Events

Making Learning Technology Standards Workshop
Produzir normas para as tecnologias de aprendizagem /
Making Learning Technology Standards
8 March 2010, Lisbon
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Visit us at BETT 2010!
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.
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ASPECT Workshop in Vigo
Design, use and adoption of standards Vigo, Spain - From 14/12/2009 to 14/12/2009
The ASPECT Best Practice Network organised a regional workshop in Spain next December 14. This workshop was held in conjunction with the first conference "Fomento e Innovación con Nuevas Tecnologías en la Docencia de la Ingeniería".
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Technical Course on the "Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgLRs)"
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. The course is targeted to technical personnel of existing/operating AgLRs or of organizations/initiatives producing learning resources of rural interest (interested in setting up an AgLR). A first version of the programme can be found online here.

SE@M 2009 - Making Content Standards Work for You!
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. One day of the workshop will be especially aimed at publishers and professionals with the objective to understand how existing and emerging standards can best be applied and combined to improve content interoperability and how to test the compliance of contents against a range of standards.
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ASPECT Meeting in Budapest 21-23 September 2009
On 21-22 and 23 September 2009, project partners will gather for the 3rd Consortium meeting of the ASPECT project.
The event will be hosted by EDUCATIO in Budapest at Kempelen Farkas Student Information and Resource Centre.
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ASPECT Technical Workshop on SQI-OAI, Leuven, 10-11 March 2009
The goal of this 2-day workshop is to provide developers of learning content, tools and repositories with technical expertise necessary to enable them to connect to the ASPECT technical infrastructure. We will start by introducing both OAI-PMH and SQI to delegates as enabling standards in this field. Next, we will assist participants in implementing these standards on top of their existing repository or learning platform.
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Aspect-iCoper-CEN/ISSS WSLT joint workshop on publish interoperability, Vigo, 3 March 2009
The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies has initiated work on standardising a Simple Publishing Interface for Learning Object Repositories. The objective is to develop a practical approach towards interoperability between repositories for learning and applications that consume or produce educational materials. Examples of repositories for learning are educational brokers, knowledge pools, institutional repositories, streaming video servers, etc.
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ASPECT briefing at the BETT Show, London, 14 January 2009
At the BETT Show in London, a briefing on learning content standards and specifications has been organised by ASPECT and Cambridge University Press (CUP) which will begin by explaining how the Global Grid for Learning from CUP is participating in the project. The aim is particularly to outline how ASPECT is developing best practice approaches to implementing Digital Rights Management, open licensing schemes such as Creative Commons and content standards such as SCORM and the new Common Cartridge specification.
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