OpeniWorld:Europe2008
Federating Resources Through Open Interoperability
Lyon, France, June 24-27, 2008
For its first European event, to be hosted in France by the Lyon 2 University (member of the Lyon University Consortium) in collaboration with MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative, OpeniWorld will focus its attention on resource federation, one of today’s key educational technology challenges. Federation offers much promise for inter-institutional collaboration towards more effective learning as well as significant market opportunities for providers and consumers of educational content, software and services.
OiW:Europe2008 News:
Keynote and Paper Abstracts have now been posted. Follow links from the Conference Schedule page, or below:
Keynote Presentations:
Vijay Kumar, Prospective
Joshua Ferraro, Technology
Rob Abel, Standards
Llorenc Valverde, Moving Forward
Fabrizio Cardinali, ELIG Perspective
Plenary Panel: OpenCourseWare Interoperability
Symposium Themes
OpeniWorld:Europe2008 consists of a Symposium and Interoperability Showcase organized around five core themes:
Prospective – why – Identifying the gaps between the need for raising the quality of online distant learning and the isolation of individual institutes/learners brings us to the belief that federating knowledge and content while maintaining full control on the resources and intellectual property is a must.
Technology – what – Technology allows us to actually build these capabilities into online tools. It’s all about adding intelligence into communication layers between tools – it’s the plug and play idea that helps us better utilize the benefits and particularities of specific applications through adding the blocks to build specific and independent digital market places.
Standards – how – None of this would be happening if we didn’t have standards. Standards and specifications organizations have an essential role in adopting and writing guidelines. Interoperability and federation of resources could never become a global reality without adherence to appropriate standards.
Case study – who – We will be looking at the added value generated by federating resources – Impact on the institutions and learners, enlightening of communities, sharing scientific findings, time saving, economic sense, reaching out, etc.
Moving forward – where to – Progress has been made, but there is still a long ways to go. Federation of educational resources is a reality and results are being documented. We can now focus our attention and investment on new and innovative application of federated resources to take advantage of opportunities that could not have been conceived of before.
Who should attend? Researchers, innovators, policy and business decision makers, library technologists, software architects and engineers, and students in the field of educational and training technology.
Call for Proposals
The Call for Papers deadline for OpeniWorld:Europe2008 has already passed. To review the calls for papers and Showcase Demonstrators please feel free to download the following PDF files: