Living Lab / Observatory
Welcome to the ICOPER Living Lab and Observatory! Here we aim at providing a space where communities of users are engaged in on-going R&D, where collaboration and interaction among all the stakeholders takes place to cultivate and enrich new ideas to promote dialogue among eContent end-users and stakeholders. All eContent players are invited and encouraged to participate in the shaping of ICOPER recommendations to standards bodies
eLearning Standards
ICOPER project addresses eLearning standards concerning issues such as exchange of competency models and learning outcomes, collaboration around learning designs, integration of content via federated search and harvesting, reuse of instructional models and content in learning deliver environments, interoperability of item banks for assessment and evaluation.
Further information about currently ongoing activity about standards can be found at the Learning Technology Standards Observatory
eContent Repositories
ICOPER project is working on granting access to a number of eContent repositories where eContent players may have access to resources that guide them throughout the eContent development process. Early access is granted from here, please take into account this is an on-going activity.
Standards Applications
Within the ICOPER project, a federation of repositories has been realized (OICS: Open ICOPER Content Space), with the aim of investigating federation and interoperability issues. Upon it, several TEL standards-based applications have been developed, with the common theme to support the whole value chain of outcome based learning via integration with existing systems and tools.
Further information about the OICS and the currently available applications can be found from here.
Pilot studies on standards and specifications:
- OICS
- .LRN application for managing assessment resources
- CLIX ICOPER Application
- Facebook Learning Outcomes Profile application
- iPolio Application
- learn eXact Enterprise ICOPER
- Outcome-oriented course in Learn@WU
- Moodle Recommendation Widgets
- UoL Search and Import and LOU export in Moodle
- OICS Teacher Recommendation Viewer
- OICS Learning Outcome Viewer application
- OICS roundtrip authoring re-use application
- OpenGLM application
- 2know2.com Application
Forum
If you have questions about our pilot applications or just wish to leave a feedback, please use our Forum.
Links to Experts and Consultants and Networking
The ICOPER Living Lab aims at promoting and supporting people's networking. Under this perspective we highlight the Learning Technology Standards Observatory.
SIGs & communities of practice
SIGs (Special Interest Groups) have a great importance for bringing together the stakeholder groups, organizing community building events such as workshops, learning cafes, virtual meetings and online seminars, and also reporting on the outcomes resulting from the stakeholders networking events. We highlight the Competency SIG.
Events
Best Practices and standards are nowadays a hot topic for eLearning. Several events take place continuously all across the world, we highlight some events at the following links:
News
News about eLearning and standardization are accessible here.
ISUREs, publishable research results
As the ICOPER projects focuses on best practices and guidelines on elearning standards and practices, a number of reports are elaborated. They are called "ISUREs" (ICOPER Suitability Reports for Better Practice) and the currently available ones, together with public project deliverables, are accessible here.
