All this Content and No Place to Put It…

Selecting a Learning Object Repository

Timothy Tirrell, VCCS Diane Chubb, Georgia State University

• A System of Colleges (23) and campuses (39)– College operational autonomy encouraged– Each college individually named– One governing board and CEO for system

• Scope -– System Office, 23 Colleges, 40 Campuses– Six new campuses in last eight years– 10,000 Faculty and staff– 235,000 credit students– 100,000+ non credit students– 89,500 FTE’s credit students (unduplicated)

• Scale - The full range– Smallest college 1,500 students (600 FTE)– Largest college 70,000 students (20,000 FTE)– Smallest campus 800 students (375 FTE)– Largest campus 20,000 students (10,000 FTE)

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LOR Functionality Architecture

http://www.imsglobal.org/digitalrepositories/driv1p0/imsdri_infov1p0.html

Scope of Work

• Compare the features of six Digital learning object repository software products

• Engaged three “guest experts” to address selected issues in using shareable content objects

• Share advances made by project participants in using learning objects

Project participants,

The candidates…

• Harvest Road • Learn eXact (Packager & Lobster) • Concord's Masterfile Course Asset Manager • Intrallect’s Intralibrary • The Edusource ‘Repository in a Box’ • Basic E-Learning Tool Set (BELTS) • Capdm MyILE (http://www.capdm.com/myile.html)• Dspace (http://www.dspace.org/) • Ex Libris Digitool • The Learning Edge

(http://www.thelearningedge.com.au)

Features

• Discovery Tools

• Aggregation Tools

• Community & Evaluation

• Meta-tagging

• Content management

More features

• Digital Rights Management &

Fulfillment

• Presentation and Consortia Issues

• Integration & Interoperability

• Technical Considerations

• Pricing/Licensing/Other

Open Source considerations

• How many adopters• How many active developers in

community• How stable as current release• What is track record for bug

fixes• Management structure to

support continued development• Ample financial support• Issues with underlying

technology

Package information

• Harvest Road (http://www.harvestroad.com/)

• Learn eXact (Packager & Lobster) (http://www.learnexact.com/)

• Concord's Masterfile Course Asset Manager (http://www.concord-usa.com/)

• Intrallect’s Intralibrary (http://www.intrallect.com/products/index.htm)

• The”Edusource ‘Repository in a Box’

(http://www.edusource.ca/english/home_eng.html)

• Basic E-Learning Tool Set (BELTS) (http://belts.sourceforge.net/)

• Capdm MyILE (http://www.capdm.com/myile.html)

• Dspace (http://www.dspace.org/)

• Ex Libris Digitool (http://www.exlibris-usa.com/digitool.htm)

• The Learning Edge (http://www.thelearningedge.com.au)

Final Report

http://conference.wcet.info/2004/

VCCS Priorities

• Goal of LOR– Content– Library

• CMS compatibility• Scalability• Student authoring• Timeline – within one year• Who can access

More priorities

• Video management– Original content– Acquired content

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