eTernity – Towards the Next Generation of Textbooks

Jan M. Pawlowski, Fabrizio Cardinali, Tore Hoel

16.01.2013

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Thanks to…Fabrizio Cardinali CEO eXact learning solutions North America & APACEmail: f.cardinali@exactls.com Twitter: @CardinaliF Web site: www.exact-learning.com

Chair of Technical Committee from 2000 to 2002Board of Directors from 2009 to 2011Founding member of IMS Europe

SCORM 1.2 & SCORM 2004 Cowriter

Open Knowledge Initiative – MIT Global Strategy Advisor

Chair from 2010 to date, 3rd re-election

Active Engagement in

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Jyväskylä, Finland

Source: [http://www.jyu.fi/, http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/]

Global Information Systemsat the University of Jyväskylä

Focus areasGlobal Information SystemsSupporting globally distributed workgroupsOpen Educational ResourcesReference Modeling

E-LearningSupporting international education settingsCultural adaptationStandardization & Quality Management Mobile & Ambient LearningInnovative tools and solutions

ProjectsOpenDiscoverySpace: Open Content and Scenarios for SchoolsOpenScout: OER for ManagementTELMAP: Technology ForecastingNORDLET: Nordic Baltic Network for Learning, Education and TrainingCOSMOS: Open Science Resources: Exchange of Scientific ContentASPECT: Open Content and standards for schoolsiCOPER: New standards for educational technologies

From here…

Textbooks as a synonym for traditional, teacher-led, boring education…

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...to eTernityRe-inventing Books

“traditional” Pedagogy

“traditional” Contents

“traditional” Publishing

eLearning 2.0: InformalGrass Root Content

Self Generated

eLearning 3.0: Responsive

Digital Textbooks Marchitectures

eLearning 1.0: Formal

Labor & RecruitementManagement

Skills & Competencymanagement

Portfolio & Indentity Management

Performance & Talent Management

Web 2.0 Viral & Social Content

Distribution

Mobile & Location Based

Content Distribution

Personal Knowledge

Management

Formal Learning Informal Learning

Personal DevelopmentPlans

Summarising 15 Years of educational publishingTowards Next generation (Personal & Social) Responsive Digital Textbooks Marchitectures

Next Generation Digital Learning Marchitectures

& Ecosystems

Motivate – Engage – Remediate Each one

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In simple words…eTextbooks as THE distribution channel, e.g. using ebook readers, tablets, smartphones

eTextbooks must be– Adaptable / adaptive– Personalizable– Responsive– Flexible– Accessible

What should be different to traditional textbooks?– Learning activities– Multimedia– Adaptation / re-authoring– (Re-)combination– Assessments– Collaboration– More to be discussed today

Freedom of Choice?!

Ease of Use!

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Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

eTextbooks around the world…

Strong developments in Asia– China has proposed an approach based

on their national eTextbook/eSchoolbag specification

– South Korea has a competing approach, based on a Digital Smart Content specification, which is a national profile of EPUB3 extended with IMS Question and Test Interoperability, IMS Tools Interoperability specifications, and other national specifications

Few activities in Europe…

Time to Act!

Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

CEN Workshop Learning TechnologiesStarted its activities in February 1999

Development and use of relevant and appropriate standards for learning technologies for Europe

Supporting European Stakeholders to engage in standardization activities and create European consensus

Creating models, specifications, agreements, guidelines or recommendations

Providing a forum for the development and implementation of requirements-driven Learning Technologies e.g. through the development of a network or test bed for interoperability testing or through the creation of reference examples

Carefully examining and taking into account the various effects on learning and training technology standards which are due to the diversity of cultural backgrounds and languages that exists within Europe

Publicizing the Learning Technologies Workshop's activities and results to Relevant European projects, Technology developers and End users

Providing a forum for discourse and discussion for European project initiatives

Encouraging participation in global initiatives in order to ensure that diverse European requirements are properly addressed by those global initiatives

Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

eTernity: Role of CEN WS LTBringing European Stakeholders together!

A state of the art analysis on international initiatives, in particular DITA and EPUB3 from a publishing perspective, and activities within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 WG6– a clear picture of related activities in particular in the e-book publishing

sector,

Requirement gathering of European stakeholders, in particular publishers, educational service providers and school networks– bring together current strategies of publishers and publishing

standards (such as EPUB3 and DITA) and educational requirements– Ensuring that e-textbooks for learners can be enriched by educational

services, supporting adapting activities, re-mixing, tracking, sequencing, licensing, etc

Initial framework for adaptable e-books for learners: Based on the initial mappings, the CEN WS-LT will provide an initial abstract framework consisting of publishing standards and educational services as a basis for further standardization

Discourse, consensus, position development, international participation!

Collaboration with ISO/IEC– http://www.etextbook-standard.info/

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So why are we here?

Creating an initial understanding of several communities, perspectives and interests

Developing a European perspective on global issues

Understanding educational requirements in the context of digital publishing

Creating common initiatives and work items

But most important: understanding each other and entering discourse!

Authoring Tools Learning Management Systems

Content Providers

WordPowerpoint

FlashDreamweaver

LectoraReload

Captivate Articulate

eXact Packager......

Content Consumers

Content Producers

Content Curators

Managing change in Digital Textbooks ProductionFrom here…

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Authoring Tools Learning Management Systems

Content Providers

WordPowerpoint

FlashDreamweaver

LectoraReload

Captivate Articulate

eXact Packager......

Content Consumers

Content Producers

Content Curators

Managing change in Digital Textbooks ProductionFrom here…

10 Most Common Pain Points

1. Difficult to find existing content from past or distant productions

2. Hard to re-use templates across content productions

3. Having to produce content again for every new device

4. Having to test integration with new or multiple LMS platforms

5. Not easy to interoperate with existing HR and ERP data

6. Need to integrate content from multiple departments (i.e. Technical, Marketing, Training)

7. Many content producers/vendors to coordinate, across different nations and languages

8. A nightmare to manage large procurements processes for learning content production

9. Need to transform procurement and production towards a single stream

10.Need to standardize content production, course catalogues, access and delivery life cycles

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Content Providers

Content Consumers

Content Producers Content

Curators

Open External Repositories

Open External Tool Services

Object OrientedXml Schemas

Object Oriented Xml Stylesheets

Responsive TextBook

Folksonom

ies

Taxonomies

Business Intelligence

Learningrecords

Workflows

Single Sign On (Authentication, Authorization)

To eTernity A Sample Ecosystem

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eTernity: Some initial thoughts….

What are the key elements of a standard?– Base standards: DITA, EPUB3, …– Learning technology standards: LOM, MLR,

IMS LD/QTI, SCORM?– Technical standards: HTML5, XML, …

How to design an open architecture…– Combination of standards– APIs– Application Profiles– …

…and fulfill stakeholder interests – E.g. commercial vs open content

How to align international activities?

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Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

Some issues to include

Multi Channel Publishing

Workflow-/activity embedding

Content structures and modularization

Sequencing, tracking, monitoring

Connecting heterogeneous systems: LMS, HR systems, ERP systems, administration systems, e-portfolio

Learner profiles and data

Re-combination of contents– Combination of open and commercial contents

Personalization– Recommendations– Adaptation– Own learning pathways

Rights / IPR

Accessibility

Ease of Use!!!

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Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

eTernity: Goals for todayUnderstanding the basics– Current initiatives in business development and education– Current initiatives in standardization

Standards– EPUB3, DITA, html5, …– ISO standards

Working towards a European position– Mapped and related requirements gathering for education &

publishing– Position statement– Contribution towards relevant global workgroups

Action plan– Meeting schedule – Liaisons / collaborations – (Common) working groups– Proposal for CEN/ISSS WSLT– Project liaisons

Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

eTernity: CEN WSLT’s Plans

Kicking off the initiative– Stakeholder meeting and initial

requirements gathering

Work item at CEN WS LT– F2F meeting every three months– Specific online meetings– Express your support:

http://etextbookseurope.eu/?q=node/9

Input towards ISO/EC JTC1 SC36– Meeting in Paris in March– Meeting in Moscow in September

Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

eTernity: Agenda

Input statements– Publishing– Standards– Initiatives

Coffee Breaks & Lunch

Workshops: Discussion on potentially relevant issues– Introduction of each stakeholder– (uncommented) collection of requirements– Requirements and solutions

• E.g. allowing learning scenarios -> inclusion of learning designs / educational pathways

– Ranking & Action planning– Summary presentation

Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

Group Discussion

Workshops Topics: – Scenarios and requirements following the

lifecycle– Technical standards and architecture

Group phases– (uncommented) collection of requirements for

each phase / standards per issue (30 mins)– Developing possible scenarios and

requirements (1h)– Possible solutions

• E.g. allowing learning scenarios -> inclusion of learning designs / educational pathways

– Ranking & Action planning (30 mins)– Summary presentation

Jan M. Pawlowski, University of Jyväskylä

Jan M. Pawlowski

jan.pawlowski@jyu.fi

http://users.jyu.fi/~japawlow

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