Scalable LOR Deployment

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Scalable LOR Deployment

• Griff Richards
• BCIT Technology Centre

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Vision

• Sustainable eLearning Environments growing in an
  eco-system of scalable components for core,
  community and individual participants.

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Critical Success Factors

• Instant gratification
• Robust tools
• Ease of use

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Current Situation

• Large Solutions for communities
• Portal approach gt Maintenance Support Issues
• Individuals shy away from control

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A brief history of time

• POOL I- Centralized not whole solution
• POOL II- POOL ,POND SPLASH
• Napsterish P2P for individuals AND orgs
• Scalable tools
• eduSource Communications Layer (ECL)-
  interoperability in a global community
• Now linking ECL P2P with OKI Internet 2

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eduSource Communities
Reviewers
Learners
BC Campus
Queens Printer
Instructors
Parents
Big School District
NSDL
Third parties
SMETE
EdNA
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Reframing Interoperability
Web pages
Repositories
Semantic Web
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Interoperability begins with intent
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eduSource Guiding Principles

• Open systems
• Common standards
• Interoperability
• Stakeholder input and community building are
  essential

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MIT Open Knowledge Initiative
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Some Current Research Frontiers

• Interoperability
• Semantic Web
• MetaData interchange
• Trust and authentication
• Adoption by educators
• Quality and Community
• e-Portfolios
• Learning Design

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The world does not stand still.

• Adoption of technology is based upon how well or
  how timely it solves todays problems or creates
  a new vision of the future.

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Convergence?

• Organizational Knowledge
• Community Knowledge
• Personal Knowledge
• Independent yet linked
• Tools for real user needs

The rights to create, to consume, to contribute
and to manage knowledge
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Trends

• Cost reductions through reusability of content
  and infrastructure components
• Collaboration in open source developments
• Scaleable solutions
• Interoperability is key
• Issues
• Moving Target
• On-going support
• Tight time
• Us

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Needs Trade-offs?

• Secure vs open
• Content vs constructivism
• Central tracking vs e-portfolios
• Schooling vs independent learners
• Core infrastructure vs decentralized SDs
• Scope Surrey, BC, Canada, the world

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Recommendations

• Move quickly but flexibly
• Embrace variety of solutions
• CAREO SPLASH 3rd party solutions
• Variations of tools for different users
• Identify use cases and benchmarks
• Interoperability of systems
• Self-defined communities
• Quality of experience

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• For further information please visit
• www.edusource.ca
• www.lornet.org
• www.lionshare.net
• Griff Richards
• griff_at_sfu.ca
• www.edusplash.net