mega content transformation with open source educational content project elml (elesson markup...

Mega Content Transformation with Open Source Educational Content Project eLML (eLesson Markup Language)

Andreas Wittkeoncampus Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

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start in 2001 with zero students and increase up to 1800 until today

online distance education (80% online, 20% face2face)

over 2500 continuing education participants

over 18.000 course enrolments per year

over 250 courses with 70.000 HTML-pages, 15.000 illustrations und 13.000 multimedia elements

over 28.000 hours of workload

Mega Content Provider

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5 fulltime instructional designer & 3 mediadeveloper

Giuntilabs eXact Packager XML Template

developing time 4 years

cost for 1 creditpoint from 40.000 Euro down to 15.000 Euro

XHTML and PDF output

oncampus factory

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Oncampus Factory

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bad performance

XML library from Microsoft

PDF version was slow and complex

no flexibility

no transparency

license fee

Disadvantages from factory

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better performance

more and better output formats

open source

nearly the same structure (80%)

oncampus is not a software project

Why eLML

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Factory Content

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eLML Content

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PDF Version

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academic content

big

complex

expensive

High End Content

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High End Content

Three Tiers Content Pyramide by Clive Shepherd

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Is e-learning content high end content?

Do the customer (learner) want PDF?

Question

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Danke

Lübeck University of Applied SciencesDipl.-Ing. Andreas Wittke

Phone: +49 (0) 451-300-5436

E-Mail: wittke@fh-luebeck.deInternet:www.oncampus.deBlog: www.onlinebynature.de