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	ASPECT LRE Technical & Semantic Interoperability Workshop - Presentations available! The European Schoolnet's Learning Resource Exchange and the ASPECT Best Practice Network organised a two-day workshop at the EUN Office in Brussels on 15 and 16 June 2010. Read here the agenda and download the presentations! Read more...
	Teacher interviews at ASPECT Summer School In May 2010, the ASPECT Summer School gathered 40 teachers from across Europe to learn about content packaging and integration of resources into learning platforms. We interviewed several teachers to know what they think about content standards, digital learning resources and using these in their day-to-day teaching. Find out here what they said! Read more...
	Teachers and content packaging standards. Initial conclusions from the ASPECT evaluation The ASPECT project has organised three teacher workshops for a group of 40 mathematics and science teachers from Belgium (Flanders), Lithuania, Romania and Portugal. All three workshops have combined straight-forward assignments with more free-browsing activities in order to obtain first-hand, direct feedback from the teachers. This article presents some of the preliminary findings of the third workshop held in Lisbon in May 2010. Read more...
	ASPECT Awards: Awarding Learning Technology Standards Adoption In order to celebrate the achievements of all those who have already adopted Learning Technology Standards, and encourage further adoption, individuals and organisations will have the opportunity to apply for the ASPECT Award. The award criteria take into account Licensing, Metadata and Delivery. Read more...
	ASPECT Newsletter 2 The second ASPECT Newsletter (June 2010) has been published. > Teachers and content packaging standards > ASPECT Awards > ASPECT Webinars > ASPECT LRE Technical & Semantic Interoperability Workshop > SE@M’10 International Workshop Read more...
	ASPECT Summer School in Lisbon During the ASPECT project’s Summer School on 8 May in Estoril (Portugal) over 40 teachers from Belgium, Lithuania, Portugal and Romania came together to discuss the use of online learning resources and learning content repositories in mathematics and science lessons. The aim of this Summer School was particularly to explore how learning content standards (such as SCORM and Common Cartridge) can be exploited by teachers and how different types of “content packaging” can add value to the learning experience. Read more...
	ASPECT Newsletter 1 The first ASPECT Newsletter (December 2009) has been published. > Visit us at BETT 2010! > ASPECT tools and services update > New Look LTSO > ASPECT workshops and plugfests in 2010. Read more...
	ASPECT Test System now available ASPECT is providing a new set of tools and support services that will facilitate the interoperability of learning content. The first of these is the ASPECT Test System which allows you to test xml files for compliance with the Learning Resource Exchange Metadata Application Profile Version 4.0. Read more...
	IMS Global Learning Consortium and the ASPECT Project Announce Partnership 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. Read more...
	The Learning Resource Exchange wins an IMS Award at Learning Impact 2009! 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 Read more...

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