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Title- Accessing mobile learning records in Moodle through web services

Abstract- The ability to connect mobile devices to any application or web utility is increasingly important. If in the education sector, virtual learning environments such as Moodle are surprisingly widespread. In light of this, this work aims to explore a new possibility to make the afore mentioned integration possible, enabling such applications to become autonomous on the mobile devices and to connect to Moodle to record the results of learning activities. Our purpose is to focus on designing an alternative way to integrate applications developed in educational and virtual learning environments that, as well as being accessible through Web services, allows the use of any type of technology or programming language.

Index Terms- Educational Technology, mobile learning, Moodle, Web Services

Title- A referencial for alignment among stakeholders in the Agile and Virtual University

Abstract- This paper introduces the Agile and Virtual University (UAV) model for continuing education and training, which, supported by a Market of Teaching Resources and a broker, promotes the matching between the ‘offer’ of units of learning and the ‘demand’ of individualized learning projects. The answer to the particular and specific needs of each learner is provided through a network of resources providers designated UAV, specifically tailored to attend this purpose. The UAV has a dynamic structure, that is, during its existence the network can change / reconfigure its structure to assure the permanent alignment between the UAV participants and the expected results. The UAV creation or configuration and subsequent reconfigurations are driven by the referential of strategic alignment presented in this paper.

Index Terms- Agile and virtual university, market of resources, market of teaching resources, individualized learning project, strategic alignment

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Title- The ARIADNE experience: Creating a network of learning objects through standards and specifications

Abstract- ARIADNE is a European foundation that aims to foster “Share and Reuse” of learning resources. To support this goal, ARIADNE has created an infrastructure for managing learning objects in an open and scalable way. This paper describes the technical approach behind our open, standards based infrastructure, how content providers can connect to it, and the value they can derive from doing so. As such, the abundance that we help to unlock will act as a platform for innovation by tool developers, trainers and teachers and learners themselves.

Index Terms- Data storage Systems, Distance learning, Knowledge management

Title- Analysis of SCORM standard for the integration of educational games

Abstract- The use of digital games in educational settings starts to be accepted and nowadays the discussion is shifting to other issues. An active topic is how to achieve an effective integration of games in education in general and in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) in particular, taking full advantage of characteristics such as adaptation or in-game assessment. Interoperability requires that the integration of games in VLEs complies with e-learning standards. SCORM is one of the most successful e-learning standards that addresses not only content packaging and annotation but also bidirectional communication between content and VLE and conditional content delivery. This paper discusses the possibilities offered by SCORM to support effective educational game integration in virtual environments.

Index Terms- Authoring tools, Computer aided instruction, Educational games, Electronic learning, SCORM, Standards

Title- Implementing and using standards to describe and exchange educational digital resources

Abstract- This paper describes the experience of the CNDP (Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique), a French educational institution, implementing and using standards to describe, search and exchange digital educational resources. The concerned standards are IEEE LOM (Learning Object Metadata) and IMS ILOX (Information for Learning Object Exchange) for the metadata structures, VDEX (Vocabulary Definition Exchange) and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) for the controlled vocabularies representation and OAI/PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) for the harvesting and exchange activities. It focuses on the feedback obtained from the European ASPECT (Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content) project.

Index Terms- digital learning resource, e-learning, interoperability, metadata, IEEE LOM, OAI/PMH

Title- Content production and authoring based on e- learning standards

Abstract- In the current context of standard development strategies, the use of existing standards has been combined with the creation of ad-hoc formal specifications and tools. In this production framework, educational institutions must rethink the content life cycle towards a sustainable model based on a combination of its own research and use of existing standards. This makes it possible to integrate teachers' standardized content authoring through a strategy of institutional production and the usage of tools that implement this instructional design in a higher level of abstraction, avoiding the approach of authoring tools driven by standards’ specification syntax.

Index Terms- Modelling Educational Content, e-learning standards, content authoring tools

Title- ISO/IEC 19788 MLR: A New Metadata Standard for Learning Resources

Abstract- The International Organización for Standardization has decided to develop a new metadata standard for learning resources. This standard claims to enhance the compatibility, flexibility and focus on the user requirements. This article presents the new ISO/IEC MLR standard, describes it and compares the MLR data elements to those defined in Dublin Core and in LOM.

Index Terms- metadata, metadata learning resource, learning object, e-learning