AgroLT Workshop, HAICTA

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Learning Technology Standards for Agriculture and
Rural Development

• Workshop of the HAICTA08 conference
• Workshop chairs
• Nikos Manouselis, Greece
• Gauri Salokhe, Italy
• Cleo Sgouropoulou, Greece
• Constantina Costopoulou, Greece

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Why?

• interoperability
• essential to realize an open infrastructure for
  learning
• can put a wide diversity of tools and content in
  hands of learners and tutors
• in agricultural education
• learning technology (LT) specifications
  standards not widely adopted/implemented
• important to identify, collect report
  experience from large-scale implementations of LT
  specifications standards in the agricultural
  domain

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Who?

• researchers and implementers
• working on design development of
  technology-enhanced learning systems/services
• supporting needs of agricultural and rural
  communities

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Aim of session

• serve as a discussion forum
• present results of ongoing work
• exchange experience
• establish liaisons between groups working on
  related subjects
• overall
• outline the rich potential of the agricultural
  domain as an application field for LT standards

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Outline

• 1 invited speaker
• 6 paper presentations
• 3 system demos