8th Sakai Conference

4-7 December 2007Newport Beach

Experience of a Plan for a Repository Experience of a Plan for a Repository of Reusable Digital Learning Objectsof Reusable Digital Learning Objects

Aristóteles Cañero

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

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Valencia, a Valencia, a place to visitplace to visit

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Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaUniversidad Politécnica de Valencia

• Public academic institution since 1971– 4 campuses– 15 colleges– 40 research centers– 40 official degrees– 20 post graduate studies– 40.000 students– 2.600 teachers– 1.400 staff

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Valencia CampusValencia Campus

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Sakai in the UPVSakai in the UPV

• Full production system in 2006-2007

– 4.000 sites per year

– 40.000 active students

• One of the objectives of the Strategic Plan of the UPV: Intensify the use of Information Technologies

• Action lines– Training– Incentives for production

““Network teaching” planNetwork teaching” plan

Docencia en red

Content providingtools

Subject management – Sakai framework

““Network teaching”: SakaiNetwork teaching”: Sakai

Evaluation tools

Communication tools

Experimentation tools

Management Tools

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• Sakai is the e-learning support platform in the UPV

• Polimedia is a streaming media technology developed by the UPV to produce learning multimedia contents, in a special way that can combine several technologies simultaneously in a web browser– Show presentations

– Use an electronic whiteboard

– Use computer applications

Learning objects: PolimediaLearning objects: Polimedia

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Learning objects: Virtual labsLearning objects: Virtual labs• Virtual labs is a new set of tools that allow instructors to

create learning objects for experimentation in an easy and intuitive way through the use of scientific software applications such as Matlab, Mathematica or LabView.

• These learning objects are generated and accessible via the Internet

Content providingtools

Subject management – Sakai framework

Reusing objectsReusing objects

Evaluation tools

Communication tools

Experimentation tools

Management Tools

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• Some types of objects can be reused and shared between different subjects

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Reusing objectsReusing objects

• The goal of the project is to build a repository of reusable learning objects within our University based in some of the materials produced during this first year for the Sakai sites, and also with the creation of new multimedia and interactive contents.

Our concept of reusable objectOur concept of reusable object

• A digital, self-contained, reusable entity with a learning aim that contains the content, the metadata and the information which helps its identification, storage, and recovery.

• Learning modules can be created combining different learning objects within a certain context

Types of learning objectsTypes of learning objects• Depending on their pedagogical content:

– Conceptual– Procedural– Attitudinal

• Depending on the format– Text– Image / sound / video / multimedia– Interactive applications

Steps in the creation of a LOSteps in the creation of a LO• Determine the objectives: conceptual,

procedural or attitudinal

• Create the objects– Choose format (text, multimedia, interactive)– Create the introduction of the content– Create the content– Fill up the metadata form

• LO Comittee: Evaluate the quality of the learning object

Category Elements

General

Title

Languages

Description

Keywords

Authors

Learning use

Type of learning object

Interactivity level

Semantic density

Receiver

Context

Dificulty

Estimated time

Description of the use

Language of the receiver

Example of a Metadata FormExample of a Metadata Form

From LO to Learning ModulesFrom LO to Learning Modules

+ Pedagogical purpose

Digital object

Learning object

+ Coupling objects

Learning module

• Any object that can be used, reused or referenced within a learning process

• Introductory guide, practical activity, evaluation of the module and summary

Learning modulesLearning modules• Learning session created by the

contextualization of one or several learning objects within a didactic environment with the addition of coupling objects

• The approximate working time of the student in a learning module is one hour, including all the activities proposed in the module

Process in creating learning modulesProcess in creating learning modules

• Select the competences to develop in the student• Select the kind of objects to work in: conceptual,

procedural or attitudinal• Define the structure of the module• Search for already created learning objects which can

fit in our structure• Create non-existing learning objects• Configure the module: create coupling objects• Test the module• Evaluate the module

Quality criteriaQuality criteria• Our goal is to create a high quality learning

object repository:– Training as a requisite– Assistance and support to the teacher through all

the creation process– Validation of objects by a LO Committee

Creation of a repositoryCreation of a repository• All the objects have to be stored in a common

database, catalogued by the Library and with three types of access rights:– Any student in the same Knowledge Area (minimun

requirement)– Any student from the UPV– Free access

• The kind of license is not determined by the plan. Each teacher can decide which one to use

DspaceDspace• Dspace has been chosen as the tool to

create the learning object repository

• It can store, classify, search and distribute all kinds of digital contents

• It’s an open source project: www.dspace.org

• At this moment we are starting the process of creation of the repository

Objectives of the planObjectives of the plan• The main goal of the plan is to start the creation of the

repository• The specific actions are:

– Extensive training on learning objects theory and practice– Economic incentive to teachers in the creation of the objects– Assistance through the creation process– Creation of the repository

• The types of objects preferred are– Polimedia– Virtual labs– Any other multimedia or interactive object

Numbers of the plan so farNumbers of the plan so far• The plan started in June 2007• 216 teachers from 37 different departments have

joined the plan.• All of then have gone through training on these

methodologies in 14 specific courses (from June to October)

• They have proposed the creation of around 2,000 learning objects that should be completed during this academic year

Training courses

Process of the planProcess of the plan

Content production

Repository publishing

Resources reservation

Metadata creation

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Evaluation

Catalog

Access rights

Resolution of the plan

Economic Incentives

VTICVCE

VTICVCE

ICEASIC

ASICICE

GOA

BIB BIB

Results of the first monthsResults of the first months

Some examplesSome examplesDuracion Autor Titulo

5:22 Francisca Ramón Fernández Búsqueda de Legislación en el BOE

5:02 Francisca Ramón Fernández Búsqueda de Legislación en el DOUE

6:35 Francisca Ramón Fernández Búsqueda de Legislación en el DOCV

4:57 Francisca Ramón Fernández Búsqueda de Proyectos de Ley en las Cortes Valencianas

10:21 Francisca Ramón Fernández Búsqueda de Legislación Nacional en la base de datos Westlaw

6:14 Francisca Ramón Fernández Búsqueda de Bibliografía en ISBN

9:01 Macarena Trujillo Guillen Método de Newton-Raphson

16:08 Maria de Carmen Gómez Collado Método de los trapecios

14:31 Asunción Santafé Moros Función Find

11:28 Gracia López Patiño Introducción Asignatura Materiales de Construcción

11:45 Jose Enrique Román Estructuras de Datos para Matrices Dispersas

9:43 Rafael Llobet Azpitarte Listas enlazadas en C: conceptos básicos

6:19 Rafael Llobet Azpitarte Listas enlazadas en C: recorrer una lista

4:12 Ana M. García-Bernabeu Presentación Banking and Financial English

4:27 Ana M. García-Bernabeu Presentación Project Finance

3:37 Ana M. García-Bernabeu Presentación Curso Básico de Finanzas Personales

4:48 Begoña Serrano Lanzarote Introducción a los sistemas estructurales

16:44 José Carlos de Bartolomé Cenzano Clase Introductoria de Derecho Constitucional y Estructuras Políticas

11:11 José Carlos de Bartolomé Cenzano Consideraciones sobre el constitucionalismo la constitución y el derecho constitucional

17:15 José Carlos de Bartolomé Cenzano El Surgimiento del Estado Constitucional

16:44 José Carlos de Bartolomé Cenzano Clase introductoria de D. Constitucional y estruc. Políticas

11:04 José María Osca Lluch Introducción a los cultivos herbáceos extensivos

9:03 Pascual Pérez Blasco Circuitos eléctricos lineales

8th Sakai Conference

4-7 December 2007Newport Beach

Gracias por su atenciónGracias por su atenciónThank you for your attention

Aristóteles Cañero: acanero@asic.upv.es