Brief description of the project
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- Implementing partners Project starting date 23/04/2009 Project completion date 31/12/2013 Responsible Sector SC
- Description of project activities undertaken during the reporting period OCEANTEACHER SOFTWARE SYSTEM
- http://www.vimeo.com/iode
- All courses currently available in the OT Moodle Classroom were reviewed and catalogued in to 7 categories or ‘status level’
- Subsequent to this analysis, the following courses are available (for further details see also annex 3)
- It is noted that Dr Wouter Rommens left the IOC Project Office for IODE on 1 June 2010. He was replaced as IODE Training Coordinator by Dr Claudia Delgado as from 17 January 2011.
- Project Results achieved during the reporting period SEE II Lessons learned and Sustainability
- Evaluation recommendations when applicable n/a
- Capacity Building Regional Meeting for the Middle East North Africa meeting (19-21 April 2011)
- Annexes (publications, reports and other project outputs, when applicable) n/a
- Planned Activities Expected Outputs Timeframe From To
- FUST-XVIII – 20/06/2011 – PROGRESS REPORT 513GLO2016 page
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OceanTeacher Academy Progress Report Project Title OceanTeacher Academy Target Country or Region Global Budget code 513GLO2016 Contract number Funding sources FUST Total Budget approved US$ 1,540,000 Reporting Period June 2010- June 2011 Executing Agency IOC/IODE Implementing partners Project starting date 23/04/2009 Project completion date 31/12/2013 Responsible Sector SC Name of Person completing Report: Peter Pissierssens/ Claudia Delgado
The objective of the OceanTeacher Training Academy is to establish a facility that provides an annual teaching programme of courses related to oceanographic data and information management and the development of related products and services that will contribute to the sustainable management of oceans and coastal areas in Africa and other regions. The OceanTeacher Training Academy underpins all Ocean Data and Information Networks developed by IOC/IODE. The OceanTeacher Academy furthermore promotes the development of regional training nodes thereby providing a multiplier effect on the number of trainees as well as a contribution to the long-term sustained impact of the provided capacity building activities of IOC/IODE and other IOC programmes (e.g. GOOS, ICAM, JCOMM (IOC/WMO), Capacity Building…). The OceanTeacher Academy project started on 24/04/2010 and ends on 31/12/2013. This report provides an overview of all activities undertaken in the framework of OceanTeacher Academy until 30 May 2011.
OCEANTEACHER SOFTWARE SYSTEM It is recalled that in October 2009 a new software developer was recruited on the project: Mr Aditya Naik Kakodkar (India). His first main task was to re-develop the OceanTeacher software environment, migrating the course management system from the KewlNextGen syste used previously to Moodle, and to implement the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) environment for the digital library. This was completed by the previous reporting deadline May 2010). Subsequently new courses and DL content were added to the new system throughout 2010 and 2011. OCEANTEACHER WEBSITE In order to better integrate the different elements of OT it was decided to redevelop the OT website which is now an integral part of Moodle. Special attention has been given to providing clear information on the application procedure, registration etc. This was discussed extensively at the 2nd Session of the IODE Steering Group for the OceanTeacher Project (see below) 
COURSES The following courses were organized during the reporting period June 2010 - June 2011: 8 courses in Oostende and 3 elsewhere. 1 - 7 July 2010: OceanTeacher Academy Course on Disaster Planning and Recovery for Marine Librarians Lecturer: Nancy Kraft # participants: 19
Lecturers: Andre Cattrijsse, Francisco Hernandez and Reiner Schlitzer # participants: 20
Lecturers: Murray Brown and Greg Reed # participants: 21
Lecturers: Greg Reed and Yassine Lassoued # participants: 17
Lecturers: Rafael Araujo, Maria Bello, Roger Longhorn # participants: 12
Lecturers: Greg Reed and John Bemiasa # participants: 8
Lecturer: Greg Reed # participants: 16 23 – 27 May 2011: OceanTeacher Academy Course MIM: Training Course on Disaster Planning and Recovery Lecturers: Nancy Kraft, Linda Pikula and Caitlin Moore ????? # participants: 14 30 May - 1 June 2011: IOC/UNESCO Marine Spatial Training Course (organized in collaboration with IOC/ICAM) Lecturer: Charles Ehler # participants: 15 (TBC)
Organized in Mar del Plata, Argentina (back to back with IAMSLIC) 4 - 15 April 2011: Accredited OTA Course: University Curriculum in Marine Data Management (2011) organized at BIOS, Bermuda Lecturer: Murray Brown # participants: 10
Hosted by the Erasmus Mundus MSc Program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation; Ghent University Lecturer: Murray Brown # participants: 21 Each course is followed by an evaluation by the students of the course and lecturers. The results of the evaluations have remained very positive with high ratings for the course content and lecturers. At the end of each course a “Certificate of Participation” is provided to each student. In the case of the Bermuda and UGent courses these certificates are “accredited” by the host organization. Theoretical lectures are now systematically video-recorded and made available online (e.g. see http://www.vimeo.com/iode). Overall, during calendar year 2010 a total of 155 students were received in Oostende representing 953 person days. The number of lecturers available for courses has increased substantially during 2009-2011 to 15:
An updated list of OTA lecturers and their profiles is available at OceanTeacher website. STRATEGY AND PLANNING The 2nd Session of the IODE Steering Group for the OceanTeacher Project was held in Miami, USA between 11-15 April 2011. The main objectives of the meeting were (i) to assess the current status of the Project; (ii) to further develop and optimize distance-learning aspects of the Project; and (iii) to discuss future directions of the project. In order to discuss distance learning best practices the meeting had invited Dr Judith Boettcher. The meeting noted that, in order to allow for long-term sustainability and continued access to basic courses it would be preferable to make a few courses available fully online. It was decided that these courses will include: Data Management – Marine GIS; Marine Information Management – Grant Writing. For other courses “blended learning” will be utilized. This implies mixing face-to-face lectures with distance learning sessions. All courses currently available in the OT Moodle Classroom were reviewed and catalogued in to 7 categories or ‘status level’:
Subsequent to this analysis, the following courses are available (for further details see also annex 3)
In order to assess training needs it was agreed to have a new, updated survey on training needs. Therefore, the calendar of training activities for the next biennium (2012-13) was not decided during the meeting, as it will be based on a new survey to organize in June 2011. Following the analysis of status of current courses available, this new survey on training needs should include: o types 1 and 2 courses list (ranking question to assess interest on these courses) o ask for interest in types 3 to 6 courses o other topics needed (open question) o list of new topics pre-identified by the Steering Group (see annex 3) o furthermore, the survey should target both: • the IODE community (Data Management + Marine Information Management) • the end users of those services (such as the researchers that use those libraries) (note: check OceanExpert to identify end users) o the survey will be created on SurveyMonkey and will be circulated (as pdf) amongst the Steering Group for structure and contents approval.
o OT and OT trainers will mentor students that demonstrate potential for teaching and/or co-teaching (at least 1 Spanish + 1 French speaking) in each course o OT will provide the English version of each course as a package, and the aforementioned identified co-teachers will be responsible for translating these materials; - Agenda item 8.2: Discuss how to address the internet connectivity and band-with problems […] and how to make the digital library and/or classroom materials available in offline version: o OT will explore the feasibility of using Poodle (http://www.maflt.org/products/poodle) to provide OTA offline; o Nevertheless, it should be kept in mind that DM always requires downloading datasets; - Agenda item 8.3: Discuss how to feed OT with training materials and tools from other sources: o OT will contact SeaDataNet on how to make their training materials available; o OT will inform any Cruise Summary Reports authors that they are allowed to use OT platform to make those CSR available; o OT will inform COMET that OT can make COMET’s training materials available. - Agenda item 8.5: Discuss how to make MS contributing more to OT (DL, training materials and trainers): o OT needs to identify/target specific contributors, often involved with IODE in the past (e.g. Bob Keeley, etc) o OT needs to become attractive to potential trainers
The following elements were identified:
STAFF CHANGE It is noted that Dr Wouter Rommens left the IOC Project Office for IODE on 1 June 2010. He was replaced as IODE Training Coordinator by Dr Claudia Delgado as from 17 January 2011.
Despite a rigorous selection process there were still cases when students did not sufficiently master the English language to fully benefit of courses. To remedy this a new procedure will be utilized (see II). Delays in arrival of funding (January-April) have made that courses could not easily be planned before April of each year. Adding the difficulty of organizing events during June-August and December this limits the months during which a course can be organized to 5 months/year.
SEE II
Long-term sustainability will depend on the ability of OT and OTA to be recognized as an essential training system to acquire the necessary skills in DM and IM at the national level (data centres) and for marine degree programmes and post-graduates (international level). It will be necessary to focus on cooperation agreements between e.g. training programmes of other organizations (e.g. POGO) and IODE/OT whereby these will cover the cost of the courses (as is the case for eg SeaDataNet). In addition a cost-recovery based fee system will need to be investigated for the fully-distance learning courses.
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See II
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