The document discusses the European Schoolnet's (EUN) efforts to build a Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) to improve access and reuse of educational content across Europe. It provides an overview of several related projects undertaken by EUN since 2002 to develop the LRE, including the CELEBRATE, CALIBRATE, and MELT projects. It describes the vision and goals of the LRE, which aims to federate educational content repositories across Europe through common technical and semantic standards to allow for interoperability and discovery of resources. The ASPECT project, launched in 2008, continues this work by assessing standards implementation and developing best practices for content exchange.

1. David Massart, EUN Nov 2, 2009 Budapest, Hungary Building a Learning Resource Exchange for Schools

2. What is European Schoolnet (EUN)? Network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe founded in 1997 Dedicated to Supporting schools in bringing about the best use of technology in learning Promote the European dimension in schools and education Improving and raising the quality of education in Europe

3. Range of projects and services School Validation ICT policies and practice Insight PortalPIC SchoolInnovationInternetSafety Peer LearningICT Cluster … eTwinning CELEBRATE Xplora EUN Activities CALIBRATE Xperimania MELT Interoperability andcontent exchange School networkingand services LIFE LRE ASPECT eLearning Awards Spring Day DevelopmentYouthPrize

4. Building a Learning Resource Exchange CELEBRATE demonstration project 2002- 2004 CALIBRATE connecting repositories 2005-2007 MELT content enrichment 2006-2009 emapps iClass ASPECT content standards 2008-2011 LRE 2008…

6. Content that ‘travels well’

7. Content that ‘travels well’?

8. Content that ‘travels well’??

9. Content that ‘travels well’???

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Learning Resource Exchange An infrastructure for: Federating applications/platforms that provide learning resources to schools (repositories, learning platforms, authoring environments) Providing seamless access to K-12 resources to applications that consume these (portals, VLEs)

15. 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

16. Not a Centralized Portal LRE search from within a national portal already implemented (Scoilnet) LRE widget that can be integrated in other applications - eTwinning

17. 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

19. plus Czech Republic repository April 2009 - 17 MoE

20. plus France and Portugal in ASPECT project - 2009 - 19 MoEMoE LRE Working Group defining strategy

21. Why work with EUN? “We want to bridge the gap between community publishers and professional publishers.” John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press “

22. Content partner benefits Reach aglobal 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

23. LRE global alliances There is a shared vision with other global players - OER Commons..GLOBE..

24. Some LRE Associate Partners

25. 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

26. http://lre.eun.org

27. 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...

28. ASPECT Rationale The 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

29. 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

30. 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

32. Vocabulary: XVD, VDEX, ZTHES, SKOS

33. Protocol: SQI, SPI, SRU/SRW, OAI-PMH

34. Query Language: CQL, PLQL, LRE-QL

35. Registry: CORDRA, ADL RegistryContent discovery

37. Identifier: Handle System, DOI

38. Access Control:Creative Commons, IMS Common Cartridge, LRE DRM Content use

39. Content discovery Implementation of best practice Best practices Content use

40. Content discovery School pilots Implementation of best practice Best practices Content use

41. WP4 Dissemination WP2 Content discovery WP5 WP6 School pilots Implementation of best practice Best practices WP3 Content use WP7 Validation & Quality Insurance

42. http://aspect-project.org

43. Further Information http://celebrate.eun.org http://calibrate.eun.org http://info.melt-project.eu http://aspect-project.org http://lre.eun.org http://lreforschools.eun.org david.massart@eun.org