e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan

1. e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan Boon Low, NA3 User Training and InductionUniversity of Edinburgh

2. Training requirements • Generally best to take training to the audience - ubiquitous • Persistency of courses - anytime • Account for different background & skills • Rapid response to rising demands • Experts under heavy demand • Core training team supporting events all over Europe and need to train more people within the current constraints e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

3. e-Learning • Enhance accessibility to courses - 24/7 availability • Provide alternative training approaches for: • Self-paced, peer-to-peer learning • Facilitate prerequisites requirements for courses • Liberate trainers to focus on more advanced topics: • Teach gLite, instead of basics • Provide collaborative environments for: • Experimenting and sharing ideas • Localisation • Revising and improving training materials e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

4. Federated Search Learning Flow Tracking Marking Activity Authoring Assessment Resource List Course Management Curriculum Personal Developm’t Quality Assurance Reporting Chat Authentication Annotation / Review Content Management Archiving AV Conferencing Learner Management Course Validation Calendaring Sequencing Identifier Email Filing Alert / Notification Content Adaptation Resolver Forum Mapping Authorisation Format Conversion Messaging Metadata Management Packaging Whiteboard Tracking Service Registry User Management Scheduling Search / Browse Personalisation Harvesting e-Learning services Prioritise …. Sources: • e-Learning Service-Oriented Framework (ELF) http://www.elframework.org • Virtual Environment Services http://www.grids.ac.uk/ETF/public/WebServices/classes.html …. e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

5. Pilot project Aims to deliver two tangible outcomes by end of EGEE1: • e-Learning resources • July 2005 first release • Regular evaluation with NA3 trainers and learners • Digital Library supporting NA3 objectives • August 2005, core services trial • October 2005 EGEE 4th Conference, personalisation services trial e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

6. e-Learning resources • Include all NA3 training materials • Currently over 200 presentations, ~ 400 files • Pilot resources for gLite and basic courses (inc. XML, Web Services, WSDL): • SMIL audio-visual presentations and GILDA “video tutorials” • Software code samples • Hands on tutorials and exercises • A catalogue of reference objects including websites, technical reports, books, journal, articles • All resources will be catalogued using metadata standards: • Dublin Core & IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

7. Digital library • A pragmatic approach that builds on current NA3 initiatives • Can’t implement and make proper use of all feasible e-learning services • Part of the T-Infrastructure • Support self-paced learning • Web user interface and service-oriented • NA3 partners build custom applications for localised, federated digital library context. • Extensible for additional e-learning services (longer term) • Based on Fedora open source repository e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

8. AV Conferencing Calendaring Reporting Personal Developm’t Learning Flow Tracking Chat Marking Activity Authoring Learner Management Assessment Resource List Course Management Curriculum Quality Assurance Course Validation Annotation / Review Archiving Sequencing User Management Identifier Format Conversion Scheduling Filing Alert / Notification Content Adaptation Forum Mapping Email Personalisation Harvesting Packaging Messaging Whiteboard Tracking Service Registry Search / Browse Digital library core services …. Authentication Authorisation Content Management Federated Search Metadata Management Resolver • Content management with authentication/authorisation • deposit/update/download materials, versioning, metadata management • Search / browse - Search & Retrieve Web Services (SRW) protocol • Persistent linking mechanism (resolver) - OpenURL …. e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

9. AV Conferencing Activity Authoring Curriculum Course Management Assessment Learner Management Marking Tracking Learning Flow Course Validation Personal Developm’t Quality Assurance Calendaring Reporting Mapping Scheduling Sequencing Service Registry Tracking Whiteboard Harvesting Messaging Forum User Management Chat Content Adaptation Alert / Notification Filing Email Format Conversion Identifier Archiving Search / Browse Digital library - personalisation …. Resource List Annotation / Review Authentication Authorisation Content Management Federated Search Metadata Management Packaging Personalisation Resolver • Resources annotation / review services • Personal/local resources list services • Create, read, update, delete personal resource (reading) lists and customised courses - IMS Resource List Web Services/Data Spec. • Export resources to other e-learning environment • Zipped packages using IMS Content Packaging Spec. …. e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference

10. Thank you • Further Information: • http://wiki.nesc.ac.uk/read/egee-elearning/ • Send us your comments and suggestions • http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/suggreq/index.html • Email • boon.low@ed.ac.uk e-Learning: Requirements, Service Options and Plan EGEE 3rd Conference