European Schoolnet is pleased to announce that its Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for schools received an IMS Learning Impact 2009 Leadership Award in Barcelona on 13 May in the category for Best Cross-National Solution

Memorandum of Understanding promises to enhance the cooperation in establishing best practice network for Common Cartridge and Learning Object Discovery and Exchange for the K-12 Schools segment

Long Beach, California, Lake Mary, Florida, USA and Brussels, Belgium – 12 February 2009 – The nonprofit IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC) and European Schoolnet, on behalf of the European Commission ASPECT project, announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the IMS GLC Special Summit on Next-Generation Digital Learning & Content.

The CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies has initiated work on standardising a Simple Publishing Interface for Learning Object Repositories.

The objective is to develop a practical approach towards interoperability between repositories for learning and applications that consume or produce educational materials. Examples of repositories for learning are educational brokers, knowledge pools, institutional repositories, streaming video servers, etc.

Developer Workshop on the ASPECT approach to Federated Search and Harvesting

March 10-11, 2009 Leuven, Belgium

The workshop is primarily intended for technical staff of ASPECT content providers and organizations that are interested in becoming Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) associated partners who are not yet connected to the LRE.

ASPECT briefing at the BETT Show, London, 14 January 2009

At the BETT Show in London, a briefing on learning content standards and specifications has been organised by ASPECT and Cambridge University Press (CUP) which will begin by explaining how the Global Grid for Learning from CUP is participating in the project. The aim is particularly to outline how ASPECT is developing best practice approaches to implementing Digital Rights Management, open licensing schemes such as Creative Commons and content standards such as SCORM and the new Common Cartridge specification.

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On 1 and 2nd September 2008, project partners came together in Vienna for the first meeting of the 30-month ASPECT project.