Steve Rogers and Mark Power

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Interoperability in Action

• Presented By
• Steve Rogers and Mark Power

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Speakers

• Steve Rogers Technical Officer EDINA
• NLN Materials Delivery Project
• JORUM
• Mark Power
• CETIS X4L Support Officer

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Session Details

• 1 Introductions
• Overview presentation
• Demonstration 20 mins
• 4 Summary
• 5 Questions Discussion

10 mins
10 mins
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X4L Programme

• X4L is a current JISC programme, which is
  exploring the re-purposing of JISC-funded
  content, suitable for use in learning.
• Strand A - 22 Content Production Projects
• Strand B - Tools Development
• JORUM Repository Research Development
• RELOAD Packaging Learning Design, available
  now free open source
• TOIA question and assessment application,
  soon to be released to UK FE HE communities

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X4L Interoperability

• Interoperability - the ability of two or more
  systems or components to exchange information and
  to use the information that has been exchanged..
• users are not locked into proprietary systems
• transportable between different systems
• production of conformant reusable LOs that are
  re-purposable
• accessible to a range of tools and LMS

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Why interoperability? - Scenarios

• 1 - lecturer finds content that another has put
  into a repository
• - exports that content and runs it from a VLE
• 2 - resource team finds content that a lecturer
  has put into a repository
• - resource team re-purposes that content
• - resource team exports that content and runs
  it from a VLE

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Interoperability and the JISC IE

JISC LO repository
Search/harvest
NLN repository
OAI Z39.50 RSS
provision layer
NLN portal
Presentation layer
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Interoperability and X4L

Repository 1 (e.g. intraLibrary)
Repository 2 (e.g. Xtensis)
IMS CP Export
Search/Retrieve
LO import/ creation
provision layer
Search interface
Presentation layer
Packager/editor Tool e.g. Reload
VLE 1 VLE 2
VLEs, authoring tools, TOIA
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Specifications

• The main specifications of interest are
• IEEE LOM (learning object metadata)
• IMS Content Packaging
• IMS QTI (question test interoperability)
• ADL SCORM (sharable content object reference
  model)

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Demonstration Aims

• What are the aims of the demonstration?
• Show that we can transport packages between
  systems
• Can make packages available to users through a
  variety of players
• Show how conformance facilitates re-purposing of
  content
• Identify areas requiring further progress, such
  as qti

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Demonstration
What is being demonstrated ?

• search and retrieve content from JORUM
• export and open in RELOAD
• re-purpose in RELOAD
• search and retrieve questions from TOIA
• aggregate with content using 3rd party player and
  RELOAD
• import into VLEs (Olympus WebCT)

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Demonstration
search and retrieve from JORUM
search and retrieve from TOIA
Combination Logic
Logic Questions
Export Combination Logic
Create new question
Export 3 Logic qti questions
Import into RELOAD
delete unwanted content
Aggregate New Content
Aggregate 3 Logic qti questions
Export from RELOAD
Import into VLEs
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Demonstration
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Summary

• What have we been able to show?
• can exchange objects between repository systems
• can export objects from repositories and
  re-purpose in other tools
• can import qti assessments into existing
  content, but currently with some intervention
• Can transport this re-purposed content to a
  number of VLEs

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weblinks

• JORUM www.jorum.ac.uk
• RELOAD www.reload.ac.uk
• TOIA www.toia.ac.uk
• X4L One Year On Website www.x4l.org
• Canvas Learning Player www.canvaslearning.co.uk
• Xtensis eLearning Ltd www.xtensis.co.uk
• Intrallect www.intrallect.com