LRE - Learning Resource Exchange for Schools

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

Major EU publishers and 16 Ministries of Education are coming together in a strategic partnership to enhance schools’ access to digital learning resources. The European Educational Publishers Group will join the member Ministries of European Schoolnet’s Learning Resource Exchange (lreforschools.eun.org) service.

A postcard announcing the launch of the LRE for Schools site (lreforschools.eun.org) has been made available and can already be downloaded as a pdf.

We can also provide a print version to anyone who wants to use it for dissemination purposes. Please use the contact form.

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

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.

Building a European Learning Resource Exchange: MELT presentations at EMINENT 2008

The work of the MELT project was presented in two workshops during the 2008 EMINENT conference to a combined audience of nearly 70 delegates. As well as highlighting how Associate Partners in the Learning Resource Exchange could benefit from MELT social tagging tools and the project's work on automatic metadata generation/translation, delegates also had a presentation from Riina Vuorikari at European Schoolnet who has been analysing initial results from evaluation of teacher-created tags.

The former capital of the Low Countries was the meeting point of teachers and others involved in the MELT project for their summer school.

Its aims were to bring together the different groups that have been working on the MELT project: a first focus group of expert teachers, a second pilot group of practitioners from schools who have been using the Melt portal in their work and the evaluators and leaders of the project. They came to share their experiences and evaluate the work so far so that their feedback can be used to improve the system.

European Schoolnet organised a major seminar for approximately 100 potential LRE Associate Partners in Brussels on 9 November 2007.

The seminar provided an overview of LRE benefits for Associate Partners and information on the range of options for how organisations can connect to the LRE or expose their resources to school via the LRE federation.