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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-681/foreword.pdf
Fourth International Workshop on Search and Exchange of
e-le@rning Materials (SE@M’10)
Elena Shulman1
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European Schoolnet (EUN), Brussels, Belgium
Context and Objectives
The SE@M’10 workshop was held on September 27-28, 2010 in conjunction with the
Fifth European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’10) in
Barcelona, Spain.
Over the last fifteen years, considerable effort has been spent on the development
of standards and specifications in order to improve the interoperability of e-learning
systems, repositories, and content. These efforts have led to significant
improvements in the arena of technical interoperability enabling the emergence and
expansion of successful federations and alliances of learning object repositories such
as the LRE, GLOBE, etc. Building blocks for this success have been the creation,
evolution and adoption of standards such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata
(LOM), the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH),
and the Simple Query Interface (SQI). More recent developments in this field include
the definition of a Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) and the ongoing work within the
IMS Global Learning Consortium on the Learning Object Discovery & Exchange
(LODE) specification to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects
stored across more than one collection. The development of best practices (for
example by projects like ASPECT and ICOPER), enabling more efficient use of these
standards and specifications, has also proven instrumental in the successes of
current learning content retrieval infrastructures.
To further developments in this field, the main goal of this international workshop
was to offer a forum where researchers and practitioners discussed theoretical
aspects, open issues, and innovative approaches and shared the latest advances in
the state of the art and practices for exchanging and describing learning content.
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Program
Among the 12 papers submitted to the workshop, 11 (6 full papers and 5 short
papers) were accepted by the SE@M’10 program committee. The papers were
presented in the course of the two day workshop. Two keynote speakers opened
and closed the workshop.
Papers explored innovative approaches and technical solutions for the management
of learning object repositories, data models for efficiently organizing multiple
metadata standards, content packaging, digital curation, keyword extraction, user
generated metadata and a series of issues encountered in federated metadata
management.
Organizers
David Massart and Elena Shulman, European Schoolnet (Belgium)
Program Committee
Vladimir Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jean-Noel Colin, University of Namur, Belgium
Ingo Dahn, University of Koblenz, Germany
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Joris Klerkx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Manuel Kolp, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Robert Kristoefl, BMUKK, Austria
Eugenijus Kurilovas, ITC, Centre of Information Technologies of Education, Lithuania
Tien-Dung Le, European Schoolnet (EUN), Belgium
Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network, Greece
Jon Mason, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Nick Nicholas, Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Australia
Tomasz Orzechowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Fredrik Paulsson, Umea University, Sweden
Jan Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Alain Pirotte, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Daniel Rehak, ADL, USA
Griff Richards, Athabasca University, Canada
Bernd Simon, WU-Wien, Austria
Stefaan Ternier, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
Frans Van Assche, Ariadne Foundation, Belgium
Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet, Belgium
Nigel Ward, University of Queensland, Australia
Tsuneo Yamada, Open University, Japan
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