1. KnowledgeWeb General Education Area Meeting Hanover, January 2005

2. Agenda (Summary) - Summary and wrap-up: What we have achieved (25 min) - D3.1.2 - Demo of VISWER and ASPL-1 - The new JPA: Our plans for the future (65 min) - Specific focus on M18 deliverables Next session(s): - Discussion: Open issues? (10 min) - WP business: Discuss details (WPs3.1, 3.2, 3.3)

3. Summary and wrap-up: What have we achieved - Preparing for the VISWE statutes: D3.1.2 (L3S, 8min) - Decisions made: - Non-profit association according to German law, located in Germany - Tasks: Host VISWER, support educational events in a flexible way, support shared master as far as possible - Decisions to discuss: How to separate the tasks of the outreach-to-industry portal and VISWER regarding the storage of material useful for learning The membership fees Founding members: Personal vs. institutional membership Incentives for members Steering committee members Technical issues around the general assembly of the association (e.g. possible using video conferencing system etc.) - Educational events and VISWE (like the SWSA -- ISWC?) - Secretary work / notary costs

4. What we have achieved (2) ● VISWER demo (L3S, 7 min) – Open issues: Quality guidelines for providing resources – More content for industry ● ASPL-1 demo (OU, 10 min) ● Very successful summer school 2004 – Not to forget to mention it :-)

5. Main comments from the reviewers & PO (L3S, 10 min) - Need more content for practitioners (we call it industrial education or education for professionals) - Why is VISWER important to have (yet another repository…)?  ‘benefits of VISWER’ web page which I have set up recently according to the discussion on the mailing list - Need quality guidelines ‘KnowledgeWeb certificate’ for the provided content - Regarding format (e.g. non-proprietary like html or pdf) - Regarding content

6. The new JPA: Our plans for the future TaskDeliverableReporting on…Due T 3.1.6D 3.1.3First draft of the VISWE statutes18 T 3.1.4D 3.1.4Requirements on a joint e-learning infrastructure18 T 3.1.3D 3.1.5Published learning resources and usage of learning resources24 T 3.1.6D3.1.6Final version of the VISWE statutes, signed by the founding members.30 TaskDeliverableReporting on…Due T 3.2.4D 3.2.4Joint curriculum for a shared masters program24 T 3.2.5D 3.2.5Procedure for the shared masters program, version 118 T 3.2.2D 3.2.6Summer school 200524 T 3.2.5D 3.2.7Procedure for the shared masters program version 230 T 3.2.3D 3.2.8PhD Community of Practice ??24 T 3.2.1D 3.2.9Industry-Education Co-operation24 TaskDeliverableReporting on…Due T 3.3.3D 3.3.3Prototype of advanced learning platform(ASPL-1)18 T 3.3.5D 3.3.5Evaluation of prototype of ASPL-124 T 3.3.6D 3.3.6Development of the ontologies to be used in ASPL version 230 T 3.3.7D 3.3.7Prototype 2 of advanced learning platform(ASPL-2)36 T 3.3.8D 3.3.8Evaluation of Prototype 2 of advanced learning platform(ASPL-2)42 T 3.3.9D 3.3.9Final version of advanced learning platform(ASPL-3)48

7. The new JPA: More details - WP3.1 deliverables for M18 (L3S, 15 min) - D3.1.3: First draft of the statutes - D3.1.4: Requirements on joint e-learning infrastructure - regarding other NoEs (REWERSE, more?) - regarding cooperation with industry area  prepare for joint session with industry area (session 3 on 24/01) - Main changes in WP3.2 - Proposed educational events: - New: cooperation industry-education, PhD network (FUBerlin, 5 min) - As last year: summer school (OU, 5min) - Proposal: Recording videos for summer school (UniTn, 5 min) - Shared master activities (new WP leader: Enrico Franconi, FUB, 10 min) - WP3.3: Upcoming activities (OU, 15 min)

8. General education area meeting - Discussion: Open issues?

9. An Ad at the end :-) ● Workshop: Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems – In conjunction with the 14 th WWW conference ● May,10th 2005, Chiba, Japan ● http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/interoperability.html