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Leveraging Existing Content Assets in an E-Learning Framework

Explore how to utilize existing content assets such as books, journals, videos, and more in an e-learning framework. Learn how to break up content into smaller pieces, rebuild new content groupings, and create valuable custom curricula. Harness the power of your expert user base and gain insights into learner progress and content coverage.

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Leveraging Existing Content Assets in an E-Learning Framework

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  1. Leveraging Existing Content Assets in an E-Learning Framework Jake Zarnegar, CTO Silverchair jakez@silverchair.com Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  2. Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus, 1990 Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  3. What existing content do you have? • Books, journals, videos, guidelines, review questions, image galleries, etc. • The content is usually tied to its prior identity and use model • This content is often used to create passive reference applications: • Find • Read • Repeat Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  4. Hey, break it up! • At “node” level, these reference works cover hundreds or thousands of topical areas • When the data is coded in XML, it is easy to break them up in to smaller pieces: • Chapters • Sections • Tables, figures, equations • Videos • Assessment tests • This breaks you out of the “form” of the legacy content into a neutral form Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  5. Get yourself together, man! • Now, it’s time to rebuild new content groupings across references • Use semantic topics as the basis of the new connections (single- or multi-layered) • It really helps if you are working in a field that has an curriculum framework or requirement • Else, use standardized taxonomies Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  6. AccessSurgery: Core Curriculum Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  7. AccessSurgery: Core Procedures Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  8. A semantically-compiled topic Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  9. A semantically-compiled procedure Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  10. Wait, why am *I* doing this? Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • Harness your expert user base to create these valuable organizations for you • Needs incentive (control over what their residents read and completion reporting) Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  11. A “Custom Curriculum” Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  12. Build your own topics Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  13. Share! Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  14. What do residents see? Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  15. Resident assignments page Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  16. Resident activities page Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  17. What is there to gain? • A passive reference site now has a path towards “completion” • What was once optional (reference look-up) can now become required (module completion) • Learners now have a personal record of what they have completed • Program directors and librarians have greater insight into how the application is being used • Absorb the best user-generated content into the core of your site • Find out where you have gaps in your content coverage (or duplicates!) Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

  18. Thanks! Jake Zarnegar CTO Silverchair jakez@silverchair.com AccessSurgery: http://www.accesssurgery.com Medbiquitous Conference, April 18th 2007 Silverchair

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