The 3rd ongoing edition of Polish Digital Libraries Federation’s e-learning courses has ended along with the end of September. We received lots of favourable opinions about courses. The shorter one, “Cooperation with Europeana” did enroll 39 users, 92 people registered for “Digital repositories for small memory institutions”. Similarly to previous edition, every participant could gain a certificate confirming completion of the course and the given note. Passing the tests and filling the questionnaires after each subject were the conditions for which the certificates were given.

The “Cooperation with Europeana” course obtained the average note of 4.71. These marks are highly similar to last edition’s ones. Most of participants acknowledged that presented subjects will be useful in their profession and that they are satisfied with the course. Users were pleased to participate in the course and we are happy to surprise people with the quality of it.

We asked participants where did they get to know about the course – it came out that most of them heard about it from a tutor or their boss (9 answers), next, but minor places were: mailing, websites and facebook (each one 3 answers). Questionnaires showed also that majority of participants were librarians, students and few less computer scientists and repository employees.

As it goes to the course “Digital repositories for small memory institutions”, it got the average note of 4.66 so it is the same as it was in the last scholarship cycle. Most of participants got to know about the course from some websites (14 answers), the second most often chosen answer was: “from a friend” (7) or “from a tutor/boss” (10). Only a few answered that it was from Facebook or mailing. The criticism that appeared in comments were mainly about the necessity to improve the navigation between subjects. We gathered also lots of positive opinions about solid and accurate preparation of the course.

Finishing this scholarship cycle entails with closing the possibility of registration for new users. Already registered ones can use and come back to courses. We do not give certificates till the start of a new cycle. Courses will be updated and enriched, we will keep you posted.

Full report describing the evaluation of third edition can be found in PSNC institutional repository.

New scholarship cycle of the two e-learning courses: “Digital repositories for small memory institutions” and “Cooperation with Europeana” running in frames of the Digital Libraries Federation has begun with the beginning of June. Courses were upgraded, enriched mostly with information about building digital collections, also an article about the Digitlab system was added. At the end of each subject there is an evaluation questionnaire in which you can express your opinion about the content of given element of the course. Courses were moved to the newest version of Moodle platform which offers also mobile access to the courses.

Present scholarship cycle will last 3 months and each participant has a possibility to gain a certificate testifying their participation. The only condition is getting positive marks at quizzes and fulfilling questionnaires (more information in courses).

Today we have started a new edition of Polish e-learning courses “Digital repositories for small memory institutions” and “Cooperation with Europeana“. Both courses are available in e-learning area of Digital Libraries Federation portal. Second one was recently updated because of the Europeana portal development and works in ACCESS IT Plus project and for the first time is available in Polish. This edition will last 3 months from today until first days of January 2013. After finishing each of those free courses, participants may receive electronic certificates (separate for each course). The course “Digital repositories for small memory institutions” was really successful earlier, we hope that time limitation will impact positively on curse participants motivation ;-).