The AgroLT 2008 Workshop was held with success on the 19th of September in the facilities of the Agricultural University of Athens with support of the Organic.Edunet project (Greek Research and Technology Network) and the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF, http://aglr.aua.gr/). The workshop was attended by approximately 20 persons. Interesting presentations were made and future actions were discussed on various issues, especially focusing on the AgLR-TF and its future actions.

The AgroLT 2008 Workshop brought together researchers and implementers that are working on the design and development of technology-enhanced learning systems and services to support the needs of the agricultural and rural communities. It served as a discussion forum where interested experts presented the results of their work, exchanged experiences, and established liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. Overall, it succeeded in outlining the rich potential of the agricultural domain as an application field for learning technologies.

Topics included, but were not limited to:
• Describing and categorising agricultural learning resources using standards such as IEEE LOM and DC
• Designing and building learning repositories for agriculture and rural development
• Federating and querying agricultural repositories
• Describing learning opportunities for agricultural stakeholders
• Interoperable curricula definitions for agricultural and rural education
• Creating and representing learning activities for agricultural stakeholders
• Representing agricultural competencies in a reusable manner
• Agricultural skills and competencies using transparency and mobility frameworks such as Europass
• Learning technologies standards & specifications for mobile learning applications

More Information about the Workshop's schedule and results here:
http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/agrolt/2008/