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