First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE’07)

The LODE’07 workshop will be held on September 18, 2007 in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

Although the use of learning (content) management systems is becoming common in most educational organizations and the number of educational resources available online, for free or by subscription, is huge, most of these resources are hidden in repositories and cannot be easily found, which hampers their potential use and reuse.The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working at unlocking the educational content hidden in repositories and facilitating the retrieval and exchange of this content. The workshop aims at providing an international forum to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the issues and innovative approaches in the field.

PROGRAM

Session 1: Federations of Learning Resources

• Unifying Learning Object Repositories in MACE
• Creation of Lithuanian Digital Library of Educational Resources and Services: the Hypothesis, Contemporary Practice, and Future Objectives
• The Everlasting Dawn of Educational Brokers: A Search for Key Design Principles

Session 2: Repository Infrastructures

• Learning Resource Referencing, Search and Aggregation At the eLearning System Level
• Binding the Simple Query Interface
• Network analysis of repositories

Session 3: Search and Retrieval of Learning Resources

• Improving Retrieval of Reusable Learning Resources by Estimating Adaptation Effort
• Profiled Search Methods for e-Learning Systems

Session 4: Rich description of resources

• Categorizing Learning Objects Based On Wikipedia as Substitute Corpus
• An Information Architecture for Validating Courseware
• Linking Content to Curricula by using Competencies
• Writing to be read: readability indices for Open Educational Resources

ORGANISERS

David Massart and Jean-Noël Colin, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Kerry Blinco, DEST, Australia
• Erik Duval, KUL, Belgium
• Mike Halm, PennState University, USA
• Marek Hatala, SFU, Canada
• Manuel Kolp, UCL, Belgium
• Robert Kristofl, BMBWK, Austria
• Fran ois Magnan, Teluq, Canada
• Jon Mason, InterCog, Australia
• Martin Morrey, Intrallect, UK
• Gilbert Paquette, Teluq, Canada
• Fredrik Paulsson, Umea University, Sweden
• Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH, Poland
• Alain Pirotte, UCL, Belgium
• Daniel Rehak, University of Memphis, USA
• Griff Richards, SFU, Canada
• Bernd Simon, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria
• James Simon, Sun Microsystems, USA
• Stefaan Ternier, KUL, Belgium
• Tsuneo Yamada, NIME, Japan