ASPECT Strategic Seminar on Educational Publishing Futures - 17-18 Feb 2011

Over two days, this strategic seminar provided a platform where Ministries of Education, publishers and ICT vendors could discuss the future of educational publishing and digital content for schools.

Among others, the following issues were discussed:

• How professionally developed learning materials for schools and open educational resources can co-exist.
• How the market for eTextbooks and educational apps in schools is developing now that tablet, smartphone and other mobile devices are becoming mainstream.
• How ministries are supporting the Interactive Whiteboard common file format in response to the growing demand for interoperable IWB resources.
• How stakeholders have applied the new IMS Common Cartridge specification to K-12 content and tested these resources with teachers.
• How tools and services from the ASPECT project enable content developers to improve the metadata of their resources and make their content more easily discoverable.
• How publishers and content developers can participate in the European Schoolnet Learning Resource Exchange for schools.

Programme

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Presentations

17 February 2011

• Welcome and Introduction
  Marc Durando, Executive Director, European Schoolnet
• Building a New Partnership
  Jim Ayre, Senior Adviser, European Schoolnet
• Digital Educational Content Interoperability: Establishing the Foundation for an Integrated System of Instruction and Assessment
  Rob Abel, Ed.D., Chief Executive, IMS Global Learning Consortium
• Educational publishing: enabling the world to teach and learn
  Graham Taylor, Director Educational Publishers Council, UK
• Educational publishers in the digital transition. A focus on digital textbooks
  Catherine Lucet, Présidente at Editions Nathan
• Interactive Whiteboard content interoperability. Benefiting both users and producers
  Will Ellis, iTEC Project Manager, European Schoolnet
• ASPECT - An Overview
  David Massart, ASPECT Project Manager, European Schoolnet
• Developing Best Practices for Educational Content Standards
  Warwick Bailey, Icodeon Ltd
• Introduction to IDPF & EPUB
  Cristina Mussinelli, member of the Board of Directors at IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum)

18 February 2011

• Textbooks and digital contents in Italy: future perspectives and some challenges
  Leonardo Tosi, INDIRE
• Mobiles, Tablets & Textbooks. A Pearson Perspective
  Owen White, Digital Strategy Director, Pearson UK
• ASPECT: Vocabulary Bank for Education - Application Profile Registry
  Neil Smith, Vocabulary Management Group
• eBook open learning vision. The Open University experience
  Peter Scott, Knowledge Media Institute, UKOU
• Aspect - Results and Lessons Learned
  Lars Ingesman, UNI·C
• ASPECT: How teachers responded to using content specifications such as SCORM and Common Cartridge
  Dr. Àgueda Gras-Velázquez, Kati Clements and Pascal Craeye
• KlasCement. Building trusted partnerships
  Hans de Four and Pascal Craeye, EduCentrum
• eLearning and the Digital Agenda for Europe
  Marc Röder, European Commission, Unit E6, DG INFSO

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