1. Learning Resource Exchange for schools http://lreforschools.eun.org Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Conventional search From teachers to teachers Tags in multiple languages Ratings and comments by the European Commissions eContentplus Programme

2. LRE Connections : content connecting people across-borders Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Austria Hungary Estonia Belgium Finland Resource that Travels well

3. LRE Connections : Tags connect resources Visualisation on ManyEyes Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Resources with user tag interactive Tag interactive

4. LRE Connections : Tags connect resource from different providers Visualisation on ManyEyes Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Resource provider Tag optics OERCommons EUN

5. LRE Connections : Tags connected to thesaurus descriptors Visualisation on ManyEyes Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Thesaurus term Tags

6. LRE Connections create a social search ecology - 16% of actions contribute, 84% consume (search, play) - Social Information Retreival makes users more efficient (Vuorikari, Koper: Ecology of social search for learning resources, submitted ) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

7. Are tags from Mars and descriptors from Venus? - MELT study on the ecology of educational resource metadata - Overlap in tags and descriptors even up to 50% (Vuorikari, Sillaots, Panzavolta, Koper, submitted ) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

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• Why join Learning Resource Exchange? A federation for open educational resources with CC license by European educational authorities, and beyond There is a shared vision with other global players - OER Commons..GLOBE.. .

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9. Why join Learning Resource Exchange? Associated partners We want to bridge the gap between community publishers and professional publishers. John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press

10. LRE Infrastructure - Federates systems that provide learning resources - Technical and semantic interoperability (Towards a Pan-European Learning Resource Infrastructure, Massart, D. 2009) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

11. LRE Connections : and beoynd! These underlying connections between users, resources, tags and repositories can further be used for better Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 SIRTEL'09 call out soon!

12. EUN Connections : eTwinning school collaboration - more than 50 k teachers signed up at etwinning.net Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

13. EUN Connections : eTwinning school collaboration - more than 50 k teachers signed up at etwinning.net Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

14. EUN Connections : eTwinning school collaboration - more than 50 k teachers signed up at etwinning.net Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

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• 31 Ministries of Education (MoE) in Europe

• Created in 1997 for K-12

• Major European education portals for learning resources, collaboration and skills

• Leads the way in bringing about change in schooling through the use of new technology

European Schoolnet

16. European Schoolnets history with digital learning resources

• Since 1999 work on sharing resources with Ministries of Education in Europe

• Interoperability

• • Technical infrastructure

• • Semantic: metadata and multilingual controlled vocabularies (Thesaurus in 17 languages)

Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

17. Learning Resource Exchange Riina Vuorikari 3/3/2009

18. social bookmarks Metadata LOM tags folksonomy social tagging multi-linguality social classification thanks ! for your attention learning resources user communities discover resources and items questions ? teachers social navigation http://delicious.com/vuorikari/OERmonterey paths http://lreforschools.eun.org