"SELF" - Sharing knowledge about free software

FYI, seems useful:

http://selfproject.eu/


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SELF launches Expert Group on Learning Standards

SELF (an acronym for 'Science, Education and Learning in Freedom')
is an international project aiming to provide a platform for the
collaborative sharing and creation of free educational and
training materials on Free Software and Open Standards.

Learning standards and guidelines for the contents of the SELF
Platform provide a common basis for the design of educational
materials. The Learning Standards Expert Group (LSEG) has been
constituted in order to help define the learning standards and
guidelines for the contents of the platform.

The SELF Platform is a repository with free educational and
training materials on Free Software and Open Standards and an
environment for the collaborative creation of new materials.
Inspired by Wikipedia, the SELF Platform provides the materials
in different languages and forms. The SELF Platform is also an
instrument for evaluation, adaptation, creation and translation
of these materials. Most importantly, the SELF Platform is a
tool to unite community and professional efforts for public benefit.

SELF Consortium partner Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
has researched digital format candidates to be used in the SELF
Platform. While the SELF Platform collects content in an open
standard it also follows didactic standards for its own operation.
This ensures that all the content collected into the platform, as
well as what gets distributed from it will confirm to the widely
used open standards.

The Learning Standards Expert Group will advice, provide feedback
and test demonstrating versions and the final version of the SELF
Platform, emphasising the implementation of the learning standards.
They define common goals and structures for different kinds of
educational materials. This group is formed by experts in the
field of Learning Objects (LOM, SCORM and/or IMS-LD) to give advice
in the definition of the information used to label the SELF
contents and to create the structure of the SELF repository. The
Expert Group, led by David Megias, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,
consists of:

Dai Griffiths.
Mr. Dai Griffiths is the Reader in eLearning at CETIS, The
University of Bolton. A major theme in his projects was the use of
eLearning interoperability specifications, and he has published
extensively on this topic in journal papers, conference
communications and book chapters.

Rosanna Forestello.
Rosanna Forestello is professor in Sciences of Education,
University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina. Here she graduated in
sciences of Education and holds a master in Education Multimedia
at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Ms. Forestello is also
University Professor in Theories of Teaching and Theories of
Learning at the University of Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina,
Pedagogical Adviser in Economic Sciences School at the University
of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina, and Pedagogical Adviser in La
Salle School, Cordoba, Argentina.

Rob Koper.
Rob Koper is professor and director of learning technologies
research at the Open University of the Netherlands. He publishes
frequently in scholarly journals and edited various books and
special issues of journals in the field of learning design and
lifelong competence development.

Julià Minguillón.
Julià Minguillón is lecturer Computer Science, Multimedia and
Telecommunication Studies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(Spain), where he is leading a research group in e-learning,
ontologies and user modeling in virtual environments for
personalisation purposes. From November 1st, he is associate
director of Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, IN3 (UOC's
research institute).

M. Sasikumar.
Dr Sasikumar heads the Artificial Intelligence and Educational
Technology divisions of CDAC Mumbai (formerly NCST). His areas
of research interest within Artificial Intelligence include
planning and scheduling, natural language processing and data
mining.

The SELF Platform is initiated by an international consortium of
seven partners; three universities Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(Spain), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Homi Bhabha Centre
for Science Education (India), and four non-profit organisations
active as Free Software advocates: Internet Society (Netherlands),
Free Software Foundation Europe (in all European countries),
Internet Society (Bulgaria) and Fundación Vía Libre (Argentina).
They work closely together to facilitate communities as well as to
raise awareness and to contribute to the building of critical mass
for the use of Free Software and Open Standards.

The SELF Platform aims to be a community of all interested parties
associated with educational and training materials about Free
Software and Open Standards. The SELF Platform specifically
embraces universities, schools, training centres, Free Software
communities, software companies, publishers and government bodies.
All users are encouraged to participate in the production process
and the exploitation of results.