Learning Objects Repository
@ VCILT
http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu/lor
Abounaidane Adil
Tournaud Julien
Yannic Stephane
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Learning Objects Repository
1. Learning Objects
1. Pedagogical point of view
2. Professional point of view
2. Learning Objects Repository
1. Metadata & Standards
2. What’s for?
3. Repository
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Why learning objects?(1)
Pedagogical point of view
• Traditional methods:
– Linear, fixed-path presentations
– Difficulty in changing or adapting content…
These methods are inadequate for learning
in today’s business environment.
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Why learning objects? (2)
Pedagogical point of view
• Learner’s perspective:
– Demand for customisation
to provide just-in-time and
just-enough content
– Need for performance
support
– Need for granular levels of
training individualized to
learner needs, interests, and
learning style.
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• Author’s perspective:
– Ease of collaboration,
sharing and reusing content
assets over the web
– Need for rapid creation of
content
– Ease assemble/update
content
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Professional point of view (1)
Why develop content as learning objects?
• To gain an added-value
– Costs
– Development time
– Learning effectiveness
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Professional point of view (2)
Why develop content as learning objects?
• Flexibility
• Ease of updates,
searches and content
management
• Customisation
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• Interoperability
• Facilitation of
competency-based
learning
• Increase value of
content
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Anatomy of a Learning Object
•Centred around learning
objective
•Content/information
supports the objective and
promotes the achievement of
the learning outcome
•Practice/feedback ensures
mastery
© Harvi Singh
[email protected]
http://www.centra.com/
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Standards
Standards are necessary for:
– interworking,
– portability,
– reusability.
A standard helps ensure cooperation and reuse.
But, “the nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from.”
Andrew Tanenbaum, in his Computer Networks book
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Metadata
Metadata is data about data.
–What? - title and description
–When? - when it was created and the update
cycle, if any.
–Who? – authors and submitter
–Where? – where to find the resource
–How? – how to obtain more information about
the resource and how to use it in a specific context
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Metadata standards
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Tertiary Education Commission
Match the student’s programmes of study at
the tertiary level to the socio-economic
developmental needs
– List of Indicative Priority Fields of Study (IPFS)
• Demand for high-level manpower by existing
employers
• Providing information to the tertiary education
institutions
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Tertiary Education Commission
• Agriculture and AgroIndustry
• Arts and Languages
• Engineering
• Environment
• Financial Services
• Information and
Communication
Technology
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Law
Management
Medicine and Dentistry
Sciences and Applied
Sciences
• Social Sciences and
Humanities
• Textile and Clothing
• Tourism
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WHAT’s
a LOR
Endemic Plants
History / /Coral Reefs /
Culture / Biodiversity
Heritage
for ?
Non Situated
Knowledge
[context free]
ICT related
Open
Courseware
Resituated
Knowledge
Situated Knowledge
[context dependant]
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LOR Project-Needs
• Interviews with future users from all the
faculties ( Agriculture, Engineering, Science, Law &
Management, Social Studies & Humanities)
– Use for articles and references on resources on
the web.
– Ease of loading data's.
– Easy and simple to use especially for non
specialist in IT.
– Efficient search engine
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LOR Project-Context Analyse
• Analyses of resources on the web:
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User’s view
registered
user
WWW
Virtual U
LO Repository
Agriculture Course 12
I) Animal Genetics
II) Animal Production
Farm Operations
Biology of Production
Example 1
Example 2
Virtual U
III) Animal Reproduction
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LO Interface
open access/
search /
combine /
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local
content
DB
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Architecture
Virtual U
LO Repository
Academic Modules
=
Combination of RLOs
+
Academic
Management Tools
+
Metadata
(ontology)
Local Content DB
Store for locally
developped content
or mirrors sites
Local or
Web Ref
Communication Tools
WWW
+
Security
Filters
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Reusable Learning Objects
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LOR Resources
RLO
Private Access
– Assignments, exercises
– Part of a course or modules
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Free Access
– Resources on the web
– Searchers articles from
UoM
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Learning Object Metadata
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Title
Reference
Description
Keywords
Type
Free access or not
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• Date of submission
• Language
• Information about
– Author(s)
– Submitter
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LOR Database
Learning
Object
Author
Submitter
Comment
Pedagogy
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LOR Database
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Learning Objects Repository
•Share information
•Easy access to information
•Information construction
•Information exchange
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Learning Objects Repository
•Thank you for your attention.
•Any questions?
•Let’s go for a demonstration?
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