1. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org The importance of standards and interoperability for OER Frans Van Assche Senior Manager Standards & Interoperability (EUN) Vice-Chair CEN/ISSS WSLT Director European IMS Network

2. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Success factors of OER Success depends on –Sufficient demand –Sufficient supply –Adequate sharing It fails –If nobody wants OER –If nobody provides OER –If demand and supply can’t meet

3. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Demand Still some work to do on –Proper use of OER –New pedagogies –Understanding new learning and teaching patterns and settings –Training Needs are different in different sectors

4. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Supply Two basic models: institutional & community based Institutional, typically –HE: Universities –Schools: often MoEs, school communities –Training: industry Community based, building on what users are doing anyway –HE: creating courses, learning assets –Schools: lesson plans, assessments, learning assets –Training: often depends on sectorial initiatives

5. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Create Discovery Search Soc. Recommend. Agent based Integrate Evaluate Choose Get Reference or LO Adapt & Reuse Disaggregate Aggregate Modify the content Modify the sequence Use/PlayIntegrate Local Delete Retract Expose Describe Resolution Interoperability in OER Activities

6. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Key interoperability questions What is the use of OER if it is too hard to integrate it in my own technical environment or I can’t use it in my LMS? if it is too hard to adapt it (although I’m allowed to). What travels well? if it is too hard to get it if I don’t know whether and how I could use it if I have no means to evaluate it if I can’t find it if I can’t share it and expose it even if I wan’t to

7. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Create Discovery Search Soc. Recommend. Agent based Integrate Evaluate Choose Get Reference or LO Adapt & Reuse Disaggregate Aggregate Modify the content Modify the sequence Use/PlayIntegrate Local Delete Retract Expose Describe Resolution Metadata: why

8. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Create Discovery Search Soc. Recommend. Agent based Integrate Evaluate Choose Get Reference or LO Adapt & Reuse Disaggregate Aggregate Modify the content Modify the sequence Use/PlayIntegrate Local Delete Retract Expose Describe Resolution Trained indexers Casual indexers (Semi) automatic Open Metadata for Educational Resources Typed and non typed Folksonomies Extraction Inference Usage observation Translation

9. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Interoperability & Semiotics Physical Empirical Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic Social Technical Semantic Political

10. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Users Physical Empirical Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic Social Technical Semantic Political

11. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org System Developers Physical Empirical Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic Social Technical Semantic Political

12. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org “Content” Developers Physical Empirical Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic Social Technical Semantic Political

13. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Policy Makers Physical Empirical Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic Social Technical Semantic Political

14. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Researchers Physical Empirical Syntactic Semantic Pragmatic Social Technical Semantic Political

15. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Experiences from the European Schoolnet

16. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Learning Resource Exchange For Schools By 2008 (could be 4Q 2007) 15 MoE will be connected in a network of OER repositories Providing about 40,000 structured learning objects and about 100,000 learning assets All with a Creative Commons license Tagged by a mix of experienced indexers, social tagging, and automatic tagging; at least 50,000 in more than one language

17. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Technical Organising the supply –Harvesting using OAI-PMH –Federated search using SQI. Based on JMS and allowing asynchronous search in a fully heterogeneous environment –Open portal public for search registration required for contributions –Mass upload (a simpler version of harvesting) Less effort is needed –6 person months in 2004 –6 person days in 2007

18. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Semantic Use of IEEE LOM European Schoolnet created a LOM Application Profile for schools in Europe in 2003. Version 2.2, shared by 15 MoE will become available end of March 2007. It has been used as a basis for other APs Multilingual vocabularies. Multilingual thesaurus 1200 terms in 15 languages Creative Commons license implemented early 2005 –Distinction should be made between tagging and search –Teachers use CC incorrectly when tagging Folksonomies –Good initial response (building on what teachers are doing anyway) –Issues: typed vs non-typed; multi-linguality

19. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org Political Exchanging learning resources is on our political agenda since 2003. Only in 2006 first real results Slowly making progress but it is accelerating Adoption of –Same AP including DRM –Same exchange strategies Alliances and agreements –ARIADNE/GLOBE –Standardisation bodies and consortia CEN/ISSS IMS

20. MINERVA Cluster meeting – 5 March 2007 http://life.eun.org lre.eun.org frans.van.assche@eun.org Thank you