eBlog by Tore Hoel

Methodology for analysing and validating standards was a major issue during the Vienna General Assembly last week. The issue is on the agenda for a Flashmeeting in two weeks, where partners will elaborate on how we go from a conceptual domain model to Data Models, Service Models and Process Models.
For some time I have been [...]

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The Nordlet Open Forum is a one day conference in connection to the SC36 plenary meting in Umeå (September 19-25, 2009). The Nordlet Open Forum will be arranged on September 18, and is open for everyone, you may register here to participate. The main target groups for the conference are researcher, teacher and policy makers. [...]

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If you have got wookie and a Moodle installation it is done within seconds to create a great game and learning experience out of a boring presentation on standards and high level concepts. Well, at least if you are Scott, sitting next to Mark and Simon, listening to Jan and Tore projecting the ICOPER framework [...]

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The co-editors of Part 5 Educational of the ISO Metadata for Learning resources (MLR) standard want to make sure that we reflect the needs of different user communities defining the educational elements of this standard. Therefore, to support the co-editors will organise a number of (online) workshops, the first as a FlashMeeting in the week [...]

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ICOPER exploring the capabilities of widgets to deliver units of learning. We are planning a widget workshop in Vienna on 5th of May, and hopefully we will be able to get a full update on the interesting developments going on in the UK, where the CETIS guys are working on a “Wookie server“. In [...]

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Is clustering activities between EU projects via Twitter an activity that should be reported? It was quick. It did its job. And warm relations between the ICOPER and ROLE projects are established. In 2 seconds.

What more to be said? Well, pity on the colleagues that don’t see the value in microblogging.

Technorati Tags: icoper, Web2.0

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Erik Duval is practising open research in a fine way that fosters a much needed discussion on the role of technical standards for learning technologies. At his blog he shares the version of an article he and his colleague Katrien Verbert have submitted for review. I was sleeping and missed the chance to influence the [...]

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A few days ago I blogged on the Symposium on Competencies the ICOPER project and the proposal for a Reference model that was presented by Luk Vervenne and Jehad Najjar of the Belgium company Synergetics. I did not expect the strong reactions and hint that this discussion was raised in a wrong context, i.e. in [...]

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The editors of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 WG4 MLR Part 5 (in English, the guys trying to come up with a new ISO standard describing educational metadata for learning resources) are discussing how to model the top level concepts of Part 5 of this multipart standard. A few weeks ago the decision was made in Paris [...]

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The ICOPER Berlin symposium with the sweeping title “C O M P E T E N C I E S as the Common Currency 4 Learning Outcomes – Towards a needs requirements for competency based learning” last week came up with a lot of discussion; a number of position papers and background notes; an overview [...]

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