BETT Show 2010: London on 13 January 2010, 14.00-16.00. The ASPECT Best Practice Network is organising a workshop during the BETT Show in London on 13 January 2010 to explore the benefits of learning technology standards for discovering, creating, packaging, sharing and using educational content.

If you are a publisher, an educational tools' provider or learning professional creating your own resources, this workshop will provide you with an understanding of some of the key technology standards that will facilitate and improve the impact of your work.

The first ASPECT Newsletter (December 2009) has been published.

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A Technical Course on the "Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgLRs)" will take place during November 2nd-5th, 2009. The Course is realised by the cooperation of two eContentplus projects (Organic.Edunet and ASPECT) and the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It will be hosted at the FAO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR), in Budapest, Hungary.

SE@M 2009, the 3rd international workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials Budapest, Hotel Benczúr, 4-5 November 2009, aims at bringing together researchers and professionals working with learning resources —publishers of learning resources and technologies, managers of learning infrastructures and learning resource repositories, learning professionals and practitioners.

To assist stakeholders involved in applying standards and specifications for learning technologies, ASPECT is providing a new set of tools and support services that will facilitate the interoperability of learning content.

Tools developed in the project can be accessed below. Later this year, the project will also launch a Service Centre that provides the following services:

European Schoolnet is pleased to announce that its Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for schools received an IMS Learning Impact 2009 Leadership Award in Barcelona on 13 May in the category for Best Cross-National Solution

David Massart, European Schoolnet’s Senior Manager for IT Research & Development, welcomed the award and said, “European Schoolnet is delighted to receive this recognition from IMS for the work we have been doing in order to expose content in the LRE federation that ‘travels well’ and that can cross national and linguistic borders.”

Memorandum of Understanding promises to enhance the cooperation in establishing best practice network for Common Cartridge and Learning Object Discovery and Exchange for the K-12 Schools segment

Long Beach, California, Lake Mary, Florida, USA and Brussels, Belgium – 12 February 2009 – The nonprofit IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) and European Schoolnet, on behalf of the European Union funded ASPECT project, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the IMS GLC Special Summit on Next-Generation Digital Learning & Content.

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