As part of the project goal to provide new interoperable ways of representing and sharing pedagogically complex models of collaborative learning activities, the team at TENCompetence have been making use of the IMS Learning Design specification for the production, storage, search, retrieval and quality rating of learning activities and units of learning.

As well as their R&D activities in the field ofpedagogical and learning activity modeling, the team will select and adapt existing tools and create new ones where necessary with a view to creating components that can be integrated as services within the Integrated TENCompetence System.

During the forthcoming IMS Quarterly Meetings in Heerlen, the Netherlands (6- 9 November 2006), the Learning Design Summit on November the 8th will discuss and explore the latest uses of IMS Learning Design Specification. Presentations of products and programs currently using Learning Design will be given as well as an panel session on the current state of the art and where LD is headed. The summit will provide a valuable
opportunity for Learning Design related presentations and discussions and will feature a useful summary of Learning Design work by project
Leader Rob Koper. Developments in the integration of QTI to IMS LD will also be presented and a TENCompetence project (www.tencompetence.org) sponsored reception will round off the day's events.

The meeting will be of interest to all those with a stake in IMS Learning Design as well as those who just wish to know more about recent and future developments of the specification, but space is limited and people are advised to sign up soon to avoid disappointment. For more information visit:
http://www.imsglobal.org/ldsummit2006.html