.LRN Users' Group Meeting 2005 (9-10 of May 2005)

After Copenhagen in 2003 and Heidelberg in 2004, the .LRN Users' Group Meeting will come to Madrid in 2005. Presentations and workshop language is English.

Agenda: May 9th, 2005

• 8:30 AM - Opening Remarks .LRN/OpenACS - Status and Plans
• 9:15 AM - .LRN Consortium - Q & A
• 9:45 AM - Caroline Meeks and David Bauer, Learning Object Repository Service (LORS)
• 10.30 AM - Gustaf Neuman -- Learn@WU Developments
• 11.15 AM - Vivian Aguilar and Rocael Hernandez - Registration and Course Catlog
• 11.45 AM - Malte Sussdorf - Assessment
• 12:30 AM - Lunch Speaker: Kathleen Gilroy -- New Technologies for Knowledge Communities
• 2:00 PM - Don Baccus - Portal Strategy
• 2:30 PM - Rafael Calvo - dotFolio (Improving learning with electronic portfolios)
• 3:00 PM - Carl Blesius - Virtualization in the Context of OpenACS
• 3:45 PM - Dave Bauer - The Content Repository and Search in OpenACS
• 4:30 PM - Jeff Davis - Content Management and Communities of Practice
• 9:00 PM - Dinner (details to follow here)

Agenda: May 10th, 2005 (tbd)
(Breakout Sessions will be based on interest and projects)

• 9:00 AM-3:00 PM - Potential Breakout Session Topics:

Foro hispano de .LRN y software libre educativo (10-11 May 2005)

This is the first workshop on .LRN and educational open software to be held in Spanish for the Spanish-speaking community around the world (agenda).

This event is associated with Online Educa Madrid 2005, to take place in Madrid, 11-13 May 2005. Registration is independent, but those registering at Online Educa Madrid and the .LRN workshops will get a 10% discount on both registration fees.

Both the User meeting and the Foro hispano events will be held at Telefónica I+D premises in Madrid, in the C/Emilio Vargas, 6 building. There is one single registration fee for all events.

Two other events are relevant in this context: a bug bash and the special issue:

.LRN Bug Bash (11 May 2005)

A bug bash session will be organized at UNED premises on 11 May 2005. Registration will be handled through the .LRN website.

IJCEELL Special Issue

A special issue of the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning will be devoted to Educational Open Source Software. Submissions are accepted for this special issue until 30 April 2005. Author guidelines are available. It is also possible to submit a paper for presentation at one of the workshops and for publicaction in the journal.