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FuXMLPlatform for Content --- Cross-Media-Publishing System
FernUniversität in HagenUniversity forDistance Education –Teleteaching
Michael SteppingWorkshop at South Ural State University, December 15, 2006
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FernUniversität in Hagen
opened 1975, public university only single mode distance teaching university in
Germanyintegral part of regular higher education systemfully in line with conventional universities overall use of media in teaching and learningleading role in use of electronic media comprehensive Virtual University / mobile universitybasics-oriented and application-related research
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FernUniversitaet in former time
Lectures are split in lessons8 lessons per semesterEach around 40-80 pagesHomeworks, Assignments
Traditional: Paper sent via post-mail
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FernUniversitaet today
First Virtual Universities are developedsince 1995Target is to map real University life to virtual environments
LecturesLibraryEnrollment officeDean…
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Content
Content has to be enriched forMultimediaFirst version was simply PDF
(electronical but not multimedia)
Multimedia added value has to beprovidedSince 1997 development of animations
Multimedia animations
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Animations
First versions of animations(Hyperwave, Toolbook, etc) are no longer usable.Tools are no longer available
Today‘s animations are mainly built in shockwave, flash, and java.The required Runtime Environments areavailable on most Windows PCs
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Content formats so far
A lot of proprietary formats have beenused so far for electronic material:
Microsoft WordLatex / Tex / …Starwriter…
No long term stabilityConclusion:
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Content format
Conclusion:XML as format for content production:(Ascii-format, Unicode format, standardised,
non-proprietary, long-term stability)Problem:
Document type definition (dtd) or today‘sXML schema definition (xsd)
Development of openFuXML
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Document Type Definition
w/o Interoperability with Interoperability
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Document Type Definition
Agreement for a common XML-Structure has been done in the CampusSource Initiative.
Structure / Grammar for Learning content isready.Authoring systems have to be adapted
- DTD XSD
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Inhalte – Erstellung – Bearbeitung - Verwendung
openFuXML Toolbox(XML – Latex, HTML, PDF, XHTML)
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openFuXML
Authoring-Environment using a flexible document schemaRendering FrameworkOpen Source Product under the openSource GPL license
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Cross-Media-Publishing
Advantage: One content in several outputformatsAdvantage: Split of
content and layout.
Support of:Numbering, footnotes, literature references, marginalia, mathematic formulasDidactical elements
Logicial, content (chapter, paragraph)Timeline (lesson)Assignment, Homework, example, solution
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Beispiel
StructureElement DidacticalElement
SubjectElement(Comp. Science Module)
FormattingElement
<section>
<example>
<p>Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text</p>
<proglist>
<title>Programme Listing</title>
<verbatim>
String foo = null;
</verbatim>
</proglist>
</example>
</section>
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CampusSource DTD – cs.xsd
Common semantical concepts
LiteratureReferenceIndexFormulaImageTable
Concepts from the subject domain
MathematicsLawSocial Scienceetc.
Structural Devices
OrganisationPageSectionListParagraph
Concepts for visual Formatting
bolditalictabbingverbatim
Didactical concepts
ExampleHintCommentExercise
EditorialElement
SubjectElement
StructureElement
DidacticalElement
FormattingElement
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openFuXML - System
Production
Display
XML Preparation
HTML
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openFuXML output
Display:PC-DisplayInteractive CBTsMobile Phones….
PrintPaperCBT (Computer Based Trainings)CD-ROM / DVD…
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XML Editor (e.g. XMetal)
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System
Rule basedRendering Engine
PDF HTMLLayout
config.xml template.html styles.css
…
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Next development
Editor to-date: XMetalopenFuXML 2 (Q2 2007):
Word 2003 professionalWord 2007native XML-SupportStar-Office planned…
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Project CampusContent
Intentionally re-use of multimedia enrichedmaterial
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Additional information
www.openfuxml.orgwww.campussource.de
Contact:[email protected]@fernuni-hagen.de
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Contact
CampusSource Initiativeat FernUniversität in HagenUniversitätsstraße 1158084 Hagen
Internet: http://CampusSource.de
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Demonstration
XMetal – XML-file of course Digital Image Processing (Bildtechnik)Browser (HTML) – BildtechnikPDF – BildtechnikBrowser – Internet techniques –Animations as multimedia added value
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Thanks for yourattention!
Dr.-Ing. Michael SteppingFernUniversität in Hagen