RELOAD

Reusable E-Learning Object Authoring and Delivery

Phil BeauvoirColin Milligan

funded by

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Summary of Presentation

• What we’ve done• Where we are• Where we’re going

• Demos

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Where we fit

CREATECONTENT

PACKAGE, TEST &

MANIPULATE[RELOAD]

STORE[REPOSITORY]

DELIVER[MLE]

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Aims of project

• Facilitate the creation, sharing and reuse of learning objects and services– generic ‘engine’ architecture

• Enhance the range of pedagogical approaches realisable through the use of lesson plans– bringing the specs to life.

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The Architecture

User Interface level

Middle layer: Widget factory etc

RELOAD Engine (parsing XML, helpers)

Metadata Spec.

Content Packaging Spec.

SCORM Impl.

Metadata UI controller

CP UI controllerSCORM UIcontroller

LD UI controller

Learning Design Spec.

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Where we are now

• Fully featured Editor for IMS Content Packaging

• SCORM functionality to allow easy assembly of SCORM content.

• Integrated Metadata Editor • SCORM Player• Reference Implementation for

Learning Design (incremental).

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The Editor

• Available now – www.reload.ac.uk

• Free and Open Source• IMS CP 1.1• IMS Metadata 1.2• SCORM 1.2

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What Next: Learning Design

• Beyond content• Complex activities, services and

roles on top of content• User Interfaces to support:

– Designing and – Manipulating LDs

• LD Player

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Dissemination

• Beyond the developer community• Collecting user needs and

feedback• Turin - ILO• Workshops and training

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Telcert and Unfold - EU

• TELCERT– Building on RELOAD

• Internationalization, Validators, More Specs (LIP), New User Interfaces, Application Profiles

• UNFOLD– Bringing these specs to a wider

community:• Developers > Implementers > End Users

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VDEX (Tina Manoharan, Phil Barker)Vocabulary Definition Exchange• Created a tool for editing VDEX

Vocabularies• Based on reload engine so cut

development time significantly– User community were quickly able to

see the specification in action.

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Further Developments

• Aloha – University of Calgary• HarvestRoad Hive and WebDAV• ADL – SCORM 1.3• Partners in developing Learning

Design• More…

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Aloha

• Advanced Learning Object Hub Application

• Project run by the Learning Commons at the University of Calgary, Canada.

• Developed a tool similar to RELOAD - editing of Metadata.

Aloha Metadata Editor

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Aloha

• Approached us in order to base their tool on the Reload Engine - “To build or migrate the best parts of Aloha onto the Reload code base…”

• Focussing on developing the Metadata Editor for Reload with multiple form views and profiles.

• Users will be able to define a Metadata "Profile" as consisting of a Schema, UI filter, Helper, and Vocabulary to use for the document.

Metadata Profile Editor 1

Metadata Profile Editor 2

Metadata Profile Editor 3

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HarvestRoad Hive and WebDav

• Australian company - www.harvestroad.com

• Federated Digital Repository System• Approached us to see if we would be

interested in incorporating a plugin so that Reload users can open and save directly into their web based repository using WebDAV

• www.webdav.org

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HarvestRoad and Reload

• So… Reload could eventually support distributed collaborative authoring

• HarvestRoad have done this so far:– 1 Launch Hive in a web browser– 2 Browse Hive content in a Tree and drag

items into the Resources area of the Reload Editor.

– 3 Use Hive Item Id's to create resources that link to items stored in Hive.

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ADL SCORM 1.3 Editor additions

• ADL approached us to add SCORM 1.3 Editing (we have 1.2)

• 1.3 adds Simple Sequencing• They have now added 1.3 support

to Reload Editor• Demonstrated at ADL Plugfest Oct

2003• Will be integrated later…• ADL Presentation

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Reload SCORM 1.2 Player

• Available now – www.reload.ac.uk

• Free and Open Source• Plays SCORM 1.2

Packages

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Contact

Phil Beauvoirp.beauvoir@bolton.ac.uk

Colin Milligancolin.milligan@strath.ac.uk

http://www.reload.ac.uk/