EUN Learning Resource
Exchange
http://lre.eun.org
David Massart
April 7, 2009

Building a Learning Resource Exchange
CELEBRATE
demonstration project
http://lre.eun.org
CALIBRATE
connecting repositories
MELT
content enrichment
emapps iClass
ASPECT
content standards
LRE

LRE Vision
• LRE is a servicefor MoE that is driven by MoE
and involves private sector partners
http://lre.eun.org
• 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

http://lreforschools.eun.org
http://lre.eun.org

LRE Vision
• It isNOT a centralised portal…
http://lre.eun.org
• But a frameworkthat supports semantic
and technical interoperability of content
repositories

http://lre.eun.org

LRE Added Value
• MoE sharing resources that ‘travel well’
http://lre.eun.org
• Federated search from within national portals
(Scoilnet)
• An open architecture that MoE can implement
locally
• Social tagging and curriculum mapping tools
• LRE application profile, multilingual
thesaurus, automatic metadata generation

LRE global alliances
http://lre.eun.org
There is a shared vision with other global
players - OER Commons..GLOBE..

Why join the LRE?
The most important Europe-wide (and potential
http://lre.eun.org
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

Content partner benefits
• Reach a global audience with your content
• LOM-based application profile for schools
http://lre.eun.org
• 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

How to Join?
• One-to-one meetings to discover your requirements
http://lre.eun.org
• Send us an example of your metadata
• Send staff to a LRE technical workshop
• Maybe a focused workshop for a group of cultural
heritage organisations, science centres….?

Flexible technical solutions
• Connect a repository, portal or VLE to the
federation
http://lre.eun.org
• Let the LRE harvest your metadata using
OAI-PMH
• ‘mass upload’ of your metadata - just
complete an Excel spreadsheet

Associate Partners
• Promethean
http://lre.eun.org
• Flipcharts created by
teachers
• Using Promethean
activity templates with
LRE resources

Associate Partners
• Cité des sciences et de
l’industrie
http://lre.eun.org
• Resources for computer
studies
• Some provided with
Creative Commons
licenses

Associate Partners
• Intel Teach Advanced
Online & Collaborative
http://lre.eun.org
• Addressing some
technical integration
issues

Associate Partners
• Dunelm e-Learning
http://lre.eun.org
• Small commercial UK
content developer
• Providing SCORM learning
objects
• Showcasing some of these
with CC licenses on the
LRE

Commercial content?
Access Controlin
•
http://lre.eun.org
ASPECT project
SCRAN
•
Global Grid for Learning
•
European Educational
•
Publishers Group - Jan.
2009

Involving New Partners
http://lre.eun.org
YOU?

http://lre.eun.org
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