1. Current Directions in Educational lre.eun.org Repositories Frans Van Assche European Schoolnet

2. LRE Federation Ministries of education Publishers Austria FWU Czech Republic Cambridge-Hitachi Estonia Cambridge University Press Finland Skolavefurinn lre.eun.org Flanders (Belgium) France Young Digital Planet Hungary Dunlem e-Learning Iceland Others Israel The European Schoolnet Ireland ARIADNE Foundation Italy Lithuania KULeuven Norway OERcommons Poland Contento Portugal Promethean Region of Catalonia Cit des Sciences Slovenia Open University (UK) Spain Sweden Siveco + Interested to become Associate Partners

3. Experience with educational repositories Responsibilities 2000-2008 Managing EUN Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) First federated search into heterogeneous network of LO lre.eun.org reporistories LRE Application profile V1-V3 LRE portal launched in 2008 Metadata & Repositories 1974 Semantic Interoperability, controlled vocabularies and thesauri 1979 First paper on metadata repositories 1996 Web for Schools. Educational resource repository

4. Experience with educational repositories Learning Technology Standards Main editor of Controlled Vocabularies for Learning Object lre.eun.org Metadata Harmonisation of vocabularies Coeditor Simple Query Interface Curriculum Exchange Format Past Vice-chair CEN/ISSS WSLT Past member of the board of directors of the European IMS Network

5. What went wrong In 2001 believing that commercal publishers were ready to engage in a federation of repositories lre.eun.org In 2008 School teachers rejected the federated search Unstable result sets Unstable order Speed Is this a general rejection ? Many errors when end users apply Creative Commons

6. Unexpected positive Adoption of the LRE application profile of the LOM including the LRE thesaurus lre.eun.org Willingness of the community to contribute Tags Translations of resources and metadata Improvements to metadata

7. LRE public portal http://lreforschools.eun.org LRE public portal officially launched Dec 2008 Over 130,000 lre.eun.org resources/assets in May 2009 from 25 providers Open free. Mostly Creative Commons Being promoted initially to 60,000 eTwinning schools

8. Features LRE portal Search by language, subject, age range Browse by subject Filter results by learning resource type, lre.eun.org Sort by popularity, rating Discover learning resources by tags Add to Favourites Provide Ratings, Annotations, Tags See other persons favourites Share favourites with other users

9. LRE portal Features Multilinguality 24 languages Multilinguality & social tagging lre.eun.org Automatic translation of metadata Integrating LRE functionality in other EUN projects. E.g. eTwinning through a widget About 20-25 users (mostly teachers) registering every day

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28. Introducing an international educational resource repository National reflexes vs. European attitude Impatience Travel well - Learning object quality lre.eun.org National curriculum Discipline/theme oriented social tag clouds Searching process Interest of teachers evolves Object vs. idea/tool Lesson plans Virtual vs. face-to-face contact - Virtual international collaboration is still an issue License issue; CC extremely useful 28

29. Different Levels of Interoperability lre.eun.org Technical Semantic Political

30. A typical usage scenario Find the weakest link Discovery Search Retract Soc. Recommend. Agent based Evaluate Expose Choose lre.eun.org Describe Resolution Create Integrate Get Reference Adapt & Reuse or LO Disaggregate Aggregate Modify the sequence Modify the content Integrate Use/Play Local Delete

31. lreforschools.eun.org (teachers) lre.eun.org lre.eun.org (repository owners) info.melt-project.eu (see final report)