Pedagogically informed metadata for learning and teaching

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Pedagogically informed metadata for learning and
teaching

• Lester Gilbert and Onjira Sitthisak
• Learning Societies Lab
• School of Electronics and Computing Science
• University of Southampton

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Some areas of difficulty in E-learning

• E-learning
• Content-focussed and assessment-oriented
• Metadata standards for education
• Dublin Core and IEEE-LOM do not present
  sufficiently fine grained semantic information
  resources for pedagogical reasoning
• Metadata content and structure
• Lack of pedagogically-informed metadata content
  and structure
• Existing standards more suited to library and
  repository management
• Resulting problems
• Institutional admissions matching personal
  profiles against course requirements
• Personal choice deciding upon the right
  programme of study
• Cross-border mobility transferring skills and
  meeting professional or regulatory requirements
  etc

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An approach

• ELSYEA model of learning and teaching
• Learning transactionIdentify the relevant
  pedagogical design factors
• MetadataIdentify the metadata implied
• OntologiesIdentify the ontological underpinning
  required of the metadata
• ApplicationsMatch competency gaps to course
  provisionExplore equivalence between
  curriculaHarmonize EU regulations etc

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ELSYE1 model
1 Gilbert Gale, 2007. E-Learning Systems
Engineering, Chandos.
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Designing the learning transaction
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Designing the learning transaction
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Metadata derived from ELSYE model
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Metadata derived from ELSYE model
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Metadata derived from ELSYE model
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Metadata derived from ELSYE model
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Ontology underpinning for metadata
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Application
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By the way a competence model
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Conclusion

• Questions, comments, discussion