A seminar on open educational resources was organized in Tallinn by Tallinn University. The event took place on April 20th, 2010, 10.00- 14.00. The local audience was 22 international students from 15 countries (Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Pakistan, Philippines, Serbia, Taiwan, Uganda and Vietnam).

Presentations were provided by:
Mart Laanpere (Head of the Educational Technology Centre, Tallinn University): Integrating LOR with teachers' community portal and LO authoring tools: Estonian experience.

The slides from the nordlet regional event on Open Educational Resources in primary and secondary education in Aarhus, Denmark, May 5, 2010, are available online (in Danish).

http://www.cil.au.dk/index.php/component/content/article/20-diverse/90-s...

A nordlet regional event on Open Educational Resources in primary and secondary education is planned in Aarhus, Denmark, May 5, 2010. Read more:

http://www.cil.au.dk/index.php/arrangementer/4-cilarrangement/86-seminar...

An international conference was organized in Kaunas by Vytautas Magnus University with the participation of BALDIC project annual conference where Nordlet project was in focus.

The event took place in Kaunas, Vytautas Magnus University, Great Aula, on April 12-13, 2010.

124 participants were present all in all.

The conference "Baltic - Nordic flexible learning: resources and tools" was broadcasted online LIVE, and the link as well as the agenda will be presented at conference blog at

http://conference.liedm.net - under Discussions area

Direct link http://conference.liedm.net/?cat=1

The remaining videos from the Nordlet Open Forum have now been published at http://www.iml.umu.se/nordlet/webcasts/ The reason that it took us this long was that one of the SD-card crashed and we had to recover the files, but now all the speakers are there!

The first webcasts from the Nordlet/iCoper Open Forum are now available at http://www.iml.umu.se/nordlet/webcasts/. More to come soon!

Nordlet project was presented to Nordplus Network for Teacher Education project partners at Vytautas Magnus University.
12 teachers from Nordil-Baltic countries met to deliver lessons, to share didactical solutions, to discuss the potential of the shift of education at Vytautas Magnus University Department of Education on November 9-13, 2009.

One of the objectives of the meeting was to analyze of existing practices of teacher education in partner institutions in order to prepare more intensive cooperation and mobility.

Nordlet project, along with OpenScout project, TeaCamp project innitiative and the idea of OER, as well as challenges awaiting for educators were introduced in the session
"Teacher virtual mobility, video conferences, possible tools, and other challenges".

The European Commission currently discusses the topic of e-skills and the use of e-learning contents to improve skill gaps for the European workforce. The recent study "European Exchange Mechanism for e-Learning Content for e-Skills and Networking of Training and Research Centres" (see http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/files/eskills__elearning_en.pdf ) includes NORDLET as a point of reference for activities in the field. The outcome of the study shows the needs of integrating European initiatives and creating portal solutions - the consequences are not clear, but NORDLET will definetely contribute towards such a European initiative.

Vytautas Magnus University Distance Study Centre organizes a regional workshop

Open Education Resorces for New Virtual Study Perspectives

Norldet project workshop took part on November 20, 2009, at 15:00 (CET+1)
at Vytautas Magnus University
K. Donelaičio 52-322
Kaunas
and was broadcasted via internet. The following presentations were made and recorded: