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Monday:15 September

Project Groups
9:00-5:00	Learning Object Discovery & Exchange 09:00-09:15 INTRODUCTIONS                         * Agree agenda                         * IPR Disclosure 09:15:10:45 LO EXCHANGE INFORMATION MODEL 10:45:11:00 Coffee 11:00-12:30 REGISTRY INFORMATION MODEL 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:00 SEARCH RESULT FORMAT                         Experiment results and future work:                         * LODE context sets                         * OAI-PMH                         * SQI 15:00-15:15 Tea 15:15-16:30 SRU/SRW                         Liaison with the ASPECT project 16:30-16:30 REVIEW                         * Agree Action Points                         * Agree Timeline                         * Agree Meetings/Conf Call Times 17:00 Adjourn
9:00-5:00	Question & Test Interoperability 09:00-09:15    INTRODUCTIONS:         * Agree agenda 09:15-10:45    QTI Implementation Presentations and Discussion 10:45-11:00    Break 11:00-12:00    QTI Implementation Presentations and Discussion 12:00-13:00    Lunch 13:00-14:45    PROFILING QTI: CC v1.2.1 to v2.1 14:45-15:15    Break 15:15-16:30    PROFILING QTI:  K12 Profile 16:30-17:00    CONCLUSIONS:         * Agree actions         * Agree timetable

Tuesday: 16 September

Wednesday: 17 September

Project Groups
9:00 - 12:00	The Next Generation of Learning and Educational Technology Standards An Overview of the Work of the IMS Global Learning Consortium Agenda: Today’s Global Education and Learning Challenges Ramifications for Standards & Standards Organizations/Activities --- Learning tech research & market adoption realities --- Development & release cycles --- Support, tools, application profiles and communities --- Ongoing maintenance and evolution Digital Learning Services Standards: The Next Generation from IMS GLC --- Organized and distributed digital learning content (Common Cartridge - CC) --- Applications and systems (Learning Tools Interoperability - LTI) --- Learner information (Learning Information Services – LIS) Adoption Practice Standards: Achieving Mainstream Market Participation Questions & Answers
1:30 - 5:00	Learning Impact Award Regional Showcase
1:00-5:00	Common Cartridge K12
1:00 - 5:00	Common Cartridge for Health 13:00-13:30     Introductions                 Aims & Objectives of the Meeting 13:30-14:00     Healthcare Needs in Online Teaching & Learning 14:00-14:30     Common Cartridge Overview 14:30-15:00     Using Virtual Patients                 * Authoring and using VPs                 * Medbiquitous VP Specification 15:00-15:15     Tea 15:15-16:30     Technology Requirements                 * Content packaging                 * Metadata (HEAL, etc.)                 * Assessment                 * Run-time interactions         16:30-17:00     Agree Way Forward 17:00           Adjourn

Thursday: 18 September - Draft Agenda

Summit on Interoperability Now and Next
9:15am	Welcome and Keynotes Rob Abel, CEO IMS GLC Bill Olivier, Development Director for Systems and Technology, JISC TBC
Interoperability for Teaching and Learning Activities – Learning Design Specifications and standards for eLearning content have matured over recent years: IMS Content Packaging has seen adoption for SCORM®, formed the foundation of IMS Common Cartridge and been supported by the Common Cartridge Alliance, and is now being submitted to the International Standards Organisation. IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) has also matured into version 2.1 and is seeing an period of enhanced interest. IMS Learning Design (LD), on the other hand, has been less widely engaged with but it offers a vital and widely demanded component for effective technology enhanced learning: a model and interoperability specification for learning activity coordination. This session will demonstrate recent developments and put forward some ideas for how to advance Learning Design based on experiences in applying it to date.
9:45	Learning Design LD in brief, an elevator pitch on the origins and scope of application of LD and a reflection on where we are today, Dai Griffiths (University of Bolton) Demonstrations of new-generation design and delivery software, featuring: ReCourse Learning Design Editor, Phil Beauvoir, University of Bolton Learning Design meets Widgets, Paul Sharples, University of Bolton Prolix LD Tools, Fabrizio Giorgini (Giunti Labs) Learning Design, what next? Brief position statements/presentations from panel on their views followed by audience questions and discussion. Panel: Oleg Liber (CETIS) or Rob Koper (OUNL), Patrick McAndrew (OUUK), Helen Beetham (JISC) TBC, Fabrizio Giorgini (Giunti Labs). Chair: Dai Griffiths
12:00	Lunch
Recent and Current Approaches to Interoperability Since the birth of XML 10 years ago, it has been the foundation of quite a diversity of approaches to interoperability. This session will take a look at some topics that may challenge conventional practice (or wisdom maybe) or test the way we think about designing for interoperability and ask the question: “how should we do things in the future?”
1:00	Part 1: Bootstrapping interoperability with simple web specs Feeds-based provision of resources, a case study in medical education. David Davies, Warwick Medical School and IVIMEDS. TBC SWORD, a case study in application profiling Atom Publishing Protocol for repository deposit combined, Sarah Currier, Intrallect SWORD, Feedforward and IntraLibrary, an integrated demonstration. Sarah Currier, Intrallect and Scott Wilson, University of Bolton How far can we go with this approach? Panel, audience discussion and Q&A based on the visions of the future expressed by the session speakers. Chair: Adam Cooper, JISC CETIS Part 2: Practical SOA and the eFramework The International eFramework, an elevator pitch, Ian Dolphin, JISC TILE, understanding “Library 2.0” in the light of the eFramework, David Kay, Sero Consulting Question and Test Item Banking – Perspectives on QTI and Web Services, Steve Lay, University of Cambridge The TETRA Collaboration, practical SOA for a sustainable OSS platform for HE, John Norman TBC, University of Cambridge
3:30	Break
Is Higher and Further Education Fit for SOA: is SOA fit for HE/FE? An entire industry sector has emerged around promoting and supporting a Service Oriented Architecture based on the WS* stack but we need to ask some questions about where we are and where we are going. Should higher and further education be gearing up to adopt SOA? Are we ready now? Are there alternatives? Would it be better to think of service orientation as a more technology-neutral approach: a paradigm? How should we develop specifications in the light of answers to these questions and what other initiatives are needed such that higher and further education institutions can realise the benefits of service orientation or should we direct attention elsewhere and declare the proposed benefits to be merely an illusion?
4:00	Panel Discussion Panel: Ian Dolphin, JISC Andrew Morris, Tribal Group John Townsend, Liverpool John Moores University TBC Other : TBC Chair: Mark Stiles, Staffordshire University
5:00	Regional LIA Award Winners

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