The following educational technologies and methodologies are immediately available to Members:  

Learning objects multilingual indexation.  

Learning objects capitalization, sharing and reuse.  

Learning objects authoring (courseware type specific authoring).  

Capture of socio geographical learners  data.  

Design of socio geographically targeted curricula.  

Learning objects selection and assembling in targeted curricula.  

Design of web distributed distance courses.  

Best practices in the use of interactive communication technologies.  

Best practices in management of small, medium and large ODL courses.  

Software design and development expertise, accumulated by Europe s best IT/ODL academic departments 

and ARIADNE engineers in building educational software tools, might also be exchanged and transferred to 

those members that volunteer to participate in the Foundation tools  further development:  Open source  or 

 Free/Libre software  development models may, later on, be used by the Foundation to maintain/improve its 

tools. 

There are a number of tools available: 

SILO: With silo, you can Search & Index Learning Objects. 

Federated Search (GLOBE): Two experimental tools that federate queries to both Merlot and Ariadne 

repositories are available.  

Integrated Learning Management Systems: An experimental tool that queries the ARIADNE KPS is 

integrated in two LMS. In both cases, you ll need an account to login those LMS; try "invited" for login and 

"invited" for password.  

Metadata 

IEEE LOM and Dublin Core 

Standards 

Content 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Packaging 

Features 

Mixture of content primarily text documents, some rich media 

Multilingual German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Romanian 

An authoring tool `KPS' is available 

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