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ASPECT is taking steps to address the potentially damaging ‘disconnect’ between standards bodies and experts on the one hand and educational policy makers, ICT advisers and practitioners on the other. It ensures that best practice with regard to the implementation of standards and specifications for learning technologies (SSLT) will no longer be derived primarily via technical experts working on pilots and demonstrators and meeting together in workshops and plugfests.

ASPECT is actively working with leading European experts, professionals and policy makers in Ministries of Education who can make a real impact on SSLT take-up. From the perspective of Ministries of Education taking part in project, a key result will be that teachers’ views as well as those of technical experts will have been considered during the pre-standardisation process.

In addition, the ASPECT partners continue to be active contributors to all international standardisation bodies and consortia active in e-learning (CEN/ISSS, IEEE, ISO, IMS, ADL). The project also:

  • Helps create at least two CEN Workshop Agreements (subject to approval by CEN/ISSS WSLT), one IMS specification (subject to approval by the IMS Global Learning Consortium) and two ENs created in TC353.

  • Makes proposals and recommendations concerning how a number of standards can be combined in order to ensure more transparent forms of interoperability between learning content repositories and the wide variety of learning platforms in schools.

  • Enables stakeholders to better understand the merits of a range of different standards and specifications and how these can be applied to both professionally generated content and the growing volume of user-generated content from teachers and pupils.

  • Provides a new set of support services that will facilitate the interoperability of learning content. Implemented within an LRE Service Centre. These have started to become available in September 2009 and will be sustained beyond the end of the project. The LRE Service Centre includes a:

  • Consolidation and further extend work that has already commenced related to the building of a pan-European Learning Resource Exchange service for schools.

  • Carries out a wide range of dissemination activities (including both international and country-specific public events, publication of five newsletters and an ASPECT Award) in order to create a sustainable framework within which stakeholders (at least 300 participants) can work together.

ASPECT is producing the following public deliverables:

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Title Month Summary Download
D1.1 Charter for ASPECT Associate Partners M3 Summary Download
D1.3.1 Intermediate Public Report M15 Download
D1.3.2 Final Public Report M30
D2.1 ASPECT Approach to Federated Search and Harvesting of Learning Object Repositories M6 Summary Download
D2.2 Design of Data Model and Architecture for a Registry of Learning Object Repositories and Application Profiles M6 Summary Download
D2.3 ASPECT Approach To Multilingual Vocabularies, Including Automated Translation Services M6 Summary Download
D2.4 Wiki with Material from Repository to Support Training and Dissemination M6 Link
D2.5 Infrastructure and services v1.0 M9 Download
D2.6 Infrastructure and services v2.0 M18 Download
D2.7 Infrastructure and services v3.0 M27
D3.1 Best Practice Report for Content Use M6 Summary Download
D3.2.1 Conformance Testing Tools version 1  M9 Summary Download
D3.2.2 Conformance Testing Tools version 2 M18 Download
D3.3 IMS CC & SCORM Demonstrator v1.0 M12 Download
D3.4 Intermediate Evaluation Report for Content Use M15
D3.5 Best practice report for content use v2.0 M18 Download
D3.6 IMS CC & SCORM Demonstrator v2.0 M24
D4.1 Dissemination Plan & Communication Handbook M6 Summary Download
D4.2 ASPECT Web site and community M2 Link
D4.3.1 PowerPoint presentations on project (initial) M3 Download
D4.3.2 PowerPoint presentation on project (final) M30
D4.4.2 Report on ASPECT workshops, plugfests and conferences n 2 & 3 M30
D4.5 ASPECT Network of Practitioners M6 Summary Download
D4.5.1 Report on ASPECT workshops, plugfests and conferences n1 M15 Download
D4.6 ASPECT Award M18
D4.7 ASPECT Service Centre M3 Download
D5.1 A critical mass of metadata that can be searched for and discovered seamlessly M18 Download
D5.2 A critical mass of content to which a set of preferred standards and specifications have been applied M18 Download
D5.3 Release 1 of the integrated system M15 Download
D5.4 Release 2 of the integrated system: Common Cartridge tutorial M24 Download
D5.5 Report on the advantages/issues associated with the large-scale implementation of selected standards M28
D6.3 Report on summer school M13 Download
D6.4 National Validation reports M27
D6.5 Final Report on the Experimentation M28
D7.3.1 Evaluation Report v1 M15 Download
D7.3.2 Final Evaluation Report M28