Tokyo, February 14-16, 2007 From Learning Object To Learning Services LORNET Contribution to GLOBE Dr Gilbert Paquette LORNET Director Télé-université
Pan-canadian Applied Research Network 6 Universities, 4 Research Chairs, 18 partners 5 years, 7.5 M $, 120 investigators Backround POND, CAREO, CLOE, SNet,CanLOM, RM, Splash, Aloha,… eduSource: Federated Search ECL, ERS LORNET Suite of Tools PALOMA + ECL-2 GLOBE partnership LORNET Presentation
LORNET Leaders Télé-université in Montreal and LICEF-CIRTA is host of the network - Dr. Gilbert Paquette, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Engineering of Telelearning Systems Simon Fraser University, Dr. Marek Hatala and Dr Griff Richards Director of Laboratory for Ontological Research University of Saskatchewan – Dr. Jim Greer and Dr. Gordon McCalla, Co-directors of the ARIES Laboratory University of Waterloo - Dr. Mohamed Kamel, Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Intelligent Systems and Director of the PAMI laboratory, University of Ottawa - Dr. Nicolas D. Georganas and Dr Abed El Saddik Canada Research Chair in Information Technology and Director of the Discover laboratory, École Polytechnique de Montréal - Dr. Samuel Pierre, NSERC/Ericsson Industrial Chair in Next Generations Mobile Networking Systems and Director of the LARIM laboratory,
LORNET Partners
LORNET Activities Webcasts seminars from different locations Past seminars are accessible for partners in Video streaming Theme workshops in each of the research centers, labs or Research Chairs. 1st International conference I2LOR-04 Montreal November nd International Conference I2LOR-05 Vancouver, November nd International Conference I2LOR-06 Montreal, November 2006 LORNET Web Site InfoLORNET ExtraLORNET
LORNET in GLOBE To attain a critical mass of high quality content both in French and English To help federate the numerous LO repositories in Canada that are dispersed To make the results of the eduSource and LORNET projects more useful To share technology and educational advances with others to foster innovation in the use of learning objects
Our Priorities A. Tool set for LOR management B. Federating Canadian Repositories with GLOBE C. Quality Assurance Methodology
A- Tool Set: Paloma Web
A- Tool Set : PALOMA Search
A- Tool Set: PALOMA Open Source Integration LOM Metatagger (LOMPAD) Multiple Repository manager Rights manager Search engines: federated, boolean, classification browsing Communication API LCMS Integration: Moodle, D2L,… TELOS (LORNET’s assembly system)
B- Federating Canadian Repositories with GLOBE UQTR ARIADNE POND LORNET Registry SQI Registry SQI Compliant repositories PALOMA Compliant repositories PALOMA API FSE Client/ PALOMA Client FSE Engine Edna SFU USask Registry to Registry UQAM UQAC
B- Federating New Repositories with GLOBE ressources being integrated in Quebec A network of 10 Quebec universities: 6000 Université de Moncton (NB) : 2000 College level repository Euréka : Ministry of Education and GRICS : Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) : 900 Re-integrate repositories from eduSource network and other sources Discussion started with CMEC: Council of Ministers of Education of Canada
C- Quality Assurance Methodology A 2 year project with Globe Partners
C- Quality Assurance Design/ Production Deposit and metadata referencing Adaptation and Reuse Life-cycle of a LOR Before inclusion During inclusion After inclusion Quality of the object Quality of Metadata Quality of the process
C- Before Inclusion: Identify Quality Criteria, Instructional Design Quality Content Quality Goal Alignment Feedback and Adaptability Motivation Visual Design Usability Accessibility Reusability Standard conformance
C- During Inclusion Search for Repository Quality not the individual quality of the LR. The quality of the metadata and of the referencing method (procedures and principles) applied. Ways to favor author’s responsability and motivation Multi-actor expertise for metadata Reduce form-filling: wizards, automatic or semi-automatic computer agents
C- After Inclusion Retrieval quality, maintenance planned at inclusion Peer reviews, evaluations from actual users/reusers. Advertise innovative and high quality resources Provide recommendations to authors for improvements Propose search options: metadata, classification, free text etc.
Tokyo, February 14-16, 2007 LORNET Contribution To GLOBE