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David Massart, EUNNov 2, 2009Budapest, Hungary
Building a Learning Resource Exchange for Schools
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What is European Schoolnet (EUN)?
Dedicated to
Supporting schools in bringing about the best use
of technology in learning
Promote the Europeandimension in schools
and education
Improving and raising the quality of education
in Europe
Network of 31 Ministriesof Education in Europe
founded in 1997
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Range of projects and services
EUN Activities
ICT policiesand practice
Peer LearningICT Cluster
eTwinning
SchoolInnovation
InternetSafety
SchoolValidation
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Xplora
Xperimania
School networkingand services
Spring DayDevelopment
YouthPrize
eLearningAwards
Insight PortalPIC
LIFE
LREASPECT
Interoperability andcontent exchange
MELT
CALIBRATE
CELEBRATE
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CELEBRATEdemonstration project
2002- 2004
CALIBRATEconnecting repositories
2005-2007
MELTcontent enrichment
2006-2009
ASPECTcontent standards
2008-2011
Building a Learning Resource Exchange
LRE2008…
emapps iClass
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Large scale projects• CELEBRATE - €5M funding from IST Programme
• 22 partners
• CALIBRATE - €3.3M funding from IST Programme• 17 partners
• MELT - €3M funding eContentplus Programme• 18 partners
• ASPECT - €3.7M funding eContentplus Programme– 22 partners
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Content that ‘travels well’
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Content that ‘travels well’?
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Content that ‘travels well’??
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Content that ‘travels well’???
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LRE public portalhttp://lreforschools.eun.org
• LRE public portal officially launched Dec 2008
• A ‘re-branded’ version of the MELT portal
• Over 130,000 resources/assets in May 2009 from 25 providers
• Being promoted initially to 60,000 eTwinning schools
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What is the LRE Vision?• LRE is a service for MoE driven by MoE and
involves private sector partners
• Aim is to improve use and reuse of educational content in schools– better technical interoperability between repositories– improve semantic interoperability of content– develop best practice in how to implement content-
related standards
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What is the LRE Vision?• It is NOT a centralised portal…
• but a framework that supports semantic and technical interoperability of content repositories
• Adds value to national content strategies
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Learning Resource Exchange
An infrastructure for:
1. Federating applications/platforms that provide learning resources to schools (repositories, learning platforms, authoring environments)
2. Providing seamless access to K-12 resources to applications that consume these (portals, VLEs)
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Flexible technical solutions• Connect a repository, portal or VLE to the
federation
• Let the LRE harvest your metadata using OAI-PMH
• Publish your metadata using SPI
• ‘mass upload’ of your metadata - just complete an Excel spreadsheet
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Not a Centralized PortalLRE search from within a national portal already implemented (Scoilnet)
LRE widget that can be integrated in other applications - eTwinning
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Why join the LRE?
The most important Europe-wide (and potential global) player in e-learning content may become the European Schoolnet (EUN) through their European Learning Resource Exchange which is currently under development.
Open Educational Practices and Resources: OLCOS Roadmap 2012, January 2007
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MoE LRE Partners• Initial LRE partners inc. partners in the CALIBRATE and
MELT projects - 16 Ministries of Education in Europe: • Austria, Belgium (Flemish community), Region of Catalonia
(Spain), Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
• plus Czech Republic repository April 2009 - 17 MoE• plus France and Portugal in ASPECT project - 2009 - 19 MoE
• MoE LRE Working Group defining strategy
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Why work with EUN?
“We want to bridge the gap between community publishers and professional publishers.”
John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press
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Content partner benefits• Reach a global audience with your content• Standard-based metadata application profile for
schools• Multilingual thesaurus/vocabularies• Feedback on your resources - popularity, ratings,
comments• Discover which of your resources ‘travel well’• Enrichment of your metadata - LRE social tagging• Automatic metadata generation• Automatic metadata translation• Expert support on semantic interoperability and
standards for content exchange
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LRE global alliances
There is a shared vision with other global players - OER Commons..GLOBE..
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Some LRE Associate Partners
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How to Join?• Send us an example of your metadata
• One-to-one meetings to discover your requirements
• Send staff to a LRE technical workshop
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ASPECT Sept 08 - Feb 2011• eContentplus Best Practice Network• €4.6 million budget• 9 MoE - Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia• Commercial partners - Cambridge University Press,
Icodeon, Siveco, Young Digital Planet, Vocabulary Management Group
• Experts from all international standardisation bodies and consortia active in eLearning: CEN/ISSS, IMS, IEEE, ISO, ADL...
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ASPECT RationaleThe standards organisations are inherently top-down and reactive. There is no other way for them to be. Inevitably they have to work on historic data. They have to tend to the restrictive rather than the enabling - even though some will argue, correctly, there are some fine borders. I think they are doomed to fail or if they don’t fail we are doomed.
Martin Owen, September 2007, Naace newsletter
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ASPECT Aims• Assess standards and specifications through their
implementation on a critical mass of educational content - plugfests and workshops
• Develop best practice in terms of implementing those standards
• Make recommendations on the combination of a number of standards to ensure more transparent interoperability
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LRE Service Centre• Registry for Learning Object Repositories• Vocabulary bank for education• Application profile registry• Automatic translation service for metadata• Compliance testing• Transformer service (turn metadata and
vocabularies into another format)• Information on known interoperability issues• Learning Technology Standards Observatory
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• Metadata: IEEE LOM, Dublin Core• Vocabulary: XVD, VDEX, ZTHES, SKOS• Protocol: SQI, SPI, SRU/SRW, OAI-PMH• Query Language: CQL, PLQL, LRE-QL• Registry: CORDRA, ADL Registry
Content discovery
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• Format: IMS Content Packaging, SCORM, IMS Common Cartridge, IMS QTI
• Identifier: Handle System, DOI• Access Control: Creative Commons, IMS
Common Cartridge, LRE DRM
Content discovery
Content use
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Content use
Content discovery
Best practices Implementation of best practice
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Content use
Content discovery
Best practices School pilots
Implementation of best practice
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WP3
WP4
WP5 WP6
WP7
Content use
Content discovery
Best practices School pilots
Dissemination
Validation & Quality Insurance
WP2
Implementation of best practice
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Further Informationhttp://celebrate.eun.orghttp://calibrate.eun.orghttp://info.melt-project.euhttp://aspect-project.orghttp://lre.eun.orghttp://lreforschools.eun.org