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BC "Learning Content Strategies" meeting
http://tinyurl.com/5tqmz8 Most of you will know one of my long term projects has been to help share online learning resources across BC and beyond. One of the main stumbling blocks to effective sharing has been the diverse (divisive?) environments in which the material are produced/housed/assembled (at last count there are at least 5 major flavours [...]
Course Management System Content Conversion Tools wikipage
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/CMS+Conversion+Tools One of my main gigs is running a repository service to help faculty here in BC share online course content. As I have likely lamented far too many times, the bane of my existence is the uneven support for content interoperability across the various course management systems. At last count we had at least [...]
bfree – export courses from Blackboard
http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/ Another useful pointer from Michael Roy at Wesleyan’s Academic Commons, bFree is a tool built by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It allows you to open a Blackboard course export or archive file, select the files you want and then export these as an independent website. This might not seem like [...]
XERTE – Free Visual Editor for SCORM compliant Flash Learning Objects
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/Editor/ Wow, I feel really torn about posting about this at all. When I stumbled across this today I was quite excited; while the promise of content interoperability has been there for quite a while now, the availability of easy to use tools for producing such content outside of the CMS delivery environments has been [...]
Short Video on Common Cartridge
http://www.sakaiproject.org/media2/2006/ altidemo06/altidemo06.htm If you’ve ever tried to export a course from an existing CMS in a ‘specifications-’compliant format you’ll know that currently the best you can likely do is get the content as IMS Content Packages and hopefully the quizzes separately in IMS QTI format. Leaving the rest of the course (discussion forums, assignments, etc) [...]
alt-i-lab 2006 presentations available
http://www.imsglobal.org/altilab/index.cfm If you’re an elearning standards geek then there’s lots to sift through in this collection of presentations from the recent Alt-i-lab 2006 sessions in Indiana. And if you’re not, then be warned that forcing yourself to go through these is likely to aggrevate any masochistic tendencies you may already harbour. Part of me really [...]
Presentation on Archiving Course Websites to DSpace, Using a Content Packaging Profile & Web Services
http://cwspace.mit.edu/docs/ProjectMgt/Reports/ DLF-Spring2006/MIT-CWSpace-DLF-Spring2006.ppt.htm For a long time I’ve been asked about available open source learning object repositories, and specifically about whether DSpace could work as a LOR. My answer regarding DSpace, up to now, has always been – well it depends on what your use cases are. If you didn’t care about things like IMS Content [...]
CETIS writeup on Alt-I-Lab 2005 Demonstrators
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/content2/20050901184010 It’s been eagerly awaited (at least by me!), and likely delayed because of all the other stuff going on at CETIS and the need for the good folks there to take a well-deserved break this summer, but we are all fortunate to finally get a more detailed write-up on the interoperability demos from the [...]
Remote Question Protocol
http://mantis.york.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=14 You know there has to be something to this because a) it hasn’t been widely hyped, as far as I know b) they actually seem to be shipping code and working specifications. What a nice contrast. A high level description of this web services protocol to provide remote processing of assessment items on behalf [...]
Presentations available from 2005 Alt-i-Lab sessions
http://www.imsglobal.org/altilab/ June has been a busy month in the post-secondary elearning world; along with the release of Sakai 2.0, another major milestone happened this month at the Alt-i-lab sessions in Sheffield, England. The page above links to many of the presentations and demonstrations that took place there, possibly most notable of which was the first [...]
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