UNITN - The passion for learning and knowing

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Organizational and Learning are online available as 2 pdf files: UNITN - The passion for learning and knowing. About 1600 pages worth of holiday readings.
Found this stuff via Wilfred Rubens, via Graham Attwell, via Stephen Downes

EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online

EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online can turn out to be a valuable source of information for our EUREA project and website. It provides a newsfeed on higher education resources online !!!
It is linked to a portal which offers a gateway to repositories of Higher Education Resources (though it may not be a harvester or a metadatabase). Need to follow-up...

Communities of Practice: The Role of Classification Schemes and Taxonomies - E-Learning Queen

Through Stephen Downes' OLDaily, I stumbled on to this: An interesting stroy of a teacher looking for learning materials to re-use:E-Learning Queen: Communities of Practice: The Role of Classification Schemes and Taxonomies Could be quite useful for the EUREA project, as a possible use-case or scenario.
The conclusion of the post seems to be that taxonomies and classification schemes (such as the ones that we are investigating in our LERU-projects, are indispensable. Stephen Downes disagrees with this conclusion though.