In September, we organised a symposium on Personal Learning Environments at the the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009), "an international attempt to promote the dialogue for the main aspects of the Knowledge Society towards a better world for all."

Andreas Schmidt represented MATURE and its approach to competency definitions at the informal IEEE LTSC WG20 meeting. Its goal was to establish a - standardization body independent - group that develops a shared understanding of competency data management. A position statement was presented and lively discussed:

LTRI has just released a Beta version of GLO Maker 2, a tool for easily creating interactive, multimedia learning objects that can be loaded into a VLE, or made available on the Web. The tool is open source and free to use for educational purposes. On the GLO Maker website there are also guides, animated tutorials and sample GLOs (generative learning objects) to show you how to use the tool and create your own learning objects. For more details and to download the free software, go to: http://www.glomaker.org

On July 2, 2009 LTRI (London Metropolitan University) hosted the successful MATURE Workshop on User Centred Requirements Processes for E-Learning and Knowledge Management – A European-Wide Perspective. The day enabled the cross fertilisation of ideas between MATURE and other key European projects, research centres and individuals. The formal presentations and discussions were of a high quality and the slides from these can be viewed by following the links for talks in the agenda (above). Furthermore, the informal discussion over coffee and lunch were insightful and wide-ranging.