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Jim Ayre

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MoE LRE Partners

• LRE is a service for MoE that is driven by MoE and involves private sector partners

• Initial LRE partners inc. partners in the CALIBRATE and MELT projects - 16 Ministries of Education in Europe:

– Austria, Belgium (Flemish community), Region of Catalonia (Spain), Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

– plus France and Portugal in ASPECT project - 18 MoE!

• New MoE LRE Working Group in 2008 defining strategy

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Other LRE Partners in EUN projects

• ARIADNE Foundation - MELT and ASPECT

• Cambridge-Hitachi (UK) and Skolavefurinn (IS) - MELT

• Cambridge University Press (UK), EduCentrum (BE), Open University (UK), Siveco (RO), Young Digital Planet (PL) - ASPECT

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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

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LRE global alliances

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

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Why work with EUN?

“We want to bridge the gap between community publishers and professional publishers.”John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press

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Content partner benefits

• Reach a global audience with your content• LOM-based 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• Teacher and learner communities around your content

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How to Join?• One-to-one meetings to discover your

requirements

• 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….?

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Flexible technical solutions

• Connect a repository, portal or VLE to the federation

• Let the LRE harvest your metadata using OAI-PMH

• ‘mass upload’ of your metadata - just complete an Excel spreadsheet

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Associate Partners

• Promethean

• Flipcharts created by teachers

• Using Promethean activity templates with LRE resources

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Associate Partners

• Cité des sciences et de l’industrie

• Resources for computer studies

• Some provided with Creative Commons licenses

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Associate Partners

• Intel Teach Advanced Online & Collaborative

• Addressing some technical integration issues

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Associate Partners

• Dunelm e-Learning

• Small commercial UK content developer

• Providing SCORM learning objects

• Showcasing some of these with CC licenses on the LRE

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Commercial content?

• DRM in ASPECT project

• SCRAN

• Global Grid for Learning

• European Educational Publishers Group - Jan. 2009

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