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David Massart, EUN

Building an Open Global Learning Infrastructure

Berlin, Germany - Dec. 3, 2008

Learning Resource Exchange for Schools:

Current Infrastructure & Issues

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OutlineGlossaryAn infrastructure for exchanging learning

resources– Brief history– Collecting metadata– Exposing learning resources

Where does it hurt?– Metadata management– Sharing mine and reusing yours (it’s not technical)

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Glossary

Learning Resource:

Anything digital used for learning and/or teaching

Learning Resource Metadata:

Machine-readable description of learning resources

Learning Resource Repository:

Software system for managing learning resources and/or their metadata

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Learning Resource Exchange

An infrastructure for

1. Federating applications that provide learning resources (e.g.,  learning resource repositories, authoring tools)

2. Offering a seamless access to these resources to educational applications that consume them (e.g., educational portals, VLEs)

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A Brief History of the LREETB: Dublin Core, NNTP => LRE Thesaurus CELEBRATE: LOM, Brokerage System (JMS +

WS) => Simple Query Interface (SQI) + LRE Application Profile (LRE AP)

FIRE: LOM, SQI Brokerage System => S2QLCALIBRATE: LRE AP, SQI + OAI-PMH Brokerage

System, S2QL => PLQL MELT: Service-Oriented Architecture => >150,000

open resources + Metadata

ASPECT: Much more to come

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By All Means:Collecting Metadata

(Federated) search: SQI, SRUHarvesting: OAI-PMHPublishing: SWORD, SPIMass upload: Excel sheets

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By All Means:Exposing Learning Resources

Search: SQI, SRUHarvesting: OAI-PMHIndex pushingSyndication: Atom/RSS

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Where Does It Hurt?Metadata & resource managementSharing my resources is easy butReusing yours is a pain!

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Metadata Lifecycle & Identity

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Today: Getting Connected is EasyConnecting a repository to the LRE

– A matter of days– Large choice of connection type (search,

harvesting, push, etc.)

Searching the LRE– Fast and reliable– Large choice of access method (search, etc.)

But …

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Serving K-12: Specific Requirements

User-generated content ??

Resource description requirements– Explicit license– Age range– Language– Learning resource type

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By The Way, I’m alsoLooking for new LRE partners - http://lre.eun.org

Co-chair of IMS LODE - http://imsglobal.org/lode.html

Coordinator of the ASPECT project - http://aspect-project.org

Involved in the SPI group - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/publishinterop/

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