Related projects and materials
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The Instructional Management Project
is developing and promoting open specifications for facilitiating online
activities such as locating and using educational content, tracking learner
progress, reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records
between administrative systems. Of particular interest to this project
is the IMS Metadata Specification This is directed toward describing
learning resources that are accessible, or perhaps just catalogued, online.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a major metadata activity which
addresses the need for a common syntax for expressing assertions about
information on the web. The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
being developed by W3C is an infrastructure that enables the encoding,
exchange and reuse of structured metadata. RDF is an application of XML
that imposes needed structural constraints to provide unambiguous methods
of expressing semantics. Web based metadata projects such as that used
in IMS depend upon the implementation of RDF forthe development of generic
metadata search engines. See:
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Ian Heywood notes that:
"The best starting point for general European Info might be http://www.idb.hist.no/mecpol/.
This is a 'generic' EU funded project on Models for European Collaboration
and Pedagogy in Open Learning (For non-Europeans, you may want to
know that "ODL" stands for Open and Distance Learning, an acronym we'll
surely hear a lot at the meeting.)
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An important UK link is the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
(TLTP) GeographyCal®
Project.
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A very interesting web site all about developing and building interoperable
educational objects in Java is Apple's Educational
Object Economy. This EOE " is a community of Educators, Developers
and Businesses working together to use, create, and collaborate upon Educational
Java objects on the web. Currently, there are over 2200 educational Java
objects in the library, covering virtually every subject area. These interactive
simulations, illustrations, and exercises are available at no cost for
anyone with web access to use."
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See the position papers submitted
by meeting participants to find out about other related projects.
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