Implications of COLIS for Implications of COLIS for Course Development: Course Development:

The need for secondary The need for secondary usage meta-datausage meta-data

Presenters: Robyn Philip and James Dalziel

16th ODLAA Conference, Canberra, September 2003

Sustaining Quality Learning Environments

• Rationalisation of resources reuse

• Cost of development

• Interoperability

• Standards

• Nature of the academic work in 21 century– Rate of change

– Contractual, fragmented, ‘time poor’ workforce

– Professional development needs - technology

– Need to search for and locate resources quickly

Current trends impacting on course developmentCurrent trends impacting on course development

What does this mean in practice?What does this mean in practice?

•Searching multiple databases and repositories

•Evaluation of resources

•Need for context specific and culturally appropriate resources

•Customisation and adaptation

•Copyright issues

•Integration with learning management system

University Partners Industry Participants AssociatesSponsors

COLIS DemonstratorCOLIS Demonstrator

Directories

Content Management

Library E-Services

E-Reserve

E-Journals

Learning Object

Management

Integration

Learning Management

Digital Rights Management

COLIS Integration Service ChunksCOLIS Integration Service Chunks

Interaction of IT Systems & RepositoriesInteraction of IT Systems & Repositories

Continuation of COLIS 2003 – IIS&R Project

1. Educational research

• Macquarie/OTEN, Murdoch, Monash, Tasmania, WestOne/Curtin, CETIS (UK)

2. Substitution by vendors

• Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, myintranet, Ebullient, intrallect, ExLibris, Concord, Blackboard, Harvest Road, WebCT, Endeavour

What does this mean for the ‘Arranger’?What does this mean for the ‘Arranger’?

• Search and retrieval of licensed learning objects

• Granularity - size & complexity

• Cycle of reuse - not ‘silos’

• Currier & Campbell (2002) – DNER&LO study

What will facilitate process?What will facilitate process?

• Systems that meet needs– Comparable to or better than current resource gathering

• Ease of reuse - relative advantage – Compatible, trialable, observable (Rogers 1983)

• Documentation of content and practice

• Change management – Program or operating milieu (Scott 1999)

– Mechanisms and rewards - strategic level

– Reflective practice - embedded

What will facilitate process - standards?What will facilitate process - standards?

• The value of current meta-data– User needs for secondary usage meta-data

• The impact of Learning Design– Need new kinds of meta-data

– Changes the role of content meta-data

URLSURLS

Interaction of IT Systems and Repositories (IIS&R, 2003)

http://www.melcoe.mq.edu.au/projects/iis&r.htm

COLIS background information (2002)

http://www.colis.mq.edu.au/

Merlot database (peer reviewed)

http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

EDNA (Education Network Australia)

Metadata standards

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/pid/333

Metadata Debate, AEShareNet & Macquarie University, March 2003

‘To meta-tag or not to meta-tag? A skeptical view’ (ppt)

Adjunct Professor James Dalziel

http://www.melcoe.mq.edu.au/res.htm

Implications of COLIS for Implications of COLIS for Course Development: Course Development:

The need for secondary The need for secondary usage meta-datausage meta-data

Presenters: Robyn Philip and James Dalziel

16th ODLAA Conference, Canberra, September 2003

Sustaining Quality Learning Environments