Life Launching Seminar

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Wednesday 24 March 2004

09:00 Opening

• Welcome

Mr. Ulf W Lundin, Executive Director, European Schoolnet

• The LIFE action

Prof. Frans van Assche, Strategy Manager, European Schoolnet

09:30 Strategies and priorities for (pre)standardisation and interoperability

• eLearning Industry Group

Mr. Richard Straub, Chairman (confirmed)

• European IMS

Mr. Steve Griffin, Executive Director, eLearning standards adoption (confirmed)

• Schools Interoperability Framework

Mr. Larry Fruth, Executive Director (confirmed)

• CEN/ISSS

Mr. Mike Collett, Chairman, Learning Technologies Workshop (confirmed)

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 National approaches and priorities to standards and interoperability

• Norwegian eStandard Project

Mr. Tore Hoel, Project Manager (confirmed)

• Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture

Dipl. Ing. Dr.Robert Kristöfl, Ministerialrat (confirmed)

• Kennisnet, Netherlands

Mr. Joost van Eck, Kennisnet (confirmed)

• Ministry of Youth, National Education and Research, France

Prof. Michel Arnaud
University of Paris X France (confirmed)

• Department for Education and Skills, UK
  

Dr. Anne Wright, Consultant Adviser (confirmed)

12:15 Items for common work. Summarising panel

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Exploring interoperability

• Facets of interoperability

Prof. Dr. Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (last minute cancellation)

• Open source and open standards

Mr.Peter B. Sloep, Open University, Netherlands (confirmed)

• Learning object repository interoperability

Dr. Bernd Simon, University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria (confirmed)

15:10 Coffee

15:30 Exploring interoperability (continued)

• ePortfolio and learner information

Mr. Peter Rees Jones, University of Leeds, UK (confirmed)

• From standards and specifications to wider adoption
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Dr. Bill Olivier, Bolton Institute, UK

16:15 Items for common work. Summarising panel

Thursday 25 March 2004

09:00 Standards and interoperability in EUN projects

• OASIS and SIF – adopting for Europe

Mr. Mariano Sanz, Technical Manager, European Schoolnet

• The CELEBRATE application profile

Mr. Lassi Nirhamo, Turku University, Finland

• The CELEBRATE brokerage system

Mr. Jean-Noel Colin, Sun Microsystems, Belgium

Mr. Fabrizio Cardinali, Giunti Interactive Lab, Italy

Prof. Frans van Assche, Strategy Manager, European Schoolnet

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 European Commission strategies for interoperability

• The IST Programme

Mr. Carlos Oliveira

11:00 Draft conclusions of the workshop

Prof. Frans van Assche, Strategy Manager, European Schoolnet

12:00 LIFE ahead. Closing panel.

12:45 Closing of seminar

Mr. Ulf W Lundin, Executive Director, European Schoolnet