Meeting: IEEE Learning Technologies Standards Committee

The next meeting of the IEEE Learning Technologies Standards  
Committee will take place on

             March 28-31 2006

ARIADNE, ProLearn and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven host the  
meetings at
        
           Departement Computerwetenschappen, Celestijnenlaan 200 A,  
           B3001 Leuven, Belgium

Highlights will include continued joint work on convergence between  
metadata standards, reference models for content aggregations and  
interoperability standards for representing and exchanging  
competencies, skills and learning objectives. Reports will be given  
on other projects, including a study group examining standards for  
interfacing SCORM with simulations and the formal IEEE process  
through which a recommended practice for Digital Rights Expression  
Languages is now going.

More information about the venue is available at
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/. Information about “how to get there” is at  
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/cs/algemene_info/plan/index-E.shtml. Leuven  
is a 20 min taxi ride from Brussels airport - it takes about as long  
to get to the center of Brussels :)

In order to deal with the logistics involved, we kindly ask you to  
send an email to erik.duval@cs.kuleuven.be if you plan to  
participate. We will provide sandwich lunch and coffee and would  
appreciate your financial support in the form of 50 euros or US  
dollars per person, to be paid in cash at the event. Please feel free  
to contact us if you have any questions regarding this meeting!

The draft agenda for the meeting is:

     * 28 March: Digital Rights Expression Language
     * 29 March: Learning Object Metadata
     * 29 March: Competency
     * 30-31 March: CMI-RAMLET

(The updated agenda will be available at http://ieeeltsc.org/about/ltscmarch2006meeting)

For hotels, we recommend:
    * Hotel binnenhof (102 euro, mention Kuleuven/Prolearn,
       http://www.hotelbinnenhof.be/)
    * Begijnhof Congresshotel (http://www.bchotel.be/eng/main_en.htm)
    * Theater Hotel (mention KULeuven, http://www.theaterhotel.be/)

A more complete list of hotels is available at http://www.leuven.be/showpage.asp?iPageID=1408. The venue is a 30 minute walk, or a 5 min taxi ride from Leuven city centre.

We are very much looking forward to welcome you in Leuven in five weeks!

--Erik Duval
http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd