http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/rss Guest http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/final-set-of-eqnet-travel-well-criteria-is-now-available The Quality Network for a European Learning Resource Exchange (eQNet) has been developing and testing quality criteria that will enable repository owners and content developers/publishers in both the Cathal O Cleirigh 2012-04-19T07:10:37Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/eqnet-travel-well-showcase-at-edrene-strategic-seminar-lisbon eQNet is co-sponsoring the 8th Educational Repositories (EdReNe) Seminar, taking place on 7-8 May in Lisbon, Portugal. EdReNe is a thematic network, bringing together web-based repositories of Cathal O Cleirigh 2012-04-18T08:59:53Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/open-educational-resources-rubrics-published-by-achieve-usa Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K–12 education. In the United States, state education agencies now have offices devoted to Elina Jokisalo 2011-09-15T08:19:50Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/lre-infrastructure-and-usability-in-a-spotlight The LRE's infrastructure and usability features are the subject of an article in the latest issue of the Learning Technology newsletter of the IEEE Computer Society. The special issue of the IEEE Elina Jokisalo 2011-08-30T09:26:39Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/lre-attracting-the-attention-of-spanish-speaking-pedagogues The article published on the Eroski Consumer website has information about the work of eQNet on Travel Well criteria as well as a description of high quality learning resource collections recently Elina Jokisalo 2011-08-23T14:42:19Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/new-collections-at-the-learning-resource-exchange The Learning Resource Exchange is rapidly enhancing its collection database with new high quality resources. Currently the users can select from resources offered by 36 content providers. Find here Elina Jokisalo 2011-07-07T11:13:51Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/interviews-with-eqnet-teachers During the eTwinning workshop on 10 June 2011 in Vilnius, Lithuania we interviewed two eQNet teachers. Watch what the teachers say about Travel well learning resources and how they use digital Elina Jokisalo 2011-06-30T12:22:43Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/etwinners-get-their-hands-on-travel-well During the past weekend about seventy teachers evaluated resources for the 'Travel Well' collection in the Learning Resource Exchange portal and provided valuable feedback on eQNet criteria being Elina Jokisalo 2011-06-14T09:52:29Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/the-nmc-horizon-report-2011:-k-12-edition-is-available The New Media Consortium (NMC), a not-for-profit collective of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies, released The NMC Horizon Report: Elina Jokisalo 2011-06-06T14:24:05Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/seam-2011-call-for-papers-open The fifth international workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M’11) will take place in Palermo, Italy in the framework of the EC-TEL conference in September. The main goal of the Elina Jokisalo 2011-05-31T09:04:51Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/open-educational-quality-initiative-opal-consultative-group-meetings UNESCO and the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) have invited representatives of organizations working with quality, OER and educational policy to attend the first 2011 meeting of Elina Jokisalo 2011-05-25T10:06:01Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/eqnet-public-report-is-now-available The eQNet midterm report has been submitted to the Executive Agency managing the Lifelong Learning Programme. For an overview of what has been accomplished this far and future tasks please read Public Elina Jokisalo 2011-05-02T11:26:00Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/discover-the-new-travel-well-collection:-exercise-for-the-lre-group Task 1: Select a resources that you think is useful for teachers in your country. Note, it has to come from a country other than your! What are the characteristics of this resource? Please mention 3 Riina Vuorikari 2011-03-24T09:17:08Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/data-on-how-learning-resources-are-searched-and-used-can-help-portals! In eQNet we are interested in how users perceive and use learning resources that "travel well". This means that the resource come from a country different than that of the users' and/or is in a Riina Vuorikari 2011-03-15T16:40:22Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/eqnet-teachers:-please-create-a-new-lre-username Dear eQNet teachers, We have been working on the look and some features of the LRE portal. In order to arrange the move to the new interface, we would like to ask you all to create an OpenID here: Riina Vuorikari 2011-02-08T19:49:37Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/webinar-series:-implementing-standards-to-develop-interoperable-econtent-for-performance-in-a-competency-driven-society You can now participate in a series of five international webinars designed to train the general education public on key concepts driving the design process for implementing standards to support the Riina Vuorikari 2011-01-28T13:47:24Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/article:-metadata-for-learning-materials:-an-overview-of-existing-standards-and-current-developments An article written by Phil Barker and Lorna M. Campbell provides an overview of specifications and standards for metadata relating to learning materials. The article "Metadata for learning materials: Elina Jokisalo 2011-01-21T11:52:54Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/digital-resources-that-travel-well-workshop-for-etwinning-teachers One of the teachers' workshops in the eTwinning Professional Development Workshop in Helsinki was about the use of digital resources by teachers. The eQNet partners ran this workshop and asked "Can Riina Vuorikari 2010-11-13T07:13:59Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/eqnet-teachers-workshop-in-eminent Eminent is European Schoolnet's annual conference for policy makers. This year, for the first time, teachers are also invited to participate in the event. One of the teachers' workshops is about Riina Vuorikari 2010-11-05T15:34:48Z http://eqnet.eun.org/web/guest/community/-/blogs/eqnet-presentation-in-the-se-m-workshop-in-barcelona Discovering and using learning resources across contexts: eQnet Abstract: Cross-context interactions in technology-enhanced learning take place when users cross their own language, country or Riina Vuorikari 2010-11-05T15:33:03Z