FIRE/LRE: The EUN Learning Resource Exchange
(formerly Federation of Internet Resources for Education)

What is FIRE/LRE ?

• Federates systems that provide learning resources - e.g., learning resource repositories, authoring tools - and
• Offers a seamless access to these resources by educational systems that enable their use - e.g., educational portals, virtual learning environments (VLEs).

LRE-Related Projects

• ASPECT
• MELT

Metadata

• LRE Metadata Application Profile version 4.0

Getting Access to the LRE Collections

• LRE SQI Target (see documentation at http://wiki.eun.org/lre-dev-guide/index.php/Main_Page)
• LRE OAI-PMH target (is deployed at http://lrecoreprod.eun.org:6080/oaitarget/OAIHandler)

An LRE Bibliography

J.N. Colin, T.D. Le, and D. Massart, A federated authorization service for bridging learning object distribution models, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL'09) (Aachen, Germany), August 2009, To appear.

J.N. Colin, T.D. Le, and D. Massart, Mediating distribution model and access control for the exchange of learning objects, Proceedings of the workshop on best practices in use of standards to support delivery of learning at ICALT 2009 (Riga, Latvia), July 2009, To appear.

D. Massart, Towards a pan-European learning resource exchange infrastructure, Proceedings of the 7th conference on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS'2009) (Haifa, Israel), June 2009, To appear.

F. Van Assche and D. Massart, Interoperability of federations of learning object repositories, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M'08), vol. 385, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, September 2008.

D. Massart, The EUN Learning Resource Exchange (LRE), The 15th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2007) Supplementary Proceedings (B. Chang, A. Kashihara, J. Kay, J. Lee, T. Matsui, R. Okamoto, D. Suthers, and F.-Y. Yu, eds.), vol. 1, 2007, pp. 170-174.

D. Massart, Celebrate's lessons, Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing, EC-TEL 2006 Workshops Proceedings (E. Tomadaki and Peter Scott, eds.), vol. 213, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, October 2006, pp. 185-191.

J.-N. Colin and D. Massart, LIMBS: Open source, open standards, and open content to foster learning resource exchanges, Proc. of The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT'06 (Kerkrade, The Netherlands) (Kinshuk, R. Koper, P. Kommers, P. Kirschner, D. Sampson, and W. Didderen, eds.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, July 5 - 7 2006, pp. 682-686.

F. Van Assche and D. Massart, Federation and brokerage of learning objects and their metadata, Proc. of The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT'04 (Joensuu, Finland) (Kinshuk, C.K. Looi, E. Sultinen, D. Sampson, I. Aedo, L. Uden, and E. Kähkönen, eds.), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, August 30 - September 1 2004, pp. 316-320.