Records of GOLC Meeting in Villach June 2010.

It was noted that of the three activities planned at the January 2010 GOLC meeting in Sydney we completed the Terms of Reference and placed this on the website, we made a draft of the vocabulary , and (also posted to the website), but made little progress on the metadata.

Consequently, the committee decided to better focus the activities for presentation at the January 2011 GLC Meeting. The committee was members present were canvassed for topics which should be addressed , in the near term, and then prioritised these items. The most urgent three activities are described below.

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1. Derive metadata describing pedagogical attributes of the learning activities of remote laboratories.
2. Using this metadata, describe a representative sample learning activities based upon existing remote laboratories from within the GOLC community.
3. There needs to be a repository where all this information can be stored and easily accessed. It was decided by the committee members that rather than start developing a new software system we would make use of the Lab2Go system. This activity is to be reviewed at the next GOLC meeting, and a determination may made as to the success or not of this decision.

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• Deliverables:
  • Phase 1: A document describing the learning activity metadata (this is linked to the Technical Committee metadata document and will require coordination with the progress of that document).
  • Phase 2: A document describing the process of mapping a set of existing experiments
  • Phase 3: A demonstrable set of entries in the Lab2Go repository (coordinate this test with the Technical Committee test).
• Facilitators: Phil Long, Stephen Tuttle (with assistance from Christian Guetl for Phase 1)
• Due Dates:
  • Phase 1: August 27 2010 (9 weeks)
  • Phase 2: Oct 29 2010 (9 weeks)
  • Phase 3: December 3 2010 (5 weeks)

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