AESOP

“Aesop” – Advanced Electronic Scenarios Operating Platform – Educational Policy Institute – Greece

“Aesop” platform was developed by the Greek Educational Policy Institute and is an innovative concrete tool of Development, Design, Writing, Assessment and Presentation of Interactive Teaching Scenarios in a modern and functional environment.
More explicitly, the “Aesop” Platform supports the Design or/and Employment of the existing Digital Material by use of plethora of interactive tools through exploitation of modern Web technologies.
The Digital material can be converted and adapted fully into the Digital Teaching Scenarios’ Structure, as the creator is able to employ the available tools separately and combined, using in any case his/her imagination and creativity, matching each time Teaching Goals, Topic Taxonomies, Implementation Phases etc. The Platform comprises many Exemplary Digital Scenarios implemented by scientific committees and therefore guaranteed in terms of Scientific and Educational Proficiency. Additionally, it comprises a great number of assessed scenarios created by the wider educational community that have been evaluated as Best and Adequate.
The evaluation of Best and Adequate Digital Teaching scenarios was realized following a double assessment of each submitted scenario by the wider spectrum of the educators’ community. The scenarios that were pronounced as Adequate were marked with 50-69,5 points while those pronounced as Best were marked with 70-100 points. Best scenarios were awarded by the Ministry of Education on 03.11.2015.
Experienced teachers with approved high qualifications, assessed scenarios providing full documentation of their judgement, by employing the completed scenarios’ assessment environment. The assessment was realized by two anonymous assessors randomly selected by ballot, to pronounce best and adequate scenarios uploaded onto “Aesop” Platform, following a continuous dynamic procedure of submissions (by interested teachers) and assessment (by a registered pool of assessors).
The Exemplary Scenarios implemented by Scientific Committees of Experts as well as the assessed as Best and Adequate Scenarios fulfil the required Scientific and Pedagogical prerequisites in terms of their employment in the learning and teaching procedure.
The “Aesop” Platform is entirely connected with the Greek National Aggregator of Educational Content for Primary and Secondary Education (“Photodentro”). Therefore, every interested party can search for material regarding the Digital Interactive Teaching Scenarios via the “Aesop” Platform or Digital School.
As of December 2015, every teacher can register in the Platform and design/create up to 10 Digital Teaching Scenarios to employ in his class. These scenarios are not uploaded onto the Platform (given the lack of evaluation by the assessors’ committees), but teachers can implement them all the same, when designing digitally their classes or teaching.
In summary, the “Aesop” platform is a valuable innovative concrete digital system of Development, Design, Assessment and Presentation of Scientifically and Pedagogically Certified Digital Interactive Teaching Scenarios. In parallel, it also consists of a designing tool of Digital Interactive Scenarios to be employed by teachers of the wider spectrum of the educational community.