E-Learning Objects: The Value of SCORM and MPEG-7 Packaging for Digital Media Assets

1. E-Learning Objects: The Value of SCORM and MPEG-7 Packaging for Digital Media Assets TRACK 3: TEACHING AND LEARNING Thursday, November 6, 2003 11:45 am – 12:35 pm Room 303B Wednesday, October 22, 2003

2. Cesar Bandera, Ph.D. Director of Research Creneaux cbandera@creneaux.com Robert J. Beck, Ph.D. CIO of the College of Letters & Science University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee rbeck@cie.uwm.edu Barbara E. McMullen Director of the Center for E-Business Marist College barbara.mcmullen@marist.edu THE PANEL Wednesday, October 22, 2003

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4. AGENDA • Introductions • e-Learning Objects, SCORM, and MPEG-7 • e-Learning Objects and Pedagogy • Repository Issues – ADL Co-Lab (SCORM) • Authoring Interactivity for e-Learning Objects • SCORM 1.3 Supported Metadata Techniques for Interactivity • Questions and Panel Discussion Wednesday, October 22, 2003

5. DEFINITIONS OF E-LEARNING OBJECTS • E-Learning Objects • Digital and efficient • Self-standing, discrete, meets an instructional objective • Reusable and sharable Wednesday, October 22, 2003

6. THE VALUE OF METADATA • The vision of metadata is: • just the right content, to • just the right person, at • just the right time, on • just the right device, in • just the right context, and • just the right way. • (Chen, Chen) Wednesday, October 22, 2003

7. METADATA GENERATION Wednesday, October 22, 2003

8. DEVELOPING A METADATA STATEGY • How much …… • Can be automatically generated? • Can be automatically harvested from another repository or discovered from the learning object itself? • Must be human-created? • For use by …… • An end user • A metadata creator or manager • A computer application or program Wednesday, October 22, 2003

9. THE VALUE OF SCORM • SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) • A suite of technical standards that enable web-based learning systems to find, import, share, reuse, and export learning content in a standardized way • Built on AICC, IMS, IEEE, ARIADNE, Dublin Core primarily for vendors and toolmakers who build Learning Management Systems (LMS) and learning content authoring tools • Specifications include metadata, XML binding for metadata tags, content packaging (XML “manifest” that defines all the contents and their relationship to one another for the LMS) • . Wednesday, October 22, 2003

10. THE VALUE OF SCORM • SCORM goals include a run time environment (API and data model) that enables standardized: • Tracking of learners • Assessment of skill and competency mastery by all SCORM compliant LMS’s • Remediation and other types of complex directed learning experiences and behaviors • MUCH WORK IS STILL NEEDED…. Wednesday, October 22, 2003

11. THE VALUE OF MPEG-7 • Multimedia Description Interface – the metadata specification for multimedia • MPEG-7 is not just a better implementation of MPEG-1, 2, or 4 (MPEG-3 is no longer used, MPEG-5 and 6 have never been used, but there is an MPEG-21 (DRM)) • Semantic interoperability Wednesday, October 22, 2003

12. METADATA CROSSWALKING, ABSTRACTIONS AND WEB SERVICES • Addressing different communities: • Digital libraries and repositories (NSDL uses Dublin Core metadata) • Educational technologies and LMS’s (WebCt and CourseInfo are SCORM compliant) • Portals (web syndication systems) Wednesday, October 22, 2003

13. MARIST COLLEGE • Marist / IBM Joint Studies • 1995 MERIT learning object repository • 2003 Project Greystone – eEducation Environment (K-12 and IDCP) Wednesday, October 22, 2003

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