Organic.Edunet Web Portal: User Satisfaction Analysis

The Organic.Edunet Web portal is a multilingual federation of educational repositories, developed in order to enhance the availability and retrieval of quality educational resources about Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE). This paper presents the results of an online survey that took place from March to August 2010 in order to evaluate the user satisfaction from the Organic.Edunet Web portal. A standard methodology was followed in this survey, which was based on the WebQual questionnaire with the required modifications. The collected results were analyzed and statistically processed in order to lead to the corresponding conclusions

Online sharing educational content on biodiversity topics: a case study from organic agriculture and agroecology

E-Learning Technologies and Standards are emerging as the dominant way to make educational content widely available. Approaches to these technologies should be domain-independent and easily adaptable to different contexts. Organic.Edunet aims at making content on Organic Agriculture and Agroecology widely available through a single point of reference. To achieve this, the project has adopted and adapted Open Software solutions and has built upon them to offer the Organic.Edunet Web Federation Portal and the Repository Suite of Tools. This paper presents the tools that were developed in the frame of Organic.Edunet project, serving as a guide for all individuals that aim at establishing similar tools in a field such as the biodiversity

A Survey of Greek Agricultural E-Markets

The role that information technology plays in today’s business activities has led to an increase in firms using and/or deploying e-markets online. This development undoubtedly affects the agri-food sector, since a large number of agricultural firms are demonstrating or are expected to demonstrate e-commerce activities. This paper aims to provide an overview of the current status of agricultural e-markets in Greece, by presenting results from an analysis of 100 cases. Results indicate that Greek e-markets may still have a rather low degree of sophistication, but they demonstrate a strong B2B orientation, as well as an outreach for international customer bases.Internet, e-commerce, e-markets, agriculture, agri-food sector, survey, Consumer/Household Economics, Marketing,

Digitizing natural history and contextualizing environmental education: the Natural Europe project as mediator of innovative and effective learning

Natural History Museums (NHMs) are unique spaces that have only recently come to comprehend the effectiveness of the learning opportunities they offer to their visitors. Their collections form a rich source of knowledge about Earth’s biodiversity and natural history with a high quality scientific content aiming with the exploitation of new online technologies and tools to become available to everyone. In this paper, we focus in the use of digital cultural resources, and more specifically digital natural history and biodiversity content, for the development of educational activities in the context of Natural History Museums and Science Centers. Moreover the proposed approach aims to enhance the learning process that takes place in the formal environment of the classroom, in fulfilling ways that cannot be compared to school learning, while also building on the National Curriculum. The Natural Europe project goal is to study and adopt educational methods recognized by European Union and to implement them deploying innovative learning design tools.The work presented in this paper has been funded with support by the European Commission, and more specifically the project “Natural Europe: Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for Education” of the ICT PSP Programme. All authors have been supported with funding by GRNET during the implementation of this work, in the context of the above mentioned EU project

Learning Object Annotation for Agricultural Learning Repositories

This paper introduces a Web-based tool that has been developed to facilitate learning object annotation in agricultural learning repositories with IEEE LOM-compliant metadata. More specifically, it presents how an application profile of the IEEE LOM standard has been developed for the description of learning objects on organic agriculture and agroecology. Then, it describes the design and prototype development of the Organic.Edunet repository tool: a Web-based for annotating learning objects on organic agriculture and agroecology, organizing them in using a portfolio-like user interface in a learning repository, and then federating this repository with a network of agricultural learning repositories.QC 20111207</p

A Survey of Greek Agricultural E-Markets

The role that information technology plays in today’s business activities has led to an increase in firms using and/or deploying e-markets online. This development undoubtedly affects the agri-food sector, since a large number of agricultural firms are demonstrating or are expected to demonstrate e-commerce activities. This paper aims to provide an overview of the current status of agricultural e-markets in Greece, by presenting results from an analysis of 100 cases. Results indicate that Greek e-markets may still have a rather low degree of sophistication, but they demonstrate a strong B2B orientation, as well as an outreach for international customer bases