Tokyo, February 14-16, 2007

From Learning ObjectTo Learning Services

LORNET Contribution to GLOBE

Dr Gilbert PaquetteLORNET Director

Télé-université

gpaquett@teluq.uquebec.ca

Pan-canadian Applied Research Network6 Universities, 4 Research Chairs, 18 partners5 years, 7.5 M $, 120 investigatorsBackround

1998-2002 POND, CAREO, CLOE, SNet,CanLOM,

Explor@ RM, Splash, Aloha,…2002-2004 eduSource: Federated Search

ECL, ERS2004-2009 LORNET Suite of Tools

PALOMA + ECL-2GLOBE partnership

LORNET Presentation

LORNET LeadersTélé-université in Montreal and LICEF-CIRTA is host of the

network - Dr. Gilbert Paquette, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Engineering of Telelearning Systems

 Simon Fraser University, Dr. Marek Hatala and Dr Griff Richards

Director of Laboratory for Ontological Research  University of Saskatchewan – Dr. Jim Greer and Dr. Gordon McCalla,

Co-directors of the ARIES Laboratory

University of Waterloo - Dr. Mohamed Kamel, Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Intelligent Systems and Director of the PAMI laboratory,

 University of Ottawa - Dr. Nicolas D. Georganas and Dr Abed El Saddik

Canada Research Chair in Information Technology and Director of the Discover laboratory,

École Polytechnique de Montréal - Dr. Samuel Pierre, NSERC/Ericsson Industrial Chair in Next Generations Mobile Networking Systems and Director of the LARIM laboratory,

LORNET Partners

LORNET Activities

Webcasts seminars from different locations

Past seminars are accessible for partnersin Video streaming

Theme workshops in each of the research centers, labs or Research Chairs.

1st International conference

I2LOR-04 Montreal November 2004

2nd International Conference

I2LOR-05 Vancouver, November 2005

3nd International Conference I2LOR-06 Montreal, November 2006

LORNET Web Site www.lornet.org

InfoLORNETExtraLORNET

LORNET in GLOBE

To attain a critical mass of high quality content both in French and EnglishTo help federate the numerous LO repositories in Canada that are dispersedTo make the results of the eduSource and LORNET projects more usefulTo share technology and educational advances with others to foster innovation in the use of learning objects

Our Priorities

A. Tool set for LOR management

B. Federating Canadian Repositories with GLOBE

C. Quality Assurance Methodology

A- Tool Set: Paloma Web

A- Tool Set : PALOMA Search

A- Tool Set: PALOMA Open Source Integration

LOM Metatagger (LOMPAD)Multiple Repository managerRights managerSearch engines:

federated, boolean, classification browsing

Communication APILCMS Integration:

Explor@, Concept@, Moodle, D2L,…TELOS (LORNET’s assembly system)

B- Federating Canadian Repositories with GLOBE

UQTRARIADNE

POND

LORNET Registry

SQI Registry

SQI Compliant repositories PALOMA Compliant repositories

PALOMA API

FSE Client/ PALOMA Client

FSE Engine

Edna

SFU USask

Registry to Registry 2

3

1

4

UQAM

UQAC

B- Federating New Repositories with GLOBE

23 900 ressources being integrated in Quebec

A network of 10 Quebec universities: 6000 Université de Moncton (NB) : 2000 College level repository Euréka : 5 000Ministry of Education and GRICS : 10 000Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) : 900

Re-integrate repositories from eduSource network and other sourcesDiscussion started with CMEC: Council of Ministers of Education of Canada

C- Quality Assurance MethodologyA 2 year project with Globe Partners

C- Quality Assurance

Design/Production

Deposit andmetadata

referencing

Adaptationand Reuse

Life-cycle of a LOR

Before inclusion

During inclusion

After inclusion

Quality of the object

Quality of Metadata

Quality of the process

C- Before Inclusion: Identify Quality Criteria,

Instructional Design Quality

Content Quality

Goal Alignment

Feedback and Adaptability

Motivation

Visual Design

Usability

Accessibility

Reusability

Standard conformance

C- After Inclusion

Retrieval quality, maintenance planned at inclusion

Peer reviews, evaluations from actual users/reusers.

Advertise innovative and high quality resources

Provide recommendations to authors for improvements

Propose search options: metadata, classification, free text etc.

Tokyo, February 14-16, 2007

LORNET ContributionTo GLOBE

www.lornet.org

www.licef.teluq.uquebec.ca/gp