KnowledgeWebGeneral Education Area Meeting

Hanover,January 2005

Agenda (Summary)

- Summary and wrap-up: What we have achieved (25 min)

- D3.1.2- Demo of VISWER and ASPL-1

- The new JPA: Our plans for the future (65 min)- Specific focus on M18 deliverables

Next session(s):- Discussion: Open issues? (10 min)- WP business: Discuss details (WPs3.1, 3.2, 3.3)

Summary and wrap-up: What have we achieved

- Preparing for the VISWE statutes: D3.1.2 (L3S, 8min)- Decisions made:

- Non-profit association according to German law, located in Germany- Tasks: Host VISWER, support educational events in a flexible way, support shared

master as far as possible

- Decisions to discuss:• How to separate the tasks of the outreach-to-industry portal and VISWER regarding

the storage of material useful for learning• The membership fees• Founding members: Personal vs. institutional membership• Incentives for members• Steering committee members• Technical issues around the general assembly of the association (e.g. possible using

video conferencing system etc.) - Educational events and VISWE (like the SWSA -- ISWC?)- Secretary work / notary costs

What we have achieved (2)

● VISWER demo (L3S, 7 min)– Open issues: Quality guidelines for providing

resources– More content for industry

● ASPL-1 demo (OU, 10 min)

● Very successful summer school 2004– Not to forget to mention it :-)

Main comments from the reviewers & PO (L3S, 10 min)

- Need more content for practitioners (we call it industrial education or education for professionals)

- Why is VISWER important to have (yet another repository…)?

‘benefits of VISWER’ web page which I have set up recently according to the discussion on the mailing list

- Need quality guidelines ‘KnowledgeWeb certificate’ for the provided content

- Regarding format (e.g. non-proprietary like html or pdf)

- Regarding content

The new JPA: Our plans for the futureTask Deliverable Reporting on… Due

T 3.1.6 D 3.1.3 First draft of the VISWE statutes 18

T 3.1.4 D 3.1.4 Requirements on a joint e-learning infrastructure 18

T 3.1.3 D 3.1.5 Published learning resources and usage of learning resources 24

T 3.1.6 D3.1.6 Final version of the VISWE statutes, signed by the founding members. 30

Task Deliverable Reporting on… Due

T 3.2.4 D 3.2.4 Joint curriculum for a shared masters program 24

T 3.2.5 D 3.2.5 Procedure for the shared masters program, version 1 18

T 3.2.2 D 3.2.6 Summer school 2005 24

T 3.2.5 D 3.2.7 Procedure for the shared masters program version 2 30

T 3.2.3 D 3.2.8 PhD Community of Practice ?? 24

T 3.2.1 D 3.2.9 Industry-Education Co-operation 24

Task Deliverable Reporting on… Due

T 3.3.3 D 3.3.3 Prototype of advanced learning platform(ASPL-1) 18

T 3.3.5 D 3.3.5 Evaluation of prototype of ASPL-1 24

T 3.3.6 D 3.3.6 Development of the ontologies to be used in ASPL version 2 30

T 3.3.7 D 3.3.7 Prototype 2 of advanced learning platform(ASPL-2) 36

T 3.3.8 D 3.3.8 Evaluation of Prototype 2 of advanced learning platform(ASPL-2) 42

T 3.3.9 D 3.3.9 Final version of advanced learning platform(ASPL-3) 48

The new JPA: More details

- WP3.1 deliverables for M18 (L3S, 15 min)- D3.1.3: First draft of the statutes

- D3.1.4: Requirements on joint e-learning infrastructure- regarding other NoEs (REWERSE, more?)- regarding cooperation with industry area

prepare for joint session with industry area (session 3 on 24/01)

- Main changes in WP3.2 - Proposed educational events:

- New: cooperation industry-education, PhD network (FUBerlin, 5 min)- As last year: summer school (OU, 5min)

- Proposal: Recording videos for summer school (UniTn, 5 min)- Shared master activities (new WP leader: Enrico Franconi, FUB, 10 min)

- WP3.3: Upcoming activities (OU, 15 min)

General education area meeting

- Discussion: Open issues?

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