Working with Learning Design
developing tools to allow us to engage with the LD spec.
Colin Milligan
RELOAD
funded by
Why Reload could do LD
• Reload was a ‘Content Package and
Metadata Editor’ …
• … an XML Editor with a user interface
for working with these specs.
• New spec: new UI: efficient
development
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Aims of Reload LD
• The first and reference implementation
of an editor,
• Adheres rigidly to the LD specification,
• Use a proven architecture,
• Allow us to ask questions of the LD
spec.
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The Learning Design Space
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Reload
Edubox (from EML)
CopperAuthor
Alfanet
• Ask-LDT (Greece)
• LAMS (Australia)
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Learning Design
• EML (from OUNL) Abstract Description,
• Interactions & Information,
• Play as metaphor.
• People in specific groups and roles engage
in activities using an environment with
appropriate resources and services.
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Learning Design Workflow
(Rob Koper)
• Specify course: learning objectives, prerequisites etc.,
• Specify roles,
• Specify activities (learning and support),
• Specify resources and environments,
• Make dummy files,
• Join files and roles together by
describing their relationship in XML.
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Write some XML …
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!-- This is a Reload version 2.0 Learning Design
document --> <!-- Spawned from the Reload Learning Design Generator http://www.reload.ac.uk -->
<manifest xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1"
xmlns:imsmd="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:imsld="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsld_v1p0" identifier="MANIFEST-1651B744B5EC-5F81-D3F4-E4CE0E7A9050"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imscp_v1p1 imscp_v1p1.xsd
http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_v1p2 imsmd_v1p2p2.xsd
http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsld_v1p0 IMS_LD_Level_A.xsd">
<organizations>
<imsld:learning-design identifier="LD-EB97B65C-2AA4-5627-90D6-94F01039BB53" level="A"
uri="http://www.reload.ac.uk/tickettospace" version="0.1">
<imsld:title>Ticket to Space</imsld:title>
<imsld:learning-objectives>
<imsld:title>Learning Outcomes</imsld:title>
<imsld:item identifierref="RES-F3CAF606-F080-0982-752C-98684D3B1DFB" />
</imsld:learning-objectives>
<imsld:prerequisites>
<imsld:title>Course Pre-requisites</imsld:title>
<imsld:item identifierref="RES-EF55E329-B322-A775-7D5B-9DC9CDD4733D" />
</imsld:prerequisites>
<imsld:components>
<imsld:roles identifier="LD-77187A55-7D6B-A2B9-CEB5-76EF03228C52">
<imsld:learner identifier="LD-9E7EC784-CC43-BB99-3ADE-577CE7489932">
<imsld:title>Student</imsld:title>
</imsld:learner>
… Or maybe not
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Reload LD Editor
• No more writing XML
• Instead, a form filling exercise,
• A complex one, because LD is complex,
• Demo:
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The Player
• Like the SCORM
Player,
• No command Line
Interface,
• Next version will
have tabs for each
role.
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Problems with Reload
• (necessarily) complex UI,
• No internal preview of resources,
• No internal editing.
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Straker: Reload / Eclipse
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Eclipse = speedy: no more Swing clunk.
Simpler user interface
Embedded browser to view content
Project manager view to organise your
Learning Designs
Resource manager view to organise your
favourite files and web links
View and Edit files in the Editor
Wizards to import and export as IMS UoLs
Streamlined Eclipse Help system
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General Screenshot
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Editing a File
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Timetable
• Editor: Dec 2004 Player: Mar 2005
• Reload-Eclipse: April 2005
– Level A,
– Integration with Player,
– Level B and Level C to follow.
• End of funding: July 2005
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Where we are?
• Proof of Concept
• The delivery systems are immature,
• These are not tools for teachers,
• We can now at least ask questions of
the Learning Design specification and
improve it or extend it.
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Contact
Colin Milligan
[email protected]
http://www.reload.ac.uk/pres/newcastle040305.zip
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