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IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (LTTC)
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Centre for educational technology interoperability standards (CETIS)
The Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS) represents UK Higher and Further Education on international educational standards initiatives including:
The IMS Global Learning Consortium, developing specifications for learning technology interoperability including metadata, content management, enterprise systems, learner information and profiling, accessibility, question and tests.
PROMETEUS, a European Commission initiative to gather requirements for learning technology standards and involving a large number of signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in this effort.
CEN/ISSS, a European standardisation body mandated to develop a work programme for learning technology standards development.
IEEE, the international standards body now with a sub committee for learning technology
ISO, the International Standards Organisation, now addressing learning technology standards
CETIS advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards, including the Further Education Managed Learning Environment Programme.
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EdNA Online. Education Network Australia
EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments.
As an information service, EdNA Online provides two key functions:
A directory about education and training in Australia.
A database of web-based resources useful for teaching and learning.
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CEN/ISS Online Vocabulary Repository
Group Proyect from CEN/ISS Learning Technologies Workshop. CEN European Committee for Standardization and ISSS Information Society Standardization System.
The objective of this project group is to collect and organise a register of vocabularies, taxonomies, and thesauri relevant to a European learning society, via an on-line repository.
This will benefit interoperability between European learning technology systems and services of metadata implementations using standardised taxonomies and vocabularies.
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LON. Learning Objects Network, Inc.
Learning Objects Network is the infrastructure to manage the secure exchange of high-value learning objects across the Internet. By creating an efficient marketplace for the identification, acquisition, purchase and reuse of online business knowledge, eLearning content, media assets, and other high value content objects, a Learning Objects Network enables an object-oriented knowledge management layer for the Internet.
The LON infrastructure consists of families of applications or frameworks that provide all the needed services. These frameworks include digital content management, identification, search and delivery, security and content protection, digital rights management and payment.
Services: A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registry service.
Professional services, consulting and workshops designed to assist companies in adopting learning object content strategies and in achieving conformance to SCORM learning object specifications.
Network services enabling the secure publishing and reuse of SCORM-conformant learning objects within an enterprise on private networks or between content creators and users across the Internet.
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Learning Circuits ASTD Online magazine
American Society for Training and Development(ASTD) is the world's largest professional association in the field of workplace learning and performance.
ASTD's leaders and members are both internal and external practitioners, working in multinational corporations, small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, and not-for-profit organizations.
In the Learning Circuits ASTD Online magazine are published Case studies, industry trends, and guidance on using learning technologies.
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Web-conferencing central
Low cost web-conferencing and teleconferencing for sharing your PC screen in eLearing and online training, web meetings, technical support and software demostrations.
Web Conferencing Central gives you a reliable and affordable way to share applications, documents, presentations with one or many meeting partners. With this system, your viewers see with clarity
what you display on your desktop and alternatively, you can see what they display on theirs.
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IMS Global Learning Consortium
IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) is developing and promoting open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities such as locating and using educational content, tracking learner progress, reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records between administrative systems.
IMS has two key goals: defining the technical specifications for interoperability of applications and services in distributed learning, and supporting the incorporation of the IMS specifications into products and services worldwide. IMS endeavors to promote the widespread adoption of specifications that will allow distributed learning environments and content from multiple authors to work together (in technical parlance, "interoperate").
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ADL Advanced Distributed Learning
The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), is a collaborative
effort between government, industry and academia to establish a new distributed learning environment that permits the interoperability of learning tools and course content on a global scale. ADL's vision is to provide access to the highest quality education and training, tailored to individual needs, delivered cost-effectively anywhere and anytime.
The ADL Resource Center provides the ADL Community with timely and relevant information. It serves as a mechanism for sharing and exchanging the latest briefings, studies, reports, presentations and more.
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Elena Project
The objective of this IST Project is to demonstrate the feasibility of smart spaces for learning. Smart learning spaces are defined as educational service mediators, which allow the consumption of heterogeneous learning services via assessment tools, learning management systems, educational (meta) repositories and live delivery systems such as video conferencing systems. The central design element of the ELENA smart learning space is a dynamic learner profile, which includes learning history, learner specific information and learning goals. Interconnecting learning services in a smart learning space provides an advantage for all learners by offering them the choice amongst a variety of knowledge sources. Thus it is easier for a learner to achieve his/her personal learning goals.
ELENA prepares the grounds for the rise of educational service markets and new service value chains, which will allow institutions to treat the performance of educational services as a make-or-buy decision.
Objectives
1 Analysis of existing standards for modelling learning-relevant data beyond learning objects and provision of recommendations for their further development.
2 Development of schemas describing educational services such as educational activities, learning delivery, teaching assessment and learner assessment.
3 Design and implementation of a smart space for learning that integrates heterogeneous services such as assessment services, content brokerage, learning management and human resources management.
4 Testing the applicability of smart spaces in the field of education and training from a business and organizational perspective and draw conclusions for the design of intelligent environments in this field.
5 Development of best practice guidelines for deploying smart learning spaces from an organizational, technological and pedagogical perspective.
ELENA will set up an operational learning services network based on an interoperable communication infrastructure between heterogeneous peers and devices. This new smart learning space is most beneficial for learners since it opens a much wider spectrum of learning possibilities.
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CETIS Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards
The Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards
(CETIS) represents UK Higher and Further Education on international educational standards initiatives including:
The IMS Global Learning Consortium, developing specifications for learning technology interoperability including metadata, content management, enterprise systems, learner information and profiling, accessibility, question and tests.
PROMETEUS, a European Commission initiative to gather requirements for learning technology standards and involving a large number of signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate in this effort.
CEN/ISSS, a European standardisation body mandated to develop a work programme for learning technology standards development.
IEEE, the international standards body now with a sub committee for learning technology
ISO, the International Standards Organisation, now addressing learning technology standards.
CETIS advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards, including the Further Education Managed Learning Environment Programme.
Categories: Distance and web learning, Multimedia and hypermedia, Intelligent tutoring, Cooperative learning, E-books -
The Knowledge Management Research Group
The Knowledge Management Research Group at CID (Centre for User Oriented IT Design) from
Department for Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA) of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
The Knowledge Management Research Group engages in research in several different fields.
The underlying motivation for their work is a desire to create new and powerful ways to structure and communicate information, both in educational, industrial and administrative settings.
The KMR group has designed a structured information architecture called a knowledge manifold and invented a new type of knowledge management tool, called a concept browser, in order to effectively organize, explore and present the information content of such knowledge manifolds. We have also developed a conceptual modeling technique called ULM (Unified Language Modeling) that supports this process by enabling the visual presentation (in the form of a so called context-map) of any kind of verbally formulated information.
During the last 3 years, the KMR group has developed a first prototype of a concept browser, called Conzilla, which has attracted widespread attention, both on the national and international level, and has been presented at several national and international conferences.
While conforming to emerging international standards for information exchange and e-learning, such as XML, RDF and IMS, Conzilla combines conceptual modeling with annotated access to multi-media based archives in a novel way. This makes Conzilla a powerful platform for any kind of knowledge management system, especially within such fields as e-learning, e-commerce and e-administration.
Categories: Distance and web learning, Multimedia and hypermedia, Intelligent tutoring, Cooperative learning, Other
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For questions on LTTC, please contact
Dr Kinshuk, Chair, LTTC. Phone: (+64) 6 350 5799 Ext 2090
For questions on LTTC web site, please contact
Dr Paloma Díaz, Vice Chair for Web Resources. Phone: (+34) 91 624 94 56
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