The ASPECT Best Practice Network (BPN) was supported by the European Commission’s eContentplus Programme. It started in September 2008 and involved twenty-two partners from fifteen countries, including Ministries of Education (MoE), commercial content developers and...

A European Schoolnet (EUN) paper, Are tags from Mars and descriptors from Venus? A study on the ecology of educational resource metadata, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference for Web-based Learning (ICWL09) in Aachen, Germany, on 19-21 August...

Folksonomies and social tagging are an often cited example of Web 2.0, but what are they actually? How does social bookmarking differ from conventional bookmarks and what do folksonomies constitute of?

European Schoolnet is co-organising two workshops in the area of digital content discovery. The workshops will take place within the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07) in Greece next September.

The notions of digital library of educational resources and services (DLE) and its main components are presented in the article. DLE is considered here to be the aggregate of knowledge repositories and services organized as complex information system. The requirements and the framework...

MELT focus group teachers gathered in Brussels to learn about social software and have a taste on social tagging systems. The aim is to create a better access to open learning resources across Europe.

On 7 December, about 50 participants convened to discuss the issues of adoption of learning technologies and the arising issues that touch upon the underlying interoperability aspects, both the technological and semantic ones, as well as the political will to tackle them.

The LIFE-project, an e-learning project focusing on interoperability, will hold its final session in December 2006. The session takes place in conjunction with European Schoolnet's event called "Round Table: Imagining the future of Schooling" in Brugge, Belgium.

The technical development and know-how that European Schoolnet has put over the years in the advancement of federated architectures for learning resources has gained global responsibilities - EUN co-chairs a new IMS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Federated Architectures.

In October 2006, EUN released the first version of MINOR: An open-source repository of learning resources and metadata. MINOR was presented for the first time to the eMapps teachers on 7 November 2006 during a workshop organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia. MINOR was developed by EUN...

For two days about 40 people gathered in Brussels for the kick-off meeting of the MELT-project. MELT is project of the eContentplus programme bringing together 19 partners from 14 countries, including 16 content providers, both public and commercial ones.

The LIFE Fest 2006, held in Paris in June, gathered together 90 key developers and instructional designers from the public and private sectors to discover and discuss e-learning standard interoperability and certification.
The two-day event was held at Cité de Sciences...

The European Learning Resources Exchange (LRE) network has had several activities recently including: in March the LRE meeting in Brussels; the revision of the Learning Resource Application profile; and the LIFE-fest which took place in Paris on 13-14 June. The activity of the network...

The quality of digital learning resources, both for the production and usage, is gaining more and more interest among European e-learning stakeholders. In the first European Conference on Innovation for Quality in eLearning European Schoolnet organised a workshop on the issue presenting...

European Schoolnet with its members and project partners has long been working in maintaining a thesaurus to facilitate and support multilinguality within the context of European learning resources. A thesaurus is a classified list of terms and concepts, such as a specialised vocabulary...

The idea of Scenario building is to provide a story about using e-portfolios in education that teachers, technologists and policy makers can understand. Scenarios can describe either an actual practice or a vision that envisages how e-portfolios can be used. But what is the use of...

European Schoolnet's Strategy Manager Frans Van Assche has been re-elected as vice chairman of CEN/ISSS Workshop on Learning Technologies, a European body that encourages the effective development and use of appropriate standards for learning technologies in Europe.

Linking US and European experiences in the field of interoperability was the highlight of the EUN-SIF Conference, which took place on 19-20 April, 2005. The School Interoperability Framework (SIF) Executive Director Larry Fruth along with representatives from, among others, Blackboard,...

Did you ever feel like listening to Martians talking when your colleagues talk about standardisation, specifications and conformance issues in a very acknowledgeable way? It actually doesn't take a rocket scientist to encode it all. See here some abbreviations and their true meaning....

The first ePortfolio plugfest ePplugfest will be organised to present the state of the art of ePortfolio technologies and demonstrate and explore the possibilities for interoperabilitybetween ePortfolio platforms and other information systems (you are also invited to contribute to...