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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE061</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2005.12</article-id>
                        <article-categories>
            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Several Aspects of Technical and Pedagogical Evaluation of Virtual Learning Environments</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>KURILOVAS</surname>
                    <given-names>Eugenijus</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:eugenijus.kurilovas@itc.smm.lt">eugenijus.kurilovas@itc.smm.lt</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Centre for Information Technologies in Education, Ministry of Education and Science Suvalku 1, LT-01306 Vilnius, Lithuania</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                            <volume>4</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>215</fpage>
                        <lpage>252</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>10</month>
                        <year>2005</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>Currently virtual learning environments (VLEs) and learning objects (LOs) repositories are under active implementation into general education and vocational training system in Lithuania. The article aims to review LOs interoperability standards development tendencies as well as to compare VLEs under existing well-developed pedagogical and technical evaluation frameworks in order to suggest the most suitable one for wider implementation to support active socio-constructivist pedagogies in in-service teacher training and overall in Lithuanian general education and vocational training systems.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>learning objects</kwd>
                        <kwd>e-learning platforms</kwd>
                        <kwd>virtual learning environments</kwd>
                        <kwd>socio-constructivist pedagogies</kwd>
                        <kwd>evaluation</kwd>
                        <kwd>interoperability standards</kwd>
                        <kwd>learning design</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
    </article-meta>
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