TOPICS OF INTEREST (include but are not limited to)

Infrastructures for learning resource discovery and exchange

* Interoperable content and metadata repositories
* Protocols for exposing content
* Federations of learning resources
* Service registries

Metadata Management

* Standards, application profiles and application profile registries
* Metadata conformance, testing and validation services
* Automatic metadata generation versus human indexing
* Controlled vocabularies, translations, crosswalks and controlled vocabulary management and tools
* Protocols and techniques for metadata exchange
* Infrastructure for mass metadata processing
* Techniques for achieving metadata interoperability
* Inclusion of other type of content (library, cultural heritage)

Discovering content

* User profiling for more accurate resource discovery
* Retrieval of learning resources (searching, browsing)
* Interoperable query languages
* Enhanced search mechanism (sorting, ranking)
* Recommendation systems

Access Control vs. Open

* Data protection
* Privacy in eLearning contexts
* Copyright vs. Creative Commons
* Guaranteeing ‘openness’ of open content
* Intellectual property and metadata

Exchanging content

* Standards for reusable content (SCORM, Common Cartridge, QTI, etc.)
* Resource identification
* Reliable auditing (tracking, reporting)
* Use tracking