Achievements and Problems in the In-service Teacher Education in Inquiry Based Style

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2015

Цифровите библиотеки в обучението на учители

Krassen Stefanov, Pavel Boytchev, Eliza Stefanova, Atanas Georgiev, Nikolina Nikolova, Alexander Grigorov - This paper discusses the role of the contemporary European digital libraries in teachers education. It presents a digital repository of metadata resources for teachers education, as well as a portal for the community of practices, build around the repository. Both the repository and the community are developed in the frame of the European project Share.TEC. The paper describes teachers’ and teachers educators’ expectations from the system. In addition, the adaptability model, on which the system is based on, and its realization in the portal are presented.

Digital Libraries as a Social Media

This paper presents an innovative approach for enhancing digital libraries functionalities. An innovative distributed architecture involving digital libraries for effective and efficient knowledge sharing was developed. In the frame of this architecture semantic services were implemented, offering multi language and multi culture support, adaptability and knowledge resources recommendation, based on the use of ontologies, metadata and user modeling. New methods for teacher education using digital libraries and knowledge sharing were developed. These new methods were successfully applied in more than 15 pilot experiments in seven European countries, with more than 3000 teachers trained.

How to Elaborate a Demonstrator in Inspiring Science Education Platform

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2016