Interoperability has been judged essential in order to realize an open infrastructure for learning that can put a wide diversity of tools and content in the hands of learners and tutors. It allows the preservation of crucial learning and teaching information (such as competency profiles, learning activities, learning metadata and resources), as well as its future reuse among a large number of different systems and repositories. Recent standardization and specification efforts in the area of learning technologies have improved this vision.

On the other hand, in the field of agricultural education, the specifications and standards produced by groups and bodies working on learning technologies have not yet been widely adopted and implemented. It is essential to identify, collect and report experience from the large-scale implementation of learning technology specifications & standards in the agricultural domain. Sharing this experience with other people working on similar topics, and providing feedback from such implementations to standardization initiatives of the agricultural information management domain, can prove valuable. Apart from leading towards a wider dissemination of learning technology standards for educational applications, it can help us reaching a potential consensus of related work by comparing and harmonizing similar/competing approaches.

The aim of the AgroLT 2008 Workshop is to bring 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 aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present the results of their work, exchange experience, and establish liaisons with other groups that are working on related subjects. Overall, it aims to outline the rich potential of the agricultural domain as an application field for learning technologies.