SE@M 2010 - Making content standards work for you!
27-28 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain
SE@M 2010, the 4th International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials 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.
Description
Over the last fifteen years, considerable effort has been spent on the development of standards and specifications for making e-learning systems, repositories, and content interoperable. These efforts have led to significant improvements in the arena of technical interoperability enabling the emergence and expansion of successful federations and alliances of learning object repositories such as LRE, ARIADNE, GLOBE, etc. Building blocks for this success have been the creation, evolution and adoption of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), and the Simple Query Interface (SQI). More recent developments in this field include the definition of a Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) and the ongoing work in IMS Global Learning Consortium on the Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE) specification to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. The development of best practices (for example by projects like ASPECT and ICOPER), enabling more efficient use of these standards and specifications, has also proven instrumental in the successes of current learning content retrieval infrastructures.
Given the significant improvements in the technical infrastructures allowing for the exchange of learning objects and metadata, attention of domain experts is now increasingly turning to the development and implementation of solutions to enhance semantic interoperability. There is also a need to better optimize techniques for the management of controlled vocabularies and to guarantee interoperability between different application profiles. A series of other issues are yet to be resolved including best-practices and tools for access control to learning resources and issues of privacy and data protection in the context of e-learning.
To further developments in this field, the main goal of this international workshop is to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and share the latest advances in the state of the art and practices for exchanging and describing learning content. This year's workshop will include presentations of both long and short refereed papers as well as panel discussions, keynotes and demonstrations.
The workshop is a unique opportunity to explore theoretical aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches to learning resources discovery and exchange. A special focus will be put on the latest outcomes of the ASPECT project.
It is organised in coordination with EC-TEL 2010, 28 September-1 October 2010.
Topics of interest
Include but are not limited to:
Infrastructures for learning resource discovery and exchange
Metadata Management
Discovering content
Access Control vs. Open
Exchanging content
Important dates
Organisers
Programme committee