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SURF X4L SURF X4L Repurposing of Content for Use in VLEs
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Repurposing of Content for Use in VLEs
Who are SURF X4L?Who are SURF X4L?
Staffordshire University, Shrewsbury College of Art & Technology and Stoke College
Other Partners are RNCB, WM-RSC, FENC and vendors
VLEs include COSE, Learnwise and TekniCAL
What is SURF X4L doing?What is SURF X4L doing?
All about finding, reusing and repurposing content in VLEs
Looking at tools, pedagogy and methods
Looking at standardsStaff development and Culture
Change
What will SURF X4L do?What will SURF X4L do?
Train staff to find, acquire, reuse & repurpose content to:
Put into SURF VLEs Put into repositories for others to reuse &
repurpose Produce pedagogic and good practice guides Produce new versions of COSE and other tools
SURF X4L @ Staffordshire UniversitySURF X4L @ Staffordshire University
Main technical effort in investigating tools & systems and writing code to enable COSE content to be exported as standalone content. Content produced in COSE can now be saved as specification conformant content packages, needing only a javascript enabled browser for navigation & viewing. Such packages can be viewed in RELOAD, uploaded to the JORUM Intralibrary repository, and, as demonstrated using the ADL Sample RTE, with some modifications, run a SCORM conformant environment.
See screenshots below, or ask for a demo to learn more
Still much work to do, but the first project phase has been quite encouraging. Priorities now addressing structuring the content for aggregation & disaggregation to aid re-use, investigating changes to COSE architecture to progress with SCORM, more work in exchanging content with the proprietary VLEs (Blackboard, Learnwise and TekniCAL) used by project partners.
Standalone COSE content package in the RELOAD viewer >>
<< Standalone COSE content package loaded into RELOAD
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standalone COSE content package in the Intralibrary viewer >>
<< standalone COSE content packages uploaded into Intralibrary
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standalone COSE content package in the Intralibrary viewer >>
<< COSE content package in the ADL SCORM RTE
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SURF X4L @ Shrewsbury CollegeSURF X4L @ Shrewsbury College
Wide range of learning materials, tools & learning objects made available to staff:
NLN Materials FENC Materials JISC Collections RDN Materials
SURF X4L @ Shrewsbury CollegeSURF X4L @ Shrewsbury College
Produced range of materials for each curriculum area•Word documents (converted using authoring tool)•PowerPoint•Web page creation•Hot Potatoes•Teknical question designer & authoring tools
A range of sample materials for each subject:•Introduction•Resources•Quizzes•Summary
A learning package created from a series of learning objects or ‘chunks’ of learning
SURF X4L @ Shrewsbury CollegeSURF X4L @ Shrewsbury College
Use of Teknical authoring tool
Standard word document Creation of an interactive
learning package
SURF X4L @ Shrewsbury CollegeSURF X4L @ Shrewsbury College
Uploaded a range of materials onto Shrewsbury College’s VLEVirtual Campus (Teknical)Structure set up for each curriculum area and schoolStaff beginning to produce more material & use the systemIntegration of collaborative tools
SURF X4L @ Shrewsbury CollegeSURF X4L @ Shrewsbury College
NEXT… Continue production of
learning materials in various formats
Assisting staff to produce materials /objects
Further development of metadata and compliancy
Transfer of learning packages from one VLE to another
SURF X4L @ Stoke CollegeSURF X4L @ Stoke College
Standalone Packages– Recombo– LWP– Lectora– LRN3 Toolkit– Canvas– Crocodile Clips
Plugins for Applications– PPT/Frontpage LRN
Export– Teknical– courseGenie
Evaluation of Authoring Packages
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Standalone Packages– Recombo– LWP– Lectora– LRN3 Toolkit– Canvas– Crocodile Clips
Plugins for Applications
– PPT/Frontpage LRN Export
– Teknical
– courseGenie
Authoring Packages & Delivery Environments
VLE
– Learnwise
– COSE
Standalone
– LRN3 Toolkit
– ADL RTE
– Teknical Viewer
– Black Arrow
SURF X4L @ Stoke CollegeSURF X4L @ Stoke College
MethodologyMixed Sample topics–Variety of subject areas/levels
–Differing Media/delivery requirements
–Wide range of data sources
Data SourcesLegacy Materials–FENC–In House Authored
Free Public LibrariesNLN Resources
I & IIGranada Media LibrariesIn House created Media–Sound/Video/Flash
Subject AreasFood TechnologyAMSPARMeetings SkillsWeb DesignElectronicsDyslexia AwarenessBrickworkCIMA AccountancyFoundation Degrees (with Staffs Uni)
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Findings so far…
•Interoperability currently rather poor
•No one authoring environment or delivery system copes well
•Some not at all
SURF X4L Contacts at WarwickSURF X4L Contacts at Warwick
Mark Stiles [email protected] Clarke [email protected] Booth
[email protected] Blakemore
