e-Learning, from concept to practice

Re-use of materialStandards

Why Creating Material Web environment for part time students

Wide scale implementation Resources are growing fast Teachers started creating resources University level

1600 courses 50 - 300 objects in every course With a average of 100 objects a course, this

is 160.000 objects More then 10.000 users

Reuse of Material Partly reuse of old courses Teachers created resources themselves Update resources where necessary Removed out of date resources Why differ from “old” HTML based

courses? Ease of use Generated links Teacher “controls” the content

Content Combination of material

Data Metadata & (not always) Attachments

Video Applets Flash animations MS docs

Powerpoint Word Excel Plaatjes

Units of Learning Material (ULM) Objects, documents, records in the

database, digital content, Also Assignable units (AU) or Shareble Content Object (SCO)

“ a ULM is an abstraction which collects a variety of segments of learning material based on different media and featuring different layouts, languages and encoding types, with their differences concealed to offer a common and consistent interface to it’s clients. A Ulm may be a simple monomedia object or a composition in space time (layout) of several pieces of learning material; its multimedia message to the user possibily includes texts, still frames, dynamic sequences and digital audio “

TeleTOP Environment

Creating Content

Course Content

Direct copy Re-use

content

content

content

Larger Scale of Reuse Exchangeability

Other systems Availability

Publishers Other Universities

Courses, knowledge bases, project environments, portfolios, Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Departments Faculties University World

Larger Scale of Reuse (2) Creating material not using HTML Using templates that could be used

by everyone Making material available for

exchange trough metadata Using standards Learning Content Management

System (LCMS)

Metadata Describes the content/data

How is it related Where is it used for Who created it Who may read it How large is it When is it created What is the purpose of the content What is the subject …….IMS, IEEE, IACC, SCORM standards

Creating Metadata for Content

content

metadatacontent

Content Metadata Creation

Content Metadata List

Content Metadata Document

Learning Content Management System (LCMS)

content

metadatacontent

content

Selecting Resources

XML Exchange

metadata

SCORM and XMLSCORM

Title

MetadataScheme

CourseName

Cateloque

UniqueIdentifier

Language

Description

KeyWord

Keyword

Keyword

Keyword

Questions What keywords to

use? Who decides

about what? How to find &

select the right content?

Standards?

Discussion More problems identified? Do we really want to reuse? What standards do we need?

More Information

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