Interoperability in Action Presented By: Steve Rogers and Mark Power

Steve Rogers – Technical Officer EDINA NLN Materials Delivery Project Speakers Steve Rogers – Technical Officer EDINA NLN Materials Delivery Project JORUM Mark Power CETIS X4L Support Officer

Session Details 1 Introductions Overview presentation Demonstration 20 mins 4 Summary 5 Questions & Discussion 10 mins 10 mins

X4L Programme “X4L is a current JISC programme, which is exploring the re-purposing of JISC-funded content, suitable for use in learning.” Strand A - 22 Content Production Projects Strand B - Tools Development JORUM – Repository Research & Development RELOAD – Packaging & Learning Design, available now free & open source TOIA – question and assessment application, soon to be released to UK FE & HE communities

X4L & Interoperability “Interoperability - the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged..” users are not locked into proprietary systems transportable between different systems production of conformant reusable LOs that are re-purposable accessible to a range of tools and LMS

Why interoperability? - Scenarios 1 - lecturer finds content that another has put into a repository - exports that content and runs it from a VLE 2 - resource team finds content that a lecturer has put into a repository - resource team re-purposes that content - resource team exports that content and runs it from a VLE

Interoperability and the JISC IE Athens IESR shared services Local/national repositories, institutional repositories, HLSI, MERLOT etc. JISC LO repository LO import export IMS CP LO import/ creation Search/harvest NLN repository OAI Z39.50 RSS provision layer LT portal portlets NLN portal Packager/editor Tool e.g. Reload VLEs, authoring tools, TOIA Presentation layer

Interoperability and X4L Repository 1 (e.g. intraLibrary) IMS CP Export Repository 2 (e.g. Xtensis) LO import export IMS CP Search/Retrieve LO import/ creation provision layer Search interface Packager/editor Tool e.g. Reload Presentation layer VLE 1 VLE 2 VLEs, authoring tools, TOIA

The main specifications of interest are: IEEE LOM (learning object metadata) IMS Content Packaging IMS QTI (question & test interoperability) ADL SCORM (sharable content object reference model)

What are the aims of the demonstration? Demonstration Aims What are the aims of the demonstration? Show that we can transport packages between systems Can make packages available to users through a variety of players Show how conformance facilitates re-purposing of content Identify areas requiring further progress, such as qti

What is being demonstrated ? Demonstration What is being demonstrated ? search and retrieve content from JORUM export and open in RELOAD re-purpose in RELOAD search and retrieve questions from TOIA aggregate with content using 3rd party player and RELOAD import into VLEs (Olympus & WebCT)

delete unwanted content Demonstration search and retrieve from TOIA search and retrieve from JORUM ‘Logic Questions’ ‘Combination Logic’ Create new question Export ‘Combination Logic’ Export ‘3 Logic qti questions’ Import into RELOAD delete unwanted content Aggregate New Content Aggregate ‘3 Logic qti questions’ Export from RELOAD Import into VLEs

Demonstration

Summary What have we been able to show? can exchange objects between repository systems can export objects from repositories and re-purpose in other tools can import qti assessments into existing content, but currently with some intervention Can transport this re-purposed content to a number of VLEs

weblinks JORUM www.jorum.ac.uk RELOAD www.reload.ac.uk TOIA www.toia.ac.uk X4L ‘One Year On’ Website www.x4l.org Canvas Learning Player www.canvaslearning.co.uk Xtensis eLearning Ltd www.xtensis.co.uk Intrallect www.intrallect.com