Development and Implementation Awayday: Out of my comfort zone August 7, 2009
Posted by vickimcgarvey in : Comms , trackbackI am trying to make a commitment to blog weekly. I am still collating the excellent outputs from our awayday.
As part of the awayday I put some some flip chart sheets around the room on each I put the heading “Out of My Comfort Zone” – this was to encourage attendees to highlight any areas of the project that they needed more information on; they required more personal development and to put just general question (… on Post-its that they could stick on the sheets. No I am not part of the Post-it hierarchy but they are quite versatile for paper microblogging and brainstorming – could these be counted as affordances of Post-its?)
As a result these are the the issues that came out:
- How do we involve our Information Systems Service e.g. particularly in the areas of streaming and storage of multimedia
- Eportfolio tagging is good can this be enabled for LOR?
- Can we rate Learning Objects e.g. stars & comments?
- Links to the LOR – should it appear in the Nav bar it might be confusing for students?
- If a dynamic link is copied from a learning room to another, does it copy the link successfully
- What is IEEE LOM?
- What is a metadata schema?
- What is the definition of a Learning Object? How granular can we go?
- Should we be using the term Open Content rather than learning object?
- Can the level of learning object be automatically added to metadata?
- QA’ing metadata at institutional level if this is necessary who will do it?
- I would like a demo of setting up a trust in NOW
- More explanation on how you would publish to different levels in the hierarchy
- I would like an explanation of different metadata schema, who uses them and why
- Is there a place where I can find all the repositories or is there some way we could bring together links to repositories
- LOR is not quite what I thought it’s not fully open access
- There are quite a lot of channels of communication
- Students will want access to information that they studied last year – how can they access this stuff?
- A catalogue of open LORs would be helpful
- It would be useful to have an overview for the steering group chair and NTU eLearning Working Group
These questions will now help to inform some staff development activities for team members as well as information dissemination. Of course the team can also add to these so it is open list.
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Yvonne Monterosso from D2L has very kindly provided some answers to the questions presented at our awayday
ePortfolio tagging is not available currently in the LOR
2. You can rate learning objects in the LOR
3. Links to the LOR – should it appear in the Nav bar it might be confusing for students? If students have access to view objects in the LOR but not search the LOR, even with a link in the Nav bar, students would not see it as it is controlled by the ability to search LOR.
4. A dynamic link copied manually or using the copy course components tool will successfully work.
5. IEEE LOM – a formal and extensive metadata application profile or schema
6. Metadata schema – a defined list of fields and vocabularies for describing a learning object
7. Definitions of learning objects are widely debated. Within the D2L, you CAN be very granular and store learning objects and assets where an asset may be a single graphic file for example
8. Open Content – this is a org decision, you should use the terminology that makes sense to your users
9. A demo of setting up a trust can be arranged, let me know
10. A demonstration of classifying objects in a hierarchy can be arranged
11. LOM is the most widely adopted metadata schema among our clients, though within the educational community the simpler Dublin Core is also used extensively. For our clients (and more broadly within LORs), most use a smaller subset of metadata from one of the 2 schemas. D2L provides the crosswalks so the metadata entered in one schema can be viewed and exported in the other very easily.
12. LOR is not fully open access- this is by design to allow you to protect IPR where necessary and provide some structure and barriers to the content, however, you can create fully open objects for viewing and harvesting if you chose to.
13. Catalogue of open LORs – here are 2 such catalogues: http://www.openarchives.org//Register/BrowseSites and http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/