SLOOP is an e-Learning and OpenContent project, funded by the European Commission. It promotes the sharing of free/open learning objects. The original idea is to apply the free software philosophy to the production of pedagogical materials for the e-learning. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Open content, coined by analogy with open source, (though technically it is actually share-alike) describes any kind of creative work including articles, pictures, audio, and video that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying of the information. ... Berlaymont, the Commissions seat The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. ... A learning object has been defined as the following: Any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training [1] Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning [2] Web-based interactive chunks of e-learning designed to explain a stand-alone learning... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

A Learning Object (LO) is, by definition, a reusable chunk of learning content: the reusability is the main motivation in favour of LOs. But if a LO is covered by copyright “all rights reserved” it can be reused from the technical point of view, but legally it is only reusable by the owner himself. The SLOOP Project has introduced the idea of free/open Learning Object: LO with a licence which allows the material to be used freely, to be changed and to be distributed; obviously the source code must be accessible. A learning object has been defined as the following: Any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training [1] Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning [2] Web-based interactive chunks of e-learning designed to explain a stand-alone learning... Source code (commonly just source or code) is any series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming language. ...

The SLOOP community includes teachers from many countries who share LOs. In the SLOOP Project has been developed freeLOms, a free LO management system.

SLOOP is the acronym of Sharing Learning Objects in an Open Perspective.

Website

SLOOP Logo

The address of the SLOOP site is: www.sloopproject.eu. The SLOOP site has been created using Moodle in order to have the possibility to deliver courses and to activate discussion forums as the Communities of practice are the base of the development of the project. Image File history File links SloopProjectLogo. ... Image File history File links SloopProjectLogo. ... Moodle is a free software e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS), or Learning Management Systems (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)). It has a significant user base with 25,281 registered sites with 10,405,167 users in 1,023,914 courses (as of May...

Project aim

The SLOOP Project aims

• to promote and facilitate the integration of face to face learning, work-based learning and e-learning in order to improve the quality and efficiency of the learning process;
• to customise learning paths by supporting them properly with multimedia learning objects;
• to facilitate the creation and the use of education tools (learning objects) which are free, re-usable and shared among teaching communities according to the free software philosophy.

The SLOOP Project aims to develop and promote a technological platform - named freeLOms - to create, save and use easy-to-access online teaching material, modifiable according to the open source philosophy. The goal is to create a collection so-called Learning Object to international standards such as SCORM for teacher training and student education. The SLOOP Project is funded with support from the European Commission under the European Commission "Leonardo da Vinci programme" – with partners in Italy, Ireland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain.[1] It follows the seventh objective of the Copenhagen Declaration: “Focus more on the learning needs of teachers and trainers who operate in education professional development”. This article is about free software as used in the sociopolitical free software movement; for non-free software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A learning object has been defined as the following: Any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training [1] Any digital resource that can be reused to support learning [2] Web-based interactive chunks of e-learning designed to explain a stand-alone learning... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Berlaymont, the Commissions seat The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. ...

Project partners

The SLOOP Project partnership

Image File history File links SloopPartnership. ... Image File history File links SloopPartnership. ...

Italy

• ITSOS (Istituto Tecnico Statale Sperimentale ad Ordinamento Speciale) “Marie Curie” di Cernusco sul Naviglio (promoter)
• CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche - Sezione di Palermo
• Formaper
• METID – Politecnico di Milano
• Scienter

Ireland

• Cork College of Commerce
• DEIS, Department of Education – Cork Institute of Technology

This article needs to be wikified. ...

Romania

• University “Dunarea de Jos” - Galati

Slovenia

• University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering

Spain

• FUOC, Fundación Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

External links

• www.sloopproject.eu
• Video interview on the SLOOP project
• Leonardo da Vinci Programme
• Slovenian version of the SLOOP site
• Cork, Ireland, version of the SLOOP Project

Image File history File links Free_Software_Portal_Logo. ...

Articles about SLOOP

• "SLOOP: a European Project focused on the realization of a shared repository of free Learning Objects" by Mara Masseroni e Pierfranco Ravotto, EXPO eLearning Ferrara (6-8 October 2005) [2]
• "SLOOP: un progetto europeo per un archivio condiviso di Free Learning Object" di Mara Masseroni e Pierfranco Ravotto, EXPO eLearning Ferrara (6-8 ottobre 2005) [3][4]
• "SLOOP: sviluppare un Free Learning Objects Management System" ("SLOOP: to develop a Free Learning Object Management System") by Pierfranco Ravotto, SieL Seminar in Florence (9-11 November 2005) [5]
• "Dalle scuole in rete a una rete di scuole per la realizzazione di free Learning Object" di Pierfranco Ravotto, Didamatica, Cagliari (11 - 13 maggio 2006) [6]
• "A collaborative 'open Learning Objects' management system" by Manuel Gentile, Davide Taibi, Mario Allegra, Giovanni Fulantelli - WSEAS - ENGINEERING EDUCATION 2006 (EE'06)- Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, (July 11-13, 2006) - Special Session: Methods and Tools for Managing Learning Objects [7]
• "Teachers make their expertise available online" - Evening Echo - Thursday September 28, 2006 [8]
• "Learn to teach on the Net" - Evening Echo - Thursday December 7, 2006[9]

References

• ISFOL-Leonardo da Vinci Italian Agency
• Italian Ministry of Education
• Italian National Research Council (CNR)
• Eduforge - freeLOms
• Universitas Galatiensis - Romania
• Politecnico di Milano
• QUeL, Qualità nell'eLearning
• Obiettivo Europa - Vetrina Progetti UE
• Learning Objects - KnowledgeIsFun.com