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Zentrum für Multimedia in der Lehre

eLene-TT eLearning Network Teachers Training

Kick-Off-Meeting, Nice 2005

WP6: VLRC

Virtual Learning Resource Centre

Yildiray OgurolYildiray Ogurol

Center for Multimedia in Higher EducationCenter for Multimedia in Higher Education

http://www.zmml.uni-bremen.de


VLRC - Background The World Wide Web (WWW) has many advantages in

distribution and presentation of electronic learning resources.

Problem: Finding the right offers / resources on demand. Goal: Providing a solution based on international

standards called Virtual Learning Resource Centre (VLRC), which provides a meta-data collection of learning resources.

VLRC offers services for authors to document and for users (teachers & teachers trainers) to retrieve resources (based on the meta-data)

The VLRC also offers content management functionalities?


WP6 – VLRC (Objectives)6.1 Design and validate overall structure of website 6.2 Design, create and integrate content for public area (1) 6.3 Design and create KM area (2), select and integrate appropriate tools. 6.4 Maintain, update

01/01/05 WP6: Website

Website comprised of 3 areas: 1: public dissemination/communication area 2: private knowledge management area for partners 3: Virtual Learning Resource Centre (VLRC)

6.5 Design and validate structure, technical specifications, functionalities of VLRC area (3) 6.6 Design and create database and templates for integration of content in VLRC 6.7 Design, create and integrate interactive multimedia content 6.8 Proof-read and debug 6.9 Maintain, update database 6.10 Write VLRC reference and user manual

01/06/05


Approach International Standards

– Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Specification (IEEE-Standard 1484) adopted by Instructional Management System (IMS)

– XML as syntax for interfaces and SQL-Database for storage

Define technical specifications and functionalities Design the architecture of VLRC Design the Templates for describing resources (Authors) Design the Templates for direct retrieval (Users & Authors) Build an interactive guidance system for profile based retrieval

(Users & Authors)


LOM (Learning Object Model)LOM General

Lifecycle

MetaMetaData

Technical

Educational

Rights

Relation

Annotation

Classification


evaluation evidence

type

description

location

Annotation

quality management process

standard

description

location

LOM-Extensions


VLRC - Architecture

VLRCRepository

Web-Service

Web-Frontend

HTML PDF XML

User

Import

eLearning ApplicationSOAP

XML-File

<xml version="1.0"?><lom><general>…</general>…</lom>


Activities1. Installation of server environment:

– SQL-Database– Existing Learning Ressource Server (LRS)

2. Adaptation of LRS datamodel for LOM-Standard3. Adaptation of LRS front-end4. Result: VLRC with retrieval and storage capabilities

based on LOM for Users (Teachers & Teachers Trainers)

5. Integration of VLRC in the overall website6. Provide interactive guidance system for profile based

retreavel bases

7. Documentation (reference, user manual)


Intermediate Milestones

VLRC 1.0 (October 2005) Integration and Adaption to overall Website (December 2005) Completing User Manual for VLRC 1.0 (November 2005) Interactive Guidance System (February 2006) VLRC 2.0 incl. interactive guidance (April 2006) Completing User Manual for VLRC 2.0 (May 2006) Revision with respect to user feedback and results of

evaluation (November 2006) Completing system reference for VLRC 2.0 (December 2006)

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