Getting a Handle on Learning Objects: An Object Repository and the 

Tutorial Remix Project

Scott RiceDigital Initiatives and Emerging Technologies Librarian

E-Learning Challenges

• Proliferation of e-learning objects• Aging tutorial• Lack of standards• Lack of consistency• Ownership• Maintenance• Lack of awareness• Not reusable• Location problems• Tracking use

NC LITe excerpts

How do you manage tutorials over time?• What's a good way to manage changes?

o Database w/ all tutorials that reminds people to go and check their content

• maintenance is more of an organizational issue more than a tech issues o deciding about the level of quality you want to maintaino negative ramifications if you have lower quality/less

frequently updated o moving from a model where few people can do tutorials to

where most people can  • Issues of currency, etc. for tutorials

o When do we update, when do we revamp?

  

NC-LITe excerpts Workflows• having people responsible for content look regularly at the

content of the tutorials  Reusable pieces of content• What kind of mechanisms could we have for managing

things like this?• How can we impose a structure of using modular content so

that everything is consistent? • Could we have a structure where you can pull together difft

tutorial chunks to make unique tutorials - i.e. making a playlist for the streaming media

• When you break something down into modules - how do you put the pieces back together?

Solutions?

E-Learning Resource Center

Tutorial Remix Project

E-Learning Resource Centerhttp://www.library.appstate.edu/elearn/center

E-Learning Object Repository

Searchable

Database-driven

Provides embedding code or link to object

Tagging

Similar to Wake Forest's Toolbox

E-Learning Resource Center

E-Learning Resource Center

Provides a solution to:• proliferation  - everything is in one spot• ownership - we know who has created it• maintenance - a maintenance schedule can be created and

followed• awareness - prominent links and provides consistent place

to view content• reusability - can be used in many different locations/ways• location - we know where the e-learning objects are • tracking - both within Captivate file and within repository

Tutorial Remix Project

E-LearningResourceCenter

Question Pool

CurrentTutorial

TRP

Tutorial Remix Projecthttp://www.library.appstate.edu/elearn/center/tutorial_remix2.html

Tutorial Remix Project

• reusability - mix and match content in many different ways for many different purposes

• standards - parts must all be compliant and of a certain quality for inclusion

• consistency - parts must match for inclusion• aging tutorial - reimagined and reinvented over and over• assessment/tracking

E-Learn Center / Tutorial Remix

Adobe Captivate 5 Embedded Javascript for control Google Analytics Captivate Controller MooTools

Obstacles

• Getting buy-in/assistance • Standards/normalization

 • Training/awareness/comprehension

 • Publicizing/expanding usage 

 • Captivate(?) inconsistencies

• Quiz pools

Next steps

• Move from Mootools to Jquery • Move from Zope to Drupal/PHP/MySQL

 • Fix quiz pools

 • Make YouTube equivalent of owned tutorials for mobile site

 • More content/more types of content in repository

QUESTIONS?