Learning Standards & Language Projects Bob Godwin-Jones Virginia Commonwealth University Calico 2009 "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model." - Andrew Tannenbaum, Computer Networks, 1981, p. 168
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Learning Standards& Language ProjectsLearning Standards& Language Projects
Bob Godwin-JonesVirginia Commonwealth University
Calico 2009
Bob Godwin-JonesVirginia Commonwealth University
Calico 2009
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model."
- Andrew Tannenbaum, Computer Networks, 1981, p. 168
Standards to...Find-Organize-Present
❖FIND
✓Find rather than re-invent the wheel; more informed search than Google scattergun
❖ ORGANIZE
✓Combine resources from multiple sources: own, commercial, open source
❖ PRESENT
✓Use in current LMS, but also in other contexts, now and in the future
Finding:OSID’s & Federated Searches
❖What is it? “One Search to Identify & Download”(actually “Open Service Interface Definition”)
❖ Allows simultaneous search of multiple resources: “federated search”, familiar from library services search
❖OSID a project of Open Knowledge Initiative at MIT
❖ Intermediary between client and database/repository, written in Java and XML
❖Choosing an authoring tool for content✓Support now for SCORM✓Likely or announced also for Common Cartridge
❖Free authoring tools
✓eXe Mac, Win & Linux; open source; CC export✓Xerte Flash based, Windows, free not open source✓RELOAD - supports SCORM 2004 sequencing
❖Commercial products✓Lectora high-end, Windows. multiple export✓ReadyGo many diff LMS's supported, Windows,✓CourseGenie from Wimba, works in Word✓SoftChalk LessonBuilder Mac/Win, activities
“Over the last few years, SCORM has become the de facto standard around the world to allow content developed in one learning system to be exported and used in all other systems.” LETSI Assumptions Document.
❖ IMS on SCORM:
“IMS’s experience with ADL is that ADL has ‘gamed the system’ toward its own objectives rather than those of industry. The result of this has been an industry concentration on a relatively small part of the interoperability challenge as it relates to learning systems – migration of self-paced learning content, that is, CBT, to the Internet, in a training context. While the vision of ADL and SCORM was/is admirable with respect to learning objects, it addresses a very limited and non-pervasive part of the educational spectrum...”