ASPECT News and Events

	Webinar: Teachers’ use of IMS Common Cartridge, 13 July 2010 This webinar will present the results of the ASPECT Summer School and explain why Common Cartridge seem particularly well-suited to address teachers’ needs. The webinar speakers are Dr. Àgueda Gras-Velázquez (European Schoolnet) and Kati Clements (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). The webinar takes place on 13 July 2010, 10AM EDT (4PM CET). Read more...
	ASPECT workshop at CoLos Summer School June 2010 The ASPECT project and its findings were presented in Slovenia on 28 June 2010 in the framework of Colos Summer School, which is a traditional event for teachers in Slovenia. The Summer School lasted for 3 days, first day being dedicated to the ASPECT Workshop. The presentations were recorded and are now available online. Read more...
	ASPECT LRE Technical & Semantic Interoperability Workshop - Presentations available! The European Schoolnet's Learning Resource Exchange and the ASPECT Best Practice Network organised a two-day workshop at the EUN Office in Brussels on 15 and 16 June 2010. Read here the agenda and download the presentations! Read more...
	Teacher interviews at ASPECT Summer School In May 2010, the ASPECT Summer School gathered 40 teachers from across Europe to learn about content packaging and integration of resources into learning platforms. We interviewed several teachers to know what they think about content standards, digital learning resources and using these in their day-to-day teaching. Find out here what they said! Read more...
	Teachers and content packaging standards. Initial conclusions from the ASPECT evaluation The ASPECT project has organised three teacher workshops for a group of 40 mathematics and science teachers from Belgium (Flanders), Lithuania, Romania and Portugal. All three workshops have combined straight-forward assignments with more free-browsing activities in order to obtain first-hand, direct feedback from the teachers. This article presents some of the preliminary findings of the third workshop held in Lisbon in May 2010. Read more...
	ASPECT Awards: Awarding Learning Technology Standards Adoption In order to celebrate the achievements of all those who have already adopted Learning Technology Standards, and encourage further adoption, individuals and organisations will have the opportunity to apply for the ASPECT Award. The award criteria take into account Licensing, Metadata and Delivery. Read more...
	SE@M’10 - Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials SE@M 2010, the 4th international workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials, Barcelona, 27-28 September 2010, 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. SE@M 2010 is organized in coordination with EC-TEL 2010 28 September – 1 October 2010. Read more...