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Colin Milligan
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Reload Update: LD is coming.
© RELOAD 2004, funded by
Summary of Presentation
• What we’ve done.• Where we are now.• Where we’re going.
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Aims of project
• To facilitate the creation, sharing and reuse of learning objects and services– generic ‘engine’ architecture
• To enhance the range of pedagogical approaches realisable through the use of lesson plans– bringing the specs to life.
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Where we fit
CREATECONTENT
PACKAGE, TEST &
MANIPULATE[EDITOR]
STORE[REPOSITORY]
DELIVER[MLE]
CHECK[PLAYER]
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Content Package & Metadata Editor
• Available now – www.reload.ac.uk
• Free and Open Source• IMS CP 1.1.3• IMS Metadata 1.2• SCORM 1.2
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Editor Version 1.2/1.3
• v1.3 Released July 31st • Improved Previewer,• Export of preview files,• Internationalisation,• Flexibility,• Bug fixes – not many.
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SCORM 1.2 Player
• Available now – www.reload.ac.uk
• Free and Open Source• Plays SCORM 1.2
Packages
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Player Version 1.2
• Released July 31st
• Changes mainly ‘under the hood’– Apache Struts.
• Dynamic updating of SCORM packages,
• Now with Help and Manual.
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Current Status
• Both now stable,• OSS: Others are taking on
– many lessons learned!
• Focus away from development of new features, and onto support and maintenance.
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Reload as Benchmark
• Practical interoperability
• MLEs compared• Tips and Tricks• Idiosyncrasies• Problems
• Contribute?
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Reload Stats
• Editor v1.3:1,200 downloads (August) – (~80% PC, ~10% Linux, ~10% mac)
• Linux now more popular than mac.
• Editor v1.2: 2,400 downloads in 10 weeks
• Player v1.2: 600 downloads (August)
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What Next: Learning Design
• Beyond content,• Activities, Services and Roles on
top of content,• Complex, • LD Editor:
– To create IMS LDs.
• LD Player:– To visualise them.
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Learning Design & learning design
• Sandy Britain - Pedagogic Review of Learning Design Toolshttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?
name=project_elearn_ped_learning_design_tools
• LAMS
• Expectation
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LD History
• EML – OUNL,• Abstract Description,• Roles, Activities and Environment
(Services/Resources),• Interactions,• Information,• Play as metaphor.
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LD Editor ea
• Current build, UI in place, some underlying functionality,
• Implementing the spec. – and recognising where it is unwieldy,
• Builds on Reload Engine – Reload Editor v2.0.
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General Tab
• Top Level Information– Objectives– Requirements– Description– Overview.
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Resources Tab
• (in progress)• Similar to existing CP Editor• Manage resources needed by the
LD Editor
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The Main Screens
• Think of LD as describing how one or more players takes a ROLE (learners, teachers etc.) and performs a series of ACTIVITIES (browsing, assessment, discussion, simulation) in an ENVIRONMENT (learning objects and services).
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Roles Tab
• Two roles: student and staff• For each role defined, information
can be added to tailor the group e.g:– Group restriction– Group constitution
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Environments tab
• Where learning occurs• What is needed:
– Resources– Services
• Relate these to specific roles
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Activities Tab
• Activities performed in the course of a Learning Design– Objectives– Prerequisites– Metadata– Relate to an Environment (content
and service)• Activity Structure
– Groups/organisations of activities
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Method tab
• Where everything comes together• LDs consist of:
– Plays (usually just one) with sequential
– Acts (usually more than one)– Act transitions provide
synchronisation points– Role-parts organise roles and
activities.
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Complex isn’t it!
• An enormous job!• This is the first IMS LD Editor,• This is its first iteration,• Other UIs can be built on top of the
current ‘engine’,• All the IMS LD Elements with all
the valid relationships,• All it does is write an XML file.
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In practice
• LD Editor complemented by a database for storing LD fragments,
• Few people will ever create whole Designs from scratch,
• Templates: generic designs.
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Reload LD Player
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LD Player
• JBoss Application Server,• CopperCore LD Runtime Engine
(OUNL),• Java SQL Database,
• Web Player,• Delivered as an Eclipse appli
cation (widgets, tools browsers etc).
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Timetable
• Editor: Dec 2004• Incremental releases, adding
– IMS LD Level B: properties and conditions
– Level C: notifications– UI enhancements
• Player: Feb 2005– Updates to mirror editor functionality
• End of funding: July 2005
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Early Access to LD Editor
• NOT Feature Complete,• Understand our User Interface,• Think about how they will be used.
• Send an email to:[email protected]
• Ready later in September.
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Reload on the Road
Re-using learning objects, lesson plans and assessment materials.
• Joint with JORUM and TOIA• Alt-C SYMPOSIUM 157• Tuesday 14 Sept, 2-3pm• Newman Lecture Theatre C
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Telcert and Unfold - EU
• TELCERT– Building on RELOAD
• Internationalization, Validators, More Specs (LIP), New User Interfaces, Application Profiles
• UNFOLD– Bringing LD specs to a wider
community:• Developers > Implementers > End Users
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Contact
Colin [email protected]
Phil [email protected]
Paul [email protected]
http://www.reload.ac.uk/ex/glasgow020904.zip