Abstract
The Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) is a new service that provides schools with access to educational content from many different origins. From a technical standpoint, it consists of an infrastructure that:
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Federates systems that provide learning resources – e.g., learning resource repositories, authoring tools – and
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Offers a seamless access to these resources by educational systems that enable their use – e.g., educational portals, virtual learning environments (VLEs).
As the number of connected systems increased over time, this infrastructure had to evolve in order to improve the quality of its search service.
This paper describes the current LRE infrastructure and explains the rationale behind its evolution.
The work presented in this paper is partially supported by the European Community eContentplus programme - project ASPECT: Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content (Grant agreement number ECP-2007-EDU-417008). The author is solely responsible for the content of this paper. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community and the European Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained therein.
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Massart, D. (2009). Towards a Pan-European Learning Resource Exchange Infrastructure. In: Feldman, Y.A., Kraft, D., Kuflik, T. (eds) Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. NGITS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04941-5_14
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