Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) is a portal for schools to find open educational resources from many different countries and providers, including 16 Ministries of Education.

1. Learning Resource Exchange for schools http://lreforschools.eun.org Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Conventional search «From teachers to teachers» Tags in multiple languages Ratings and comments by the European Commission’s eContentplus Programme

2. LRE Connections : content connecting people across-borders Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Austria Hungary Estonia Belgium Finland Resource that «Travels well»

3. LRE Connections : Tags connect resources Visualisation on ManyEyes Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Resources with user tag «interactive» Tag «interactive»

4. LRE Connections : Tags connect resource from different providers Visualisation on ManyEyes Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Resource provider Tag «optics» OERCommons EUN

5. LRE Connections : Tags connected to thesaurus descriptors Visualisation on ManyEyes Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Thesaurus term Tags

6. LRE Connections create a social search ecology - 16% of actions contribute, 84% consume (search, play) - Social Information Retreival makes users more efficient (Vuorikari, Koper: Ecology of social search for learning resources, submitted ) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

7. Are tags from Mars and descriptors from Venus? - MELT study on the ecology of educational resource metadata - Overlap in tags and descriptors even up to 50% (Vuorikari, Sillaots, Panzavolta, Koper, submitted ) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

9. Why join Learning Resource Exchange? Associated partners “We want to bridge the gap between community publishers and professional publishers.” John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press John Tuttle, Cambridge University Press

10. LRE Infrastructure - Federates systems that provide learning resources - Technical and semantic interoperability (Towards a Pan-European Learning Resource Infrastructure, Massart, D. 2009) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

11. LRE Connections : and beoynd! These underlying connections between users, resources, tags and repositories can further be used for better Social Information Retrieval for Technology Enhanced Learning (SIRTEL) Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 SIRTEL'09 call out soon!

12. EUN Connections : eTwinning school collaboration - more than 50 k teachers signed up at etwinning.net Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

13. EUN Connections : eTwinning school collaboration - more than 50 k teachers signed up at etwinning.net Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

14. EUN Connections : eTwinning school collaboration - more than 50 k teachers signed up at etwinning.net Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009

17. Learning Resource Exchange Riina Vuorikari 3/3/2009

18. social bookmarks Metadata LOM tags folksonomy social tagging multi-linguality social classification thanks ! for your attention learning resources user communities discover resources and items questions ? teachers social navigation http://delicious.com/vuorikari/OERmonterey paths http://lreforschools.eun.org