Elearning and Libraries

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E-learning and Libraries

• ELAG 2005 WS 5
• Geneve
• 1-3 June 2005

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WS 5 Participants

• Anna Maria Tammaro (IT)
• Gian Carlo Dalto (IT)
• Francoise Felicite (SW)
• Milos Petrovic (SL)
• Jiri Pavlik (CZ)
• Gordana Popovic (SL)
• Anne Christine Robert (SW)
• Laura Wray (SW)

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Content

• Integration of Library and Virtual Learning
  environments
• standards, architectural modelling and interfaces
• Interoperability
• Distributed resources discovery
• organisation, procedures, collaboration
• Metadata
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Challenge and opportunities

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E-learning approaches

• (1) Content and support which, in essence, is
  the traditional model of delivery, whereby
  content is static and central to learning and
  backed up by conventional or off-screen support.
• (2) Wrap around which implies higher levels of
  interaction with the content itself and which, in
  turn, may become more dynamic. It equates with
  the cognitive learning theory the knowing
  how.
• (3) Integrated which employs a community of
  learning approach whereby learning become
  collaborative and support is mutual.
• (Mason 1998)

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What is a Learning Object?

• Whatever could be used for a learning objective
• Has the characteristics of
• Granularity
• Re-usability
• Self-consistency
• Accessibility
• Portability

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E-learning and Libraries
VRD
Library Portal
Repository
User
Tutorial
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Learning object repository system and services
Collection Mngt
Metadata editing
Evaluate / Monitor
Preservation
Provide Access
Provide support
IPR / Licences
Administer
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Integration with VL environment
Portal
Metasearch Federated search
Metadata
Elearning environment
INTEROPERABILITY
Courses presentation and delivery
Learning Objects Repository
Develop learning content Monitoring students
Digital Library
Open URL Proxy
Common services Users registries
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Content free learning environment
Elearning environment
Metadata
Learning Objects
Indexing Service
OAI-Rights
OAI-PMH
Digital Library
User registries
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Organisation, procedure, collaboration
challenge and opportunities
Top down
Consortia level
National level
Library level
Institutional level
Bottom up
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Librarians as change actors

• Enhance e-learning quality
• Metadata
• Content
• Service
• Indicators of libraries impact on learning
• Promotion and exploitation
• Academic actors do not take advantage of the
  entire offer
• Improve interaction with communities of academics
  and students
• Challenge of improving library internal workflow
  and decision making
• Update their knowledge and skills with e-learning

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Thanks for attention!

• Good bye and good luck for your Learning Objects
  repository realisation!