creating discoverable learning content using a user-friendly authoring environment
DESCRIPTION
Digital learning content is becoming more and more commonplace. However, the creation of this learning content is usually done in specialized publishing platforms, that may lock in the content. This prevents the learning content from being discovered automatically, and hinders its uptake. A more general approach for authoring discoverable learning content is needed. We built a user-friendly authoring environment for creating digital publications, enriched with multimedia and interactivity features. This authoring environment outputs the created content in open formats, independent of any publishing platform. We adjusted our authoring environment to create semantically enriched learning content using the RDFa syntax, without the need for manual intervention. This presentation and accompanying video (users.ugent.be/~bjdmeest/lile_demo.mp4) shows how well-structured and well-annotated digital learning content can be created and validated using our authoring environment. The result is a discoverable publication in an open format, ready to be distributed as is, or ready to be imported in existing publishing platforms.TRANSCRIPT
Creating Discoverable Learning Content Usinga User-Friendly Authoring Environment
Ben De MeesterHajar Ghaem Sigarchian, Tom De Nies, Anastasia Dimou,
Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens, Rik Van De Walle
University Ghent – iMinds – Multimedia Lab
Linked Learning meets LinkedUp: Learning and Education with the Web of DataCollocated with ISWC2014
On the menu:
Discoverable Learning Content in EPUB 3…
… and the authoring environment to make that happen
Demo
Discoverable Learning Contentin EPUB 3…
L/CMS
SCORM/…
LOM
Distribution
Package format
Metadata
Current situation
L/CMS
SCORM/…
LOM
Distribution
Package format
Metadata
Current situation
Closed ecosystem
L/CMS
SCORM/…
LOM
THE WEB(including L/CMS)
EPUB 3/EDUPUB
SCHEMA.org/…
(including LOM via LRMI)
Alternative
BUT…
You can’t (practically) create linked content like this:
The user-friendlyAuthoring Environment
to make linked learning content
Next steps
Exploit EPUB 3/semantic annotations
Auto-discoverability of learning content
User testing the Authoring Environment
Increase capabilities of e-reading for better learning
Our project
Our pilot project partners:
Special thanks to SWSA for support in the form of a travel grant
Link to the paper: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1254/2_meester.pdf