadership and Contemporary Bulgarian Spirit.


UNESCO Interfaculty Chair“ICT in Library Studies,

Education and Cultural Heritage”

(Under Consideration)


Partners in BulgariaAssociation of the University Libraries in Bulgaria;Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; University Computing Centre, Sofia University; Union of Chitalishta (Municipality Cultural Centres);National Library “St. St. Cyril and Methodius”;National Museum of History in Bulgaria;National Institute of Archeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science;Open for cooperation


Partners AbroadUNESCO Chair “Innovative and Information Technologies in Higher Professional Education”, The All Russian State Tax Academy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow; UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning, University of Tampere, Finland; Chaire UNESCO en matière d'applications des technologies de l'information à l'éducation, e-learning, Université Oberta de Catalogne, Barcelone, Spain; UNESCO Chair on Distance Education in Engineering, SUAIOpen for cooperation


BACKGROUND


International Research Program “Children in the Information Age”, 1985-1989

Joint activities of Bulgaia and UNESCOSupported by Bulgarian Government, IFIP, IIASA, International Foundation “Lyudmila Zhivkova”, United Nations University, etc.International Conference “Children in the Information Age: Tomorrow’s Problems Today”, 1985; 350 participants from 40 countries; Second International Conference “Children in the Information Age: Opportunities for Creativity, Innovation and New Information Technologies”, 1987Third International Conference “Children in the Information Age: Human Development and Emerging Technologies”, 1989Exhibitions; Cooperation with Soviet Union, Missions in Syria and Egipt, Cooperation with MIT, large network of partners


Information Technology in Education and Children (ITEC) Project

Joint effort of UNESCO, Bulgaria and other 19 countries;

Followed the recommendations of the participants in the International Conference “Children in the Information Age: Tomorrow’s Problems Today”, Start – in Sofia, May, 1988;


XXI International Olympiad in Informatics

Bulgaria hosted the First International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) - an annual CS competition for secondary school students (Pravetz, Bulgaria,1987); Bulgaria hosted the XXI International Olympiad in Informatics, Plovdiv, 8-15th August, 2009.


Education, Research, Development and InnovationThe UNESCO Chair Team members have been involved in many projects in the field of operation during 1995-2011:Over 60 EC Framework Projects;Over 40 EC Lifelong learning Projects;Over 30 National Projects;Over 20 other projects (World Bank, Phare, Structural Funds, UNESCO);Cisco Network Academy, Microsoft Academy, HP, Oracle…MSc “Educational and Training Systems Design” (branch of a MSc at University of Twente, the Netherlands);MSc in e-Learning, MSc in Digitalization and e-Libraries, Teacher Training

Our ambition is to bring our expertise to the UNESCO Chair network and to substantially increase the number of the UNESCO projects…


FP6 Project TENCompetence - a European Network for Lifelong Competence Development


Kaleidoscope – A FP6 Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning

Open Digital Educational Resources

Ontologiespedagogical characteristicsclassification of the resources

Education oriented to the individual needs specific competences

Abilities to understand different languages and culturessearch for, analyse and reuse information



Share.TEC: Sharing Digital Resources in theTeaching Education Community

04/21/23

Share.TEC ontology - TEO

Multicultural ontology

Culture A Culture B



Adaptability architecture of Share.TEC

04/21/23

OpenScout:Skill-based Scouting of Open Management Content


http://www.openscout.net/


OpenScout

Federated Content BaseFederated Content Base

Integrated LCMS

• LCMS a• …• LCMS n • Mash Up a• …• Mash Up n

Integrated LCMS

• LCMS a• …• LCMS n • Mash Up a• …• Mash Up n

Service Web

• Reports• Guidelines• Web Site• Articles• Feeds• News

Service Web

• Reports• Guidelines• Web Site• Articles• Feeds• News

Tool Library

• Competency Search & Access• Authoring• Social Tagging• Integration• Community Communication• Mash Up

Tool Library

• Competency Search & Access• Authoring• Social Tagging• Integration• Community Communication• Mash Up

Service Library

• Search• Retrieve• Validate• (Re-)Author• Adapt• Metadata• Publish• Share

Service Library

• Search• Retrieve• Validate• (Re-)Author• Adapt• Metadata• Publish• Share

Repository a Repository … Repository n

User Community (Large Scale)

User Community (Early Adopters)


TT

PortalePortaleSocial NetworkSocial

Network

OpenScoutPortal

OpenScoutPortal

Search

SS

SFederation PortalePortale

PortalePortaleContent RepositoriesContent

Repositories

Social Metadata

SSCompetence

SS

Usage Data

SS

Ranking

SS

Recommendation

SS

PortalePortaleCommunity Platform

Community PlatformPortalePortalePersonalized

PortalPersonalized

Portal

PortalePortalePortalePortale

LCMSLCMS

TTools

OpenScoutServices & Tools

S TOpenScoutServices

OpenScoutTools

S S

S S S

S

S

T

TS S S

ExternalT & S

S S

OpenScout: Services & Tools for Connection

SUsermanagement

28© OpenScout Consortium, September 2010

ATLAS – a Multilingual Knowledge Management System

http://www.atlasproject.eu/ Modern Information Society Formation. 30 May - 3 June, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia

OpenAIRE: Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

http://www.openaire.eu/bg.html Modern Information Society Formation. 30 May - 3 June, 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia


Serious Games and Virtual Worlds

http://www.intels.biz/; http://www.yentels.com/;


PRIME Serious Game (FP6)


PRIME Development Methodology


TARGET Project: Transformative, Adaptive,

Responsive and enGaging EnvironmenT

http://www.reachyourtarget.org/


Mock-up of the TARGET Competence Performance Analyzer


THE PROJECTTHE PROJECT

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2013201120102009 2012

Proposals for regulation amendments

Training and consulting

Analyses, surveys and research

Methodologies, competence models and assessments

Establishment of a Bulgarian Competence Assessment Network by Sectors and Regions (BUCAN)

Development of a Competence Assessment System (CASSY)

ProjectProject No BG051PO001-2.1.06No BG051PO001-2.1.06““Development of Workforce Competence Assessment SystemDevelopment of Workforce Competence Assessment System

by Sectors and Regionsby Sectors and Regions””


ActivityActivity

Analyses, surveys

and research

Analyses, surveys

and research

20 sectors

CASSY users

TrainingTraining

Branch Associations (BA)

Regional Associations (RA)

10 regions

30 referents

20 sector skills committees

10 competence assessment

centers

Competence Assessment

Network

Competence Assessment

Network

ITIT



Competence Assessment SystemCompetence Assessment System

400 assessors

200 leading assessors

1000 Consultations

625 Trainings on the workplace

2500 Trainings in key competences

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10

20

11

20

12

20

13

20

10

20

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20

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20

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Defining selection criteria

BIA

BULGARIAN COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT NETWORKBULGARIAN COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT NETWORK


eProfessional eProfessionals collaboration

scenario example

ProfessionalVirtual

Communities

ProfessionalVirtual

Communities

eGroup 1

eGroup 2

Weakly structured workflowsCreative Ideas &

Content DevelopmentCreative Ideas &

Content Development

eProfessional• Employed or independent professional

• Works in several projects, often mobile

• Relies on IT for collaboration

GroupFormingNetworks

GroupFormingNetworks

eGroup 3

Sharing knowledge and activities

Discovering collaborationopportunities

Discovering collaborationopportunities

eGroup 1


UNESCO Chair Activities and Events

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Some activities25 February 2011, Rome. Exhibition of the SULSIT’s Ciryl and Methodius Newspaper, named Za Bukvite - O Pismeneh in the Church of Ss. Vincent and Anastasius, Rome, joint initiative between SULSIT and Bulgarian Orthodox Church Community St. St. Ciryl and Methodius in Rome;10-11 March 2011, Sofia. International Conference “Information and Communication technologies for Lifelong Learning”. SULSIT is a partner in the EU project ICT Action Plan for National Lifelong Learning, Transversal programs.


Some activities (cont.)14-16 June 2011, Sofia. Preparation and organization together with Teacher Policy and Development Section of UNESCO of a Sub-regional Experts' Workshop "Re-designing Institutional Policies and Practices to Enhance the Quality of Education through Innovative Use of Technologies" (14-16 June 2011, Sofia) - http://qed.unibit.bg/1-3 September 2011, Bourgas. Organization, in cooperation with Sofia University, Bourgas Free University and other partners, of the International Conference Software, Services and Semantic Technologies - http://s3t.uni-sofia.bg/.


Other Events3-4 September 2011, Bourgas. Organization, in cooperation with the Association of university libraries (NGO, Bulgaria), Bourgas Free University and other partners, of the International Conference Library and Cultural Management and ICT.2nd September 2011, Bourgas.Workshop/mini-conference Children in the Knowledge Society – initiative to restore the Conference Children in the Information Society (1984-1989).


9th European Day of the Entrepreneur, September 2011


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