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DECOM 2008 is organised in partnership by the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) and its member, Giunti Labs, the leading European provider of online and mobile learning content management solutions. It will be held on 23rd of October, in Sestri Levante, North West Italy. The invited delegates will be able to improve their understanding of new generation learning content production, management, sharing and distribution models which will empower the Educational Publishing Industry in this new millennium.

More at http://www.decom2008.com/

The deadline for submitting papers to the Second International Workshop on  Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M’08) has been extended to the 30th of June.

Second International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M’08)
(Formerly Learning Object Discovery & Exchange - LODE1)
 
 
CALL FOR PAPERS — NEW DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2008 
 
The SE@M workshop is held in conjunction with the 3rd European Conference on
Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’08 - http://www.ectel08.org/), Maastricht School
of Management, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 17-19, 2008.
 
CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION
Creating good, pedagogically sound and effective learning resources incurs
substantial costs, so avoiding duplication of development efforts is important. The
TEL community has been and is still dedicating a lot of energy to the creation of
better and more reusable learning resources. Some of these efforts in the sphere of 
reusability have matured enough to lead to the creation of standards such as the IEEE
Learning Object Metadata, the IMS Content Package, or the IMS Common Cartridge.
Nowadays, the number of reusable educational resources available online, for free or
by subscription, is huge but most of these resources are “hidden” in repositories and
cannot be easily found, hampering their potential use and reuse.
 
Over the past few years, researchers and practitioners have started to address these
issues. Several initiatives worldwide (such as the EUN Learning Resource Exchange,
GLOBE, CORDRA) are developing solutions for federating e-learning systems and
unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories. Started last year, the work of
the IMS Group on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange aims at supporting these
initiatives by developing a set of specifications that facilitate the discovery and
retrieval of distributed learning resources.
 
The main goals of the international workshop on search and exchange of e-learning
materials are to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of
learning resource retrieval, facilitate the exchange between them and foster future
collaborations. It aims at offering a forum where these researchers and practitioners
can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the
latest advances in the state of the art and practices for discovering and exchanging
learning content.
 
The dominant focus of this year’s workshop will be on the presentation of both long
and short refereed papers. We also plan to include a keynote speech and a panel
discussion.
                                                

Note: It has been decided to rename the workshop: “international workshop on
search & exchange of e-le@rning materials (SE@M)” to avoid any confusion with
the work of IMS on Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (IMS LODE). 
 
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TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to)
• Infrastructures for learning resource discovery and exchange
o Interoperable content and metadata repositories
o Protocols for exposing content
o Federations of learning resources
o Service registries
• Rich description of resources
o Metadata
o Standards and application profiles
o Automatic metadata generation versus human indexing
o Intellectual property and metadata
o Contextual Attention Metadata
o Mapping and crosswalks between metadata standards
• Discovering content
o User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
o Retrieval of learning resources (searching, browsing)
o Content aggregation
o Interoperable query languages
o Harvesting versus federated searching
o Enhanced search mechanism (sorting, ranking)
o Inclusion of other type of content (library, cultural heritage)
o Recommendation systems
o Quality aspects
• Exchanging content
o Resource identification
o Open content and reusable resource licensing
o Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting) 
o DRM, licensing and content protection
• WEB-2.0 approaches (folksonomies, content syndication) 
• Semantic web approaches
 
 SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (max. 10 pages) or
work-in-progress as short papers (max. 5 pages). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed
by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality.
Accepted papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings as part of the
CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series,
ISSN 1613-0073.
 
Moreover, the two best papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of the
International Journal of Technology-Enhanced  Learning
(IJTEL –  http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel )
 
Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs ).

For camera-ready format instructions, please see “For Authors“ instructions at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html .
All questions and submissions should be sent to: seam2008@eun.org

IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper Submission: June 30, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: July 13, 2008
• Camera Ready Submission: August 10, 2008
• Workshop date: September 17, 2007
 
ORGANISERS
David Massart, Jean-Noël Colin and Frans Van Assche
European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• Vladimir Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 
• Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium 
• Mike Halm, PennState University, USA 
• Manuel Kolp, UCL, Belgium 
• Robert Kristofl, BMUKK, Austria 
• Eugenijus Kurilovas, SMM, Lithuania 
• Jon Mason, InterCog, Australia
• Cu D. Nguyen, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST), Italy
• Gilbert Paquette, Teluq, Canada 
• Fredrik Paulsson, Umeå University, Sweden 
• Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland 
• Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium 
• Daniel Rehak, Learning Systems Architecture Lab and Daniel Rehak Consulting LLC, USA 
• Griff Richards, SFU, Canada 
• Bernd Simon, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria 
• Stefaan Ternier, KUL, Belgium 
• Tsuneo Yamada, NIME, Japan 

Min avhandling (Modularization of the learning architecture: supporting learning theories by learning technologies) har uppmärksammats på flera ställen vilket givetvis är jättekul!

• På KKS Framtidens lärande: Mer flexibla lärandemiljöer
• På Øysten Johanessens blogg: Fredrik Paulsson har disputert
• På Skolporten, Forskning & utveckling
• På 計畫贊助者 (?)
• På En IKT-pedagogs funderingar

Min förhoppning är att den ska läsas och att det ska bli diskussion. Jag har försökt skriva så att både datavetare och pedagoger kan ha utbyte av att läsa den och jag hoppas att jag har lyckats.

Second International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M’08)

This call is open until June 22nd.

CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION
 
Creating good, pedagogically sound and effective learning resources incurs
substantial costs, so avoiding duplication of development efforts is important. The
TEL community has been and is still dedicating a lot of energy to the creation of
better and more reusable learning resources. Some of these efforts in the sphere of 
reusability have matured enough to lead to the creation of standards such as the IEEE
Learning Object Metadata, the IMS Content Package, or the IMS Common Cartridge.
Nowadays, the number of reusable educational resources available online, for free or
by subscription, is huge but most of these resources are “hidden” in repositories and
cannot be easily found, hampering their potential use and reuse.
 
Over the past few years, researchers and practitioners have started to address these
issues. Several initiatives worldwide (such as the EUN Learning Resource Exchange,
GLOBE, CORDRA) are developing solutions for federating e-learning systems and
unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories. Started last year, the work of
the IMS Group on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange aims at supporting these
initiatives by developing a set of specifications that facilitate the discovery and
retrieval of distributed learning resources.
 
The main goals of the international workshop on search and exchange of e-learning
materials are to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the field of
learning resource retrieval, facilitate the exchange between them and foster future
collaborations. It aims at offering a forum where these researchers and practitioners
can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the
latest advances in the state of the art and practices for discovering and exchanging
learning content.
 
The dominant focus of this year’s workshop will be on the presentation of both long
and short refereed papers. We also plan to include a keynote speech and a panel
discussion.

I torsdags skrev Stefan Pålsson om Spindeln på Kollegiets Omvärldsblogg. Kul att Spindeln får uppmärksamhet! Det behövs bra hjälpmedel för lärare att arbeta med digitala lärresurser. Dessutom har vi ju arbetat i flera år med den underliggande tekniska lösningen

Den här veckan har MSU och IML lanserat en preliminär version av söktjänsten Spindeln, som ingår i IT för pedagoger. För närvarande är fem arkiv anslutna, men antalet kommer att växa efterhand. Allt material som är licensierat under Creative Commons kommer att kopplas till MELT.

Just nu går det bara att hitta fria lärresurser via Spindeln, men vi planerar att även erbjuda tjänsten till kommersiella aktörer. Givetvis kommer det då förtfarande att vara möjligt att söka efter fria resurser.

Precis som Stefan skriver så är detta en preliminär version av Spindeln som vi successivt kommer att vidareutveckla och förbättra. Ett av de problm vi har är att kvaliteten på den metadata (beskrivningen av resurserna) som finns i de olika arkiven är på tok för dålig. Tjänsten kommer aldrig att kunna bli än vad metadatat i de ingående arkiven tillåter. Samtidigt visar detta väldigt tydligt på behovet av gemensamma standarder för hur lärresurser ska beskrivas. Det är exempelvis viktigt att vi använder samma ord (gemensamma vokabulärer), att resurser klassificeras på liknande sätt, att det finns gemensamma märkfält och så vidare. Förhoppningsvis kommer detta att bli bättre när vi lanserar SWE-LOM , som är just en sådan gemensam standard.

Nu finns det även en e-postlista för Spindeln . Där kommer vi kontinuerligt att skicka ut information och nyheter om tjänsten.  

Nu har Spindeln lanserats! Detta har vi (Inst. för interaktiva medier och lärande, IML ) gjort tillsammans med MSU. Spindeln är en söktjänst för digitala lärresurser för skolan. Idén är att göra det enklare för lärare och elever att hitta relevanta digitala lärresurser. Med Spindeln är det ännu så länge möjligt att söka efter fria lärresurser. Tekniken som Spindeln bygger på är en direkt tillämpning av vår och KMR-gruppens forskning om Semanic Web, digitala arkiv och tekniker för att koppla samma arkiv.

Vi kommer successivt att koppla in fler arkiv. Den stora utmaningen just nu är att försöka höja kvaliteten på metadata i de olika arkiven. Den är minst sagt varierande och det finns en hel del att förbättra för att på det sättet få bättre sökresultat…

Här finns pressinformationen från Umeå universitet

Här finns mer information från MSU

På KKS Kollegiet har Stefan Pålsson skrivit en artikel om MELT projektet där Myndigheten för Skolutveckling (MSU), Nationellt centrum för flexibelt lärande (CFL) och min institution, interaktiva medier och lärande (IML), deltar från Sverige.

Kollegiet - Fria lärresurser från tretton länder

I höst kommer svenska skolor att få tillgång till digitala lärresurser från tretton europeiska länder via ett nytt resursnav på Skoldatanätet. Bakom satsningen ligger EU-projektet MELT som jobbar för att skapa enhetliga och för lärarna logiska sätt att märka digitalt material.

The SCAM project is more alive than ever! We have now moved everything from SourceForge to our own Track-based system. At the same time we have started a blog for SCAM , where news and other relevant information will be posted.

Today we have started our new blog for the SCAM project. The blog will be used to blog about news, thoughts and other relevant information regarding the SCAM project. There is a lot of things going on in the project right now. We are moving away from SourceForge in favor of our own Track system. This means that we have moved our SCAM web, mailing lists, code repository, downloads and so on to here .

Read the post here  

Måndag-onsdag var jag i Neapel på kick-off-möte i ett EU-projekt som heter EdReNe. Det hade jag tänkt skriva om här, men det behöver jag inte för det har Stefan Pålsson (sluta stjäla mina scoop) på Kollegiet redan gjort här: Kick-off för Educational Repositories Network

En sak bör dock förtydligas:

Syftet är att skapa ett europeiskt nätverk kring nationella arkiv för digitala lärresurser

Det handlar om ett nätverk för erfarenhetsutbyte. Europeiskt nätverk för att koppla samman nationella arkiv finns redan genom MELT-projektet.

Below is the call for a workshop with an interesting theme (at least if you find Learning Objects and repositories interesting ) that will be held at the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07).

 ***We apologize for cross-postings***

First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE 2007)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The LODE workshop is held in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece, September 17-20, 2007

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

Although the use of learning (content) management systems is becoming common in most educational organizations and the number of educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge, most of these resources are hidden in repositories and cannot be easily found, which hampers their potential use and reuse.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working at unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories and facilitating the retrieval and exchange of this content. The workshop aims at providing an international forum to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and innovative approaches in the field.  Therefore, the workshop welcomes original/position/work-in-progress/experience papers on all aspects related to the discovery and retrieval of distributed learning resources. Submissions that identify new issues and focused directions for future work in the area are also welcome.

The workshop will be strongly discussion-oriented. To that effect, all accepted papers and posters will be made available online before the workshop at http://fire.eun.org/lode2007/.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to)

* Reusable resources
o Resource identification
o Open content and reusable resource licensing
* Metadata
o Standards and application profiles
o Automatic metadata generation vs human indexing
o Intellectual property and metadata
o Mapping and crosswalks between metadata standards
* Repositories
o Interoperable content and metadata repositories
o Protocols for exposing content
* Discovering content
o User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
o Content aggregation
o Service Registries
o Interoperable query languages
o Harvesting vs federated searching
o Enhanced search mechanism
o Inclusion of other type of content (library, cultural heritage)
o Recommendation systems
o Quality aspects
* Exchanging content
o Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
o DRM, licensing and content protection
* WEB-2.0 approaches (folksonomies, content syndication)
* Semantic web approaches

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers (8 pages), work-in-progress as short papers (max. 4 pages) or position statements (max. 2 pages).
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted papers will be published online as EC-TEL workshop proceedings as part of the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN publication series, ISSN 1613-0073. Authors should use the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs ). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All questions and submissions should be sent to: lode2007 @ eun . org

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission: June 20, 2007
* Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2007
* Camera Ready Submission: August 15, 2007
* Workshop dates: September 17 or 18, 2007

ORGANIZERS

* David Massart, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
* Jean-Noel Colin, Sun Microsystems, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Kerry Blinco, DEST, Australia
* Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium
* Mike Halm, PennState University, USA
* Marek Hatala, SFU, Canada
* Robert Kristofl, BMBWK, Austria
* Franois Magnan, Teluq, Canada
* Jon Masson, InterCog, Australia
* Martin Morrey, Intrallect, UK
* Gilbert Paquette, Teluq, Canada
* Fredrik Paulsson, UmeΠUniversity, Sweden
* Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland
* Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium
* Daniel Rehak, University of Memphis, USA
* Griff Richards, SFU, Canada
* Bernd Simon, WirtschaftsuniversitŠt Wien, Austria
* James Simon, Sun Microsystems, USA
* Stefaan Ternier, KUL, Belgium
* Tsuneo Yamada, NIME, Japan

ABOUT EC-TEL07

After the success of EC-TEL06, the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to TEL, including its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments.
This is a competitive and broad forum for TEL research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. EC-TEL07 provides unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and includes project meetings and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European Commission. See http://www.ectel07.org/ for details.

It’s like YouTube , but for Education.

There is also a blog at http://teachertube.blogspot.com/

[tags]video, TeacherTube, learning, digital learning content[/tags]

This is an important piece of the puzzle in order to make Swedish learning resources available for exchange in both Swedish and European network. We will start working on this in august, using the FIRE system and the EUN Learning Resource Exchange Application profile.

EUN releases upgraded Learning Resource Exchange Application profile
Author: EUN News

In May 2006, European Schoolnet completed the revision of the Learning Resource Exchange Application profile, which is used to describe digital learning resources in the form of metadata. For European Schoolnet the application profile is a tool which makes it easier for users to find online learning resources. It provides a set of metadata elements and vocabularies that are used by all participating learning object repositories of the EUN’s Learning Resource Exchange (LRE).

The LRE Application Profile is based on IEEE LOM, the Standard for Learning Object Metadata, but also contains additional metadata elements to extend it.

Read the whole storry at http://www.europeanschoolnet.org/ww/en/pub/eun/news/news_headlines/1505.htm  

Today I gave a presentation (an overview) of three (it is actually four:) different strategies for connecting Learning Objects Repositories (LOR) at the National Agency for School Improvement. We have tested and evaluated each strategy in connection to the SCAM project and the results will soon be the subject for a papers. The presentation focused on LOR, but is actually valid for any metadata exchange in order to connect archives and repositories. The presentation can be downloaded from here.

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

Att flytta innebär mycket jobb, tycker nog de flesta. Allting du har samlat på dig under åren ska sorteras. Saker ska packas ner, lådor märkas och sedan ska allting packas upp igen och passas in i en ny struktur på ett nytt ställe. Den webbaserade e-portföljen, som Myndigheten för skolutveckling har tagit fram och som du kan prova på Skoldatanätet, är ett sätt att underlätta både samlandet, sorterandet och flytten – i det digitala livet.

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