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Dear Colleagues,<br><br>
you may be aware of Open Archive initiative
(<a href="http://www.openarchives.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.openarchives.org/</a>) which is actively supported by our
colleagues in Physics, Mathematics, Computer-Science or Biology. (see for
example
<a href="http://arxiv.org/" eudora="autourl">http://arxiv.org/</a>).
Unfortunately, "<i>Technology for human learning</i>" (or any
of its instance CAI, ITS, AIED, ILE, etc.) is not covered even as part of
the computing research repository
(<a href="http://arxiv.org/corr/home" eudora="autourl">
http://arxiv.org/corr/home</a>) of the ArXiv. There exists some
initiative, like the French ones
(<a href="http://archiveseiah.univ-lemans.fr/" eudora="autourl">
http://archiveseiah.univ-lemans.fr/</a> or
<a href="http://edutice.archives-ouvertes.fr/" eudora="autourl">
http://edutice.archives-ouvertes.fr/</a>) but none international in our
best knowledge.<br><br>
For this reason, the European research network Kaleidoscope has taken the
initiative of launching an open archive to cover our field: TeLearn
(<a href="http://www.telearn.eu/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.telearn.eu/</a>). This archive welcomes all literature from
research, R&D and innovation in the field of <i>Technology for Human
Learning</i>. A characteristic of TeLearn it that it is fully
international: it welcomes contribution in whatever language and indeed
is not restricted to either Kaleidoscope membership or European research
units.<br><br>
Our current achievement provides the community with a repository, but
there is more to come among which tools to intelligently and efficiently
search the content of the database, and tools to facilitate the building
of communities of researchers sharing common interest on top of the
content we share. <br><br>
By the message I invite you all to join. Attached you will find a minimal
indication on the way to navigate the first pages to become affiliated. I
also join a document in which I share my view of the TeLearn challenge,
you may be interested to discuss it.<br><br>
All your suggestions are welcome. One of them could be to set a special
G1:1 collection and easy thing to and quite in-line with our original
initiative<br><br>
I wish you all a great and fruitful 2007<br>
Happy new year<br>
best<br>
Nicolas<br><br>
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Dr. Nicolas Balacheff<br>
CNRS Senior Scientist<br><br>
Kaleidoscope scientific manager<br>
<a href="http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org<br><br>
</a>46 avenue Félix Viallet<br>
38000 Grenoble -- France<br><br>
Tél: +33 4 76 57 50 67</body>
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