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I norge har man just släppt en utredning om LMS i skolan . Mer information, underlag och själva rapporten kan fås via norska eStandard .
Utdanningsdirektoratet har lagt fram utredningen om digitale læringsplattformer i grunnopplæringen som Kunnskapsdepartementeet har bestilt. Målet med utredningen var å få mer kunnskap om eventuell pedagogisk merverdi ved bruk av LMS som nå også begynner å bre om seg i skolen.
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Participate in the virtual conference: "Learning objects – repositories, networks and cooperation – status in the Nordic-Baltic countries". 24-28 april 2006 at NordFlex.Net!.
Programme
Monday 24 April:
Liisa Lind, producer, National Board of Education, Finland Quality is a moving target - defining quality criteria for online learning resources
Tuesday 25 April:
Sveinn Olafsson, administrator Iceland Consortia and Jón Ingi Skúlason, consulting engineer at Linuhonnun: Sharing learning resources. Network and consortia - joint access and use of electronic subscription and databases in the field of engineering.
Wednesday 26 April:
Ambjörn Naeve, senior researcher, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH): Democratic networks of learning objects with support from exchange of experience
Thursday 27 April:
Kaj Engen Nielsen, project manager, Center for Fleksibel Voksenuddannelse, Sønderjylland: Developing learning objects – introduction to easy production of interactive online learning materials and publishing on Internet. Sharing learning objects – and future visions
Friday 28 April:
Sirje Virkus, researcher, Tallinn Pedagogical University: Overview of Learning Objects in Estonia
Tore Hoel, project manager, e-standar -project, Høgskolen i Oslo : Learning Resources – how are they used in Learning? Some reflections after a small Norwegian project aiming at bridging the gap between the library and educational communities.
In the discussion after the daily online session is closed, a dedicated Moodle will be open all the 24 hours. We look forward to a lively discussion. The overall topic of the discussion:
Is it possible to make a joint effort in the Nordic-Baltic countries to make easy access to learning objects in our own country and across the borders?
Using Moodle
Dear participants!
More information at NordFlex Virtual Conference web site: http://www.nordflex.net
Last week I was at a "Learning Resource Exchange Seminar" aranged by the European Schoolnet (EUN) . The seminar gave a good overview of a couple of the European projects lead by EUN . A good summary of the seminar is avaliable at Norwegian eStandard . Only in Norwegian I am afraid.
At the seminar we presented the Fire system to which we have now connected SCAM . This means that SCAM-based archives can participate in Learning Resource exchange through Fire. The presentation was held by David Massart, Sylvia Hartinger and me. I think it went quite well..
At least everything worked and we where able to illustrate how we had connected archives in a federated "brokerage system" and how locally added resources becomes available to the network at once.
The next step will be to make a couple of Swedish archives available trough Fire. There are also plans to set up a national, Swedish Fire network. Hopefully we will be able to exploit some of those issues during the MELT project, in which I will be involved.
At Norwegian eStandard they write about the approach of the end of the LMS era - "II LMS-æraen er snart slutt?" (Norwegian only), but from a slightly different angle than my analysis.
Read it all at http://www.estandard.no/stories.php?story=05/11/25/3128954 (unfortunately only in Norwegian)
So do Teach and Learn online at: http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/2005/11/die-lms-die-you-too-ple.html, using the rather catchy title "Die LMS die! You too PLE!". I do however feel that Leigh sees LMS and VLE as being equals. For me, the VLE is at a higher level in the taxonomy; basically a name for anything that is a virtual (online) environment for Learning. It is sometimes claimed that LMS is an American expression while VLE is a European expression. I do however prefer to regard the LMS a kind of VLE.
Norska eStandardprojektet har publicerat en skrift som förklarar vad lärteknologistandarder är och varför vi behöver dem.
Hva er standarder og standardisering? Hvem bygger standarder for læringsteknologi? Hva er det som standardiseres, og hvordan har eStandard-prosjektet bidratt i denne prosessen? Dette er noen av spørsmålene som adresseres i rapporten "eStandard for Dummies" som eStandard-prosjektet har utarbeidet for UFD.
Rapporten kan rekommenderas till var och en som undrar över vad lärtaknologistandardisering och lärteknologistandarder är för något. Rapporten är på norska. Ladda ner den här This month poll: Do you think that Learning Technology Standards (such as IMS and SCORM) are important?
