Danish Schools Access to Video Archives
A recent newsletter report from the Educational Repositories Network described several initiatives related to the use of video and other resources driven by national broadcasters including the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
In this report, Ole Hjortdal reports on the Danish schools initiatives driven by DR. The Danish Broadcasting Corporation is an independent, licence financed public institution. As a public service organisation DR is obliged to broadcast education programmes and services. Within education DR works with: Educational TV-programmes (with topics like globalisation, climate change etc.), campaigns (like anti-bullying) and web-based educational materials (e.g. dr.dk/skole for primary schools, dr.dk/gymnasium for secondary).
The service for primary schools is a subscription based service and was launched in January 2005. It is based on access to and digitization of DR Archives. More than 23,000 clips are organised in different categories (history, society, everyday life, science etc.). For each category there is a set of themes, e.g. World War I under history. A theme contains relevant clips, sound clips, facts, timelines, assignments, ideas for the teacher, etc. The prices are based on the number of students, e.g. it costs 900 Euro per year for a school with more than 1000 pupils/students. Ole Hjortdal reports that one of the challenges in the near future is that teachers are not using the material enough (although the growth in whiteboards seems to help). Limited access to adequate computers in the schools might be one explanation.
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