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Building a Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for Schools
| What | European Schoolnet/MELT Associate partner meeting OER Commons Presentation |
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| When |
2007-11-09 from 09:00 to 18:00 |
| Where | Diamant Centre, Brussels, Belgium |
| Attendees | Amee Evans Godwin, ISKME |
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ISKME will present the OER Commons project as one of the first non-European partner projects of European Schoolnet/MELT and an active participant in the LRE federated broker system for shared educational resources called FIRE.
MELT is a Content Enrichment project supported by the European Commission's eContentplus Programme. Coordinated by European Schoolnet, it brings together 18 public and private sector content partners, including 12 Ministries of Education, the ARIADNE Foundation and commercial publishers such as Cambridge-Hitachi and Skolavefurinn.
The project’s aim is to provide a scalable and cost-effective solution for European content providers faced with the challenge of creating more and better metadata. It will also play an important role in helping European Schoolnet and its partners to launch a pan-European Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for schools.
In particular, the project will enrich nearly 40,000 learning resources and 125,000 learning assets using three different approaches:
• Some MELT content will be enriched with metadata by expert or trained indexers;
• Teachers will be provided with 'folksonomy' and 'social tagging' tools so that they can add their own metadata to MELT content they have used;
• New frameworks for automatic metadata generation will be used to enrich MELT content.
MELT LRE Associate Partners
As well as providing a critical mass of content themselves, MELT partners will exploit existing contacts with educational bodies, cultural organisations, broadcasters and both non-profit and commercial educational content developers in order to bring additional content into the project that can be enriched with new metadata.
These organisations will be invited to become MELT LRE Associate Partners and to attend a seminar in Brussels on 9 November 2007 in order to discover how they can benefit from working with the project. Attendance at this seminar is free of charge and is by invitation only (max 100 places). A detailed agenda for the event will be circulated shortly.