Transcript Learning Object Repository

SWITCHcollection
The Swiss e-Learning Content Exchange Platform
TNC 2009, Málaga
Rolf Brugger
SWITCHcollection: Learning Object Repository
community repository
to
share
various kinds of
digital learning content
of
swiss universities
© 2009 SWITCH
Goals and Motivation
• Re-use e-learning content
• Open access to e-learning contents
• Enhance collaboration (intra- and inter-institutional)
• Make teaching activities visible to peers and to the public
• Make teaching activities citable and referenceable
• Increase quality of education
• Attract students (Marketing)
• Long-term archiving and distribution of content with stable
URL (content lifecyle)
• Single point of entry for all kinds of e-learning contents independently from distribution platform
© 2009 SWITCH
General decisions
• restrictions, requirements
– currently only learning objects
– currently only Switzerland covered
– currently limited to higher education
• no restrictions or constraints
– granularity: course, module, lesson, image, video clip, pdf-doc, ...
– license: creative commons, commercial, ...
– access rights: public (free), restricted (group, private)
– no formal quality criteria or reviewing (content managed by teachers)
• national system entirely based on open source software
– Fedora, Lucene
– OAI-PMH: PKP Open Archives Harvester,
Harrow (developed by SWITCH) http://harrow.sourceforge.net
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Architecture: Federation
EPFL
Arch / Civil Eng.
Chem / Math / Phys
Engineering
Inform. / Communic.
Life Science
Humanities
Tech. Management
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UniZH
Math-Nat
Philosoph.
Vet'medizin
Medizin
Wirtschaftsw.
Rechtswiss.
Theologie
FHO
Tech / IT / Bau
St. Gallen
Gesundheitsw.
Rappersw.
Planung / Wirtsch. Buchs
Soziale Arbeit
Chur
Federation, Search Index, APIs
Embedded
Search and
Download
Embedded
Search and
Download
Community
Search and
Download
...
REST
Federation
Search Index
Harvester
OAI-PMH
REST
...
Upload Form
Applications
Institutional
Repository
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Institutional
Repository
Community
Repository
Folder Concept
UZH
Rechtswiss.
Medizin
Philosoph.
Gender
Studies
Grundlagen
Themen
UniBE
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Metadata Model - Subset of Dublin Core
• Mandatory
• Optional
– title
– author
– usage license (cc, +)
– access and edit rights
– discipline (contr. vocabulary)
• Automatic
– unique id
– creation date
– modification date
– modification history
– ...
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– contributor(s)
– publisher
– rights holder
– table of contents
– abstract
– keywords
– description
– language
– publication date
– education level
– instructional method
– bibliographic citation
– extent (duration)
– source id
http://www.switch.ch/els/collection/spec/
Folders: Multiple Associations
UZH
Rechtswiss.
Medizin
Philosoph.
Gender
Studies
UniBE
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Embedding Search Functions in Web Sites
www.yoursite.org
www.yoursite.org
Search in
Subset
Search
Browse
Quick Time™ and a
TIFF (Unc ompres sed) decompres sor
are needed t o s ee t his pict ure.
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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www.yourapp.org
Customizable Interface
• Simple / advanced
• Adapted to content type
• Adapted to corporate identity
• To enforce workflows
• Web-Services interface for
custom front ends
Uni B: CMS
adapter
Uni A
Videoportal
LMS
adapter
Image Library
Web Services
API
Repository Engine
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First Experiences and Challenges
• What works
– sharing in well defined
workgroups
– contributions related to projects
– automated ingest from attached
applications / repositories
• Open question
– contributions from individuals?
• Courses contain copyrighted
material
• Learning contents - personal
property of teachers
• Missing business models
• Missing incentives: additional
work without compensation
• no culture established as with
– Open Source Software
– YouTube, Wikipedia, ...
– Research
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Comparison: Research and Education
Research
Education
Funding
Employer / School
Employer / School
Publication
as much as possible,
support from editions
usually not
Quality
assurance
Peer-Review
internal evaluation
Re-usage
necessary, citation rules,
contents can be changed,
merged, copied
Text books,
reluctantly or
"secretly" with Google
Controlling
Number of publications,
Citation Index, Impact Factor
internal evaluation,
(StudiVZ, myProf)
Guiding
principle
Research results have to
circulate
?
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Danke
[email protected]
http://collection.switch.ch
http://switch.ch/els