ELearning Standards Perfecting the Irrelevant

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E-Learning StandardsPerfecting the Irrelevant?

• Maxine Brodie
• CAUL Meeting Teaching Learning Forum Hobart 2004

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Outline

• E-Learning Standards Activities
• Process
• Practicalities
• Metadata (LOM), Re-usable content (IMS, SCORM)
• !DEA-Lab
• Frameworks
• ELF, CORDRA
• Action
• FRODO
• ADL Co-Lab?

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Open Standards Process
Time
Brad Wheeler, AliLab 2004
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Commercial vendors vary in the degree of their
commitment to, and delivery of, flexible,
interoperable systems that are truly based on
open standards.
--- Chris Vento, Syllabus, April 2004
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Scenario B
Goodwill or marketplace pressure invokes
re-write to the specification
But
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A second discontinuity for vendors is the
double-edged sword of creating true
interoperability while selling unique value.
Customers want open systems using open standards,
but the very act of truly achieving this
commoditizes the proprietary value of a systems
uniqueness.
Educause Review, June/July 2004
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Practicalities are standards being used?
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Metadata

• International LOM survey which elements are
  used and how?
• Currently about 1/3 to ½ of the elements used
  many of these in common with DC
• Is further development valuable or perfecting
  the irrelevant?
• Fewer and better defined elements may be more
  effective than the current range of choices,
  particularly for educational elements
• Clear and easily supported means of working with
  local, customised vocabularies
• Structures to accommodate complex but more
  conventional aspects of resources description eg
  multiple title, language

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Reusable Content - Content Packaging Metadata

• IMS Content Packaging Specification v1.1.3
• SCORM compliance metadata and packaging
• Metadata IEEE LOM and IMS Learning Resource
  Metadata

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SCORM

• Sharable Content Object Reference Model
• harmonised set of guidelines, specifications and
  standards designed to foster creation of reusable
  learning content
• Produced and maintained by ADL Advanced
  Distributed Learning
• Appears to have critical mass for
  competency-based training

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(Dan Rehak, Carnegie Mellon Learning Systems
Architecture Lab at !DEA 2004)
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!DEA-Lab 2004

• Practical opportunity for developers of content
  management tools and systems to test whether
  educational content can be read and stored by
  systems
• Digital repositories
• Virtual learning environments
• Content management systems
• Utilities
• 30 providers met for 2 days in Melbourne 16-17
  August

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How did they do? IDEA-Lab results
17 Content Providers
11 Consumers
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Frameworks the ones to watch
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Kerry Blinco (IDEA,2004)
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E-Learning Standards and E-Learning
Infrastructure
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What does this mean right now?
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FRODO

• Meeting held between ARROW and APSR facilitated
  by IT-019 agreed to
• Look at relevance of ELF and CORDRA to define
  common business requirements that may then
  benefit from a harmonised standards approach and
  which may assist in the middleware and MAMS
  discussions
• Look at longer term relevance of using LOM
  metadata profile that is SCORM compliant

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