mike collett schemeta [email protected] interoperability in e-learning
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Mike Collett
Schemeta
Interoperability in E-learning
Interoperability in E-learning
Vocabulary Management
Ambition: to collate, store and reference all major vocabularies and taxonomies
Tools– Vocabulary Studio -
editor– Vocabulary Bank -
repository
Key Requirements
To identify concepts and related termsTo map between terms in different vocabularies via a spineTag once, classify many timesTo support portals and tagging toolsTo support multiple curricula structures
A spine of concepts
The basic items identified in the spine are concepts. They can represent ideas, things,
learning objectives - or anything at all.
Some basics
Each concept has a name, an identifier and some administrative information. It should also
have a definition.
Terms
Terms are words or phrases associated with a concept. There may be one or many.
Metadata
With each term will be some information. Such as who submitted it, when, a local identifier,
links to deprecated terms.
A bit of the spine
Each part of the spine of concepts can be associated with a lot of information. There are
expected to be at least 30,000 parts.
Views
Most people will only see a vocabulary published in a Bank. This may have a structure, like a thesaurus. Nodes or facets are used just
to make the structure.
A Framework
There may be additional information associated with a structure, such as help text or associated
curriculum outcomes.
A Topic Map
The structure may have several kinds of relationships (associations) between parts.
Curriculum Map
The additional information in a curriculum map could support navigation in tools or portals.
Use cases
Vocabulary mapping
learning object
meta data+
Content provision
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Resource discovery
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Rights management
Identified by industry stakeholders as number 1 issue for effective development of a disaggregated system.
Strategy will inform both:– industry– users
Ambitions are to inform solutions through:– Metadata– Persistent identification– Best practice and guidance
Delivering the vision
Repositories
TaggingTool
CurriculumOnline
ContentContentInteroperabilityInteroperability
Quality &Quality &ExcellenceExcellence
Stakeholders& Partners
Standards& Guidelines
Vocabularies
Learners
How is progress made
Leadership and change management from UK Government and its agenciesOpen interoperability standards - local and international, plus conformance, guidelines and adviceEngagement with a wide range of stakeholders - government organisations, standards bodies, educators and suppliers
All these have helped increase …
… interoperability in e-learning
technical
semantic
political
… cash
Some referencesADL - SCORM http://www.adlnet.org
Becta http://www.becta.org.uk
British Standards Institution (BSI) http://www.bsi-global.com
Cabinet Office e-Government Unit http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk
CEN/ISSS WS-LT http://www.cenorm.be/isss/workshop/lt
CELEBRATE http://celebrate.eun.org
CETIS http://www.cetis.ac.uk
Common Information Environment http://www.common-info.org.uk
Curriculum Online http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk
DfFES http://www.dfes.gov.uk/
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative http://www.dublincore.org
E-GIF http://www.govtalk.gov.uk
E-learning Strategy http://www.dfes.gov.uk/elearningstrategy/
European Schoolnet http://www.eun.org
IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee http://ltsc.ieee.org
IMS Global Learning Consortium http://www.imsglobal.org
ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 http://jtc1sc36.org
Learndirect http://www.learndirect.co.uk
LIFE: eLearning Interoperability Framework for Europe http://life.eun.org/sites/life
OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org
Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) http://www.sifinfo.net
TelCert http://www.opengroup.org/telcert/
