“We are not alone!” – Truly exchanging Learning Objects between Moodle and other LMS

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Have you ever asked the following question:« How could I connect my Moodle platform with another LMS? » During my talk, I will present a solution, conceived of at the University of Geneva, to connect the Moodle platform with other LMS (e.g., Chamilo, OLAT) and with a Swiss national learning repository, known as SwitchCollection.These connections allows teachers to share their resources (documents, ppt presentation) and activities (wiki, glossary, quiz, etc.) with other teachers working in various teaching environments. Sharing such learning resources is reminiscent of the Open Educational Resources (OER), whereupon depending on the license agreement teachers can modify the content and reuse it in their courses.Technically, our solution is based on two main elements: * A repository using Fedora Commons (FedoraLOR.unige.ch) to collect and render sharable and harvestable the various resources and activities. * Import/export LMS modules for converting resources and activities into a standard format (IMS CP and IMS QTI) and storing them in the repository.A live demo will illustrate the whole concept. We will conclude by sharing with the audience some thoughts about what we think could be potential barriers behind OER (copyright issues, philosophy of sharing, etc.) and propose ways to handle such difficulties.

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“We are not alone!” – Truly exchanging Learning Objects between Moodle and other

LMS

Patrick Roth and Laurent Opprecht

April 20, 2011

Objectives

• Current situation– 2 LMS (Dokeos and Moodle) + multimedia server – LO exchange impossible between LMS– No connection with Swiss national repository

“SWITCHcollection”

• Our goal– Make the LO exchange possible between LMS– Develop a connection with SWITCHcollection

Initial Goal

Moodle

LO LO

Dokeos

LO LO

OLAT

LO LOSWITCHcollection

LO Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

Initial Goal

Moodle

LO LO

Chamilo

LO LO

OLAT

LO LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions

• Add a repository– Product selected: Fedora

• Store digital objects: content and/or metadata• Easy communication with SWITCHcollection

• Develop import/export LO modules

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

Initial Goal

Moodle

LO LO

Chamilo

LO LO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LO LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions

• Add a repository

• Develop import/export LO modules– Simple LO – Complex LO

• For Quiz: encode to IMS-QTI• Otherwise: encode to IMS-CP• Keep the content (no IMS players)

Solutions: IMS-QTI import/export

Moodle Chamilo

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LO LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO

LO LO

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

matchingessay

Solutions: IMS-QTI import/export

LO

Chamilo

LO LO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LO LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LOChamilo

ordering

multiplechoice

matrixmatrix

multiplechoice

ordering

IMS-QTI

MoodleLO

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-QTI import/export

MoodleLO

ChamiloLO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO

LO

IMS-QTI

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-QTI import/export

MoodleLO

ChamiloLO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO

LO

IMS-QTI

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-QTI import/export

Moodle

LO LO

Chamilo

LOLO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

Moodle

LO

multiplechoice

matchingIMS-QTI

LO Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-CP import/export

Moodle

LO LO

Chamilo

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LO LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LOMoodle

link file glossaryfile glossarylink

IMS-CP

LO

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-CP import/export

MoodleLO

ChamiloLO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO

LO

IMS-CP

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-CP import/export

MoodleLO

ChamiloLO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LO

LO

IMS-CP

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

Solutions: IMS-CP import/export

Moodle Chamilo

LO LO

FedoraLOR.unige.ch

OLAT

LOSWITCHcollection

UniGE

UniZH

Switch

LOChamilo

filelink

LO

glossary

LO

IMS-CP

Learning Object• Resources: pdf, ppt, mp3, etc.• Activities: tests, forums, wiki, etc.

How it works

Demonstration

Next steps

• Modules and repository in production– Upgrade for Chamilo 2.0 and Moodle 2.0

• Connect more learning tools– Multimedia server – ePortfolio « Mahara »

Next steps

• Promote OER culture– Encourage sharing and reusing LO

Next steps

Promote OER culture: Barriers

Next steps

Promote OER culture: Solutions

More infos

• To obtain Moodle import/export modules– Check the « Modules and Plugins » repository at

moodle.org

Thank you : Patrick.Roth@unige.ch

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