Benefits of standards and interoperabilityfrom a VLE/LMS perspective

Introduction

Educational content chain in our VLE

Known problems

Topics

Bart van Kimmenade

Educational Designer

Member of the R&D teamIBM Lotus Domino based products:

Virtual Learning Environment (TeleTOP elo)

ePortfolio

Assessment center

Introduction 1/3

TeleTOP e-learningOriginated at the University of TwenteFounded in 2003e-learning software and services± 30 employees

CustomersHigher educationSecondary education (market leader TeleTOP elo)

Vocational educationPublic and private sector

Introduction 2/3

Focus on learning, less on administrationConnect with other systems

Implemented non-content standards:IMS Enterprise Services

Accounts, course environments, memberships

Next step: return VLE-results

IMS Tools InteroperabilityIMS ePortfolio (summer of 2009)

Implemented tailor made connectionsWintoets import (quizzes) VOspiegel (online surveys)

Introduction 3/3

TeleTOP elo & the content chain 1/4

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Contribute

Use

Search:

TeleTOP elo & the content chain 2/4

EduRep

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• Search interface

• Build query using metadata

• PO/VO/BVE content search

profile (based on IEEE LOM)

• Search with SRU protocol

Use:

TeleTOP elo & the content chain 3/4

EduRep

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• Single Sing On

• Entree 2.0, Edupoort,

Eduroute

• SCORM RTE

Contribute:

TeleTOP elo & the content chain 4/4

EduRep

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collection

• Metadata

• IMS CPLCMS

Customer point of view:Metadata: complex, incompleteSearch results: quality, protected content, dead linksContribute: ownershipSCORM: no or minimal implementation by publishers

Development point of view:Single Sign On: Multiple initiatives for authenticationCommercial content: linked packages; cross domain scriptingSCORM: how to know that the RTE should be started?

Known problems