open learn cetis meeting feb 2008
DESCRIPTION
Presentation by Ross MacKenzie @ joint CETIS Assessment/EC SIG meeting 19/2/08TRANSCRIPT
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OpenLearn and
Common Cartridge
Ross Mackenzie
Sarah Wood
The Open University
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OpenLearn Project• The Open University Open Content pilot
– Creative Commons license
• Funded by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• $9M over two years
• www.open.ac.uk/openlearn
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Goals / Targets / Dates• Provide OU learning materials to world-wide audience
• 5400 study hours from all curriculum areas– in a learning environment (based on Moodle)– bite size learning (5-30 hours)
• Development of learning communities and tools
• First phase of project ends mid-2008
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Development Approach• Material drawn from OU archive (mostly print & AV)
– Appropriate for small chunks– Rights OK
• Material transformed into XML format allowing re-rendering into multiple formats– Initial work outsourced, then refined by OU specialist
staff
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LearningSpace/LabSpace
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LearningSpace/LabSpace
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Portable Content• Multiple formats
• XML key underlying technology
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IMS Global Learning Consortium• Membership organisation aimed at “enhancing learning
worldwide through the use of technology”– c. 100 members from HE, publishers and educational
technology companies
• Technical specifications / standard
• Learning Impact
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OU Cartridge Collection• Manual
– Initial 10 hand-crafted from Content Packages– Fairly straight-forward
• Automatic– Part of standard OpenLearn production process– c. 400 Cartridges now available.
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Publishing Tool
XSLT – Manifest/HTMLGeneration
Course Content
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OU Cartridge Collection• OU cartridges are simple examples
– Content plus forums
• Don’t yet have assessed activities
• How confident are we about our cartridges?– Fairly !
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CC Alliance
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Evaluating Cartridges• Chicken & Egg
• Content & Platforms
• Which comes first ?
• http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html
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Issues• Testing & Certification
• Cartridge Creation Tools
• Platforms & Players
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Testing• Test Suites
– Full set of cartridges close to completion– Pearson are developing a Gold Standard Cartridge
• Testing Services– Potentially, but could be expensive
• Self Test– First Version (beta) end March
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Cartridge Creation Tools• OU Publisher
– Production not in Moodle
• eXe– XML course creation tool
• Grava (Microsoft)
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Cartridge Desktop Players• UCompass
– based on Adobe Air technology
• Microsoft– based on Silverlight technology
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Cartridge Platform Players• Angel - done
• Ucompass - done
• Sakai – sort of
• Moodle – not yet
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OpenLearn Common Cartridge ExportsAngel Learning
Ucompass Enrich
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Questions