Events organized by the Edukalibre Team:

• Jornada sobre Software Libre y Educación (2005/12/02): http://edukalibre.org/dissemination/jsle/event_view

This is a list of the dissemination activities carried out in the Edukalibre project:

• Who: Luis López Where: Jitel 2005, V Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática When: September 12-14, 2005 What: Presentation Edukalibre: colaboracion para la elaboracion de material didactico of paper Edukalibre: colaboracion para la elaboracion de material didactico
• Who: Diego Chaparro Where: IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005 When: October 19-22, 2005 What: Presentation The Edukalibre Project: Producing educational material in the libre way of paper Producing educational resources in the Libre Way: The Edukalibre Project
• Who: Riccardo Mazza, Christian Milani Where: Workshop on Usage analysis in learning systems. 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2005). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. When: 18 July 2005 What: Article Exploring Usage Analysis in Learning Systems: Gaining Insights From Visualisations
• Who: Diego Chaparro Where: I Congreso Tecnologías de Software Libre, Universidade de Coruña When: July 7-8, 2005 What: Presentation Edukalibre: una herramienta para la creacion colaborativa de material didactico of paper Edukalibre: una herramienta para la creacion colaborativa de material didactico
• Who: Vania Dimitrova Where: EDMEDIA 05 Conference When: 27th June - 1st July 2005 What: Presentation Development-oriented eLearning Tool Evaluation: the Edukalibre Approach of paper Development-oriented eLearning Tool Evaluation: the Edukalibre Approach
• Who: Vania Dimitrova Where: ARIES and MADMUC Seminar, University of Saskatchewan When: 13th June 2005 What: Presentation Semantic-enhanced personalised access to collaboratively constructed digital resources
• Who: Jesus G. Barahona, Luis Lopez, Teófilo Romera, Luis cañas Where: Third International Conference on Multimedia and Information & Communication Technologies in Education When: June 7-10 2005 What: Article Edukalibre: a tool for collaborative creation of educational material Virtual presentation The Edukalibre Project
• Who: Riccardo Mazza. Where: Convegno Internazionale Open Source 2005. Abano Terme (I) When: April 14-15 2005 What: Presentation Software Libero e modelli Open Content nella didattica (Italian)
• Who: Jesús G. Barahona, Chris Tebb, Vania Dimitrova, Diego Chaparro and Teófilo Romera. Where: First International Conference on Open Source Systems When: July 11th-15th, 2005 What: Paper Transferring Libre Software Development Practices too the Production of Educational Resources.
• Who: Lucca Botturi, Chris Tebb, Vania Dimitrova, Drew Withworth, Julika Matravers, Jutta Geldermann and Isabelle Hubert. Where: First International Conference on Open Source Systems When: July 11th-15th, 2005 What: Paper Development-oriented Open Source eLearning Tool Evaluation: the Edukalibre Approach
• Who: Jesús G. Barahona, Luis Lopez, Diego Chaparro and Luis Cañas. Where: "Foro hispano de .LRN y software libre educativo" in Madrid, Spain. When: May 10th-11th, 2005 What: Paper Edukalibre: a tool for collaborative creation of edukational material. This paper was presented by Teófilo Romera at the event. Slides
• Who: Teófilo Romera. Where: EESSDD III (Third Meeting on Distributed Systems) at Castellón, Spain. When: February 2nd-3rd, 2005 What: Presentation Proyecto Edukalibre (Spanish).
• Who: Riccardo Mazza, Christian Milani. Where: T.E.L.'04 CONFERENCE (Technology Enhanced Learning '04) in Milan When: November 18th-19th, 2004 What: Paper about GISMO: a Graphical Interactive Student Monitoring Tool for Course Management Systems
• Who: Jesús G. Barahona. Where: SIGOSSEE Public Seminar in Barcelona, Spain. When: November 2nd, 2004. What: Presentation Edukalibre project: exploring libre software models to produce educational materials. More info: SIGOSSEE is a network of interest in libre software for education, financed by the European Commission. They seem interested in our little toys, and I look forward for more collaborations with them.
• Who: Luis Cañas. Where: Spanish Moodle Moot in Castelló, Spain. When: October 29th, 2004. What: Presentation Modulo de gestion de documentos Edukalibre (spanish), about the Moodle's module for managing Edukalibre documents.
• Who: Evgenia Suzdaleva. Where: 5th International PhD Workshop on Systems and Control: a Young Generation Viewpoint in Balatonfured, Hungary. When: September 8th-11th, 2004. What: Presentation Preparing the teaching material for web-educational courses, about participating UTIA AS in the Edukalibre project.

Published announcements:

• Collab Moodle announced in freshmeat (2005/04/12): http://freshmeat.net/projects/edukalibre-collab-moodle/
• Repository manager announced in freshmeat (2005/03/07):

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/edukalibre-repository-manager/

• Collab announced in freshmeat (2005/03/07):

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/edukalibre-collab/

• Glue announced in freshmeat (2005/03/07):

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/edukalibre-glue

• Software released announced in elearningeuropa.info (2005/03/16):

  http://elearningeuropa.info/index.php?page=viewtopic&t=484&lng=en&sid=690a63eb29d2090fd2c35a9cb9074b3c

Press Releases:

The Edukalibre project releases software for teachers and pupils from all around the world to collaborate on creation of educational material. 2005-06-08

The Edukalibre Project, leaded by the Rey Juan Carlos University and founded by the European Commission, has released the first version of the software that is being developed to allow the collaborative creation of educational material. This software uses the Internet to help teachers and students to create together any kind of text (notes, papers, books, etc.), with no need for geographic proximity.

For instance, a teacher in a university in Madrid can create the first version of a book which may be used by teachers and students from different points all around Europe, who at the same time will be able to correct and improve the contents of the book.

The Edukalibre Project is being developed within the European Minerva program, for the introduction of new technologies in the classrooms, and there are six institutions cooperating on it in Sweden, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Germany, Portugal and Spain, coordinated by Jesús M. González Barahona, from the Rey Juan Carlos university.

The application of Internet-based information systems in educational environments is being the object of a strong interest by educational institutions of all kinds and specially by universities. This growing interest is mainly due to the fact that the implantation of this kind of systems can be very simple, cheap and does not require too much effort from the users, as the Internet is becoming more and more familiar for everyone. Also, these systems can provide the educational environments with all the possibilities that the Internet has in content management, multimedia, assisted distance learning, unattended collaboration, etc.

In this context, the software produced by the Edukalibre Project tries to advance in the line of providing educational institutions with suitable tools for the maximal exploitation of all the advantages offered by these new approaches to education. Moreover, the project tries to translate and adapt the customs and typical procedures of the Libre Software development model (such as distant collaboration or exhaustive version control) to the learning environments.

One of the main products of the project is the Edukalibre Platform, a set of software tools designed specifically for that task, that are being distributed as Libre Software.

The Edukalibre Platform allows the creation of repositories for the collaborative edition and management of documentation through the Internet and it is composed of three main modules: "Conversion Tools", a software tool capable of converting electronic documents to different formats (such as PDF, OpenOffice, HTML, LaTeX or Docbook); "Collab", a web-based interface to facilitate users the interaction with the system; "Repository Manager", the module in charge of storage and version control of the different documents in the system.

This software is now under a heavy and constant development and improvement process and the firsts versions are already available and working. Among others, tests in real environments are being carried out like in the Software Libre subject in the Computing and Mathematical Modeling PhD program in the Rey Juan Carlos University, where the students use the Edukalibre Platform to create the papers for their evaluation at the end of the term. In this same line, there also exist test groups in real courses in the School of Computing in the Leeds University, the Institute for Industrial Production in the Karlsruhe University and in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation in the Science Academy of Prague.

http://www.edukalibre.org

Software available here: http://www.edukalibre.org/software