The proceedings of SIRTEL'08 and SE@M’08, two workshops ran by European Schoolnet at the third European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'08), have been published and are now available online respectively at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-382...

European Schoolnet is co-organising two workshops in the area of digital content discovery. The workshops will take place within the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07) in Greece next September.

Later in 2007, the EUN will launch a new European Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for Schools, a place on the web where teachers and learners can easily access digital learning content contained in a federation of linked repositories and find both tools and pedagogical advice to...

On March 23rd 2006 a Learning Resource Exchange seminar was held in Brussels.

Sharing web-based learning resources in educational context in Europe and beyond is what many stakeholders cherish. Simplicity of solution, however, is still something to desire. Monthly Insight to Interoperability met up with EUN's senior software architect David Massart to talk...

The connection to the FIRE federation is not the only option. There is also the possibility to have a “mass upload” of your resources to the repository.
In order to mass upload, an EXCEL sheet...

The aim of the first meeting organised in Manchester on 5 September 2005 was to take stock of the current emerging issues in the area of interoperability of learning resources repositories and to identify key issues, obstacles and drivers.

On 17 May 2005, representatives from 13 European countries met in Brussels at the European Schoolnet to set up a framework to discuss national policy issues on learning resource repositories and to agree on concrete steps towards setting up a pilot network for the exchange of learning...

Standards and interoperability are key factors in the success of the introduction of eLearning. Attempts at rationalisation and improvement of online content require a high level of on-going interoperability. The use of standards can result in lower costs, increased supply and access,...

One great effort that EUN has contributed through its projects is the multilingual Thesaurus containing over 1,100 terms in nine languages now. This hierarchical terminology comprises vocabulary in the area of educational multimedia learning resources.