1. Greater Arizona eLearning Association (GAZEL)
E-Learning Research Portal (ELRP) Project Overview
Presented March 2, 2006 by
Mark Goldstein, President, International Research Center
(602) ,
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA - funded study
Proposes a web portal project to provide government researchers and other e-learning research communities with a rich and highly relevant e-learning research database, coupled with sophisticated retrieval, visualization & collaboration tools to aid research productivity & quality
Utilizes a custom taxonomy, XML variant, semantic analysis, and meta tagged database, with continuous automatic & manual updating, covering e-learning research institutions and practitioners, related Communities of Practice (CoP), topical news feeds, relevant literature & external resources
Search capabilities support a variety of querying, navigation, and presentation functions and capabilities, including clustering of relevant results, advanced 3-D visualization and knowledge navigation, targeted strategic alerts, as well as user designated pathways to relevant knowledge
IDA E-Learning Research Portal (ELRP) Project Overview - February 2006

2. This E-Learning Research Portal (ELRP) would have a variety of tangible and intangible benefits, as well as a substantial impact on the e-learning research community, and perhaps the e-learning industry as a whole. Some of the expected tangible benefits include:
Improved productivity for practicing e-learning researchers and increased opportunities & value in connecting collaborative players
Depth and quality of search assures good grounding for initiatives
Underlying ontology and taxonomy efforts will define, refine, and aid e-learning research and industry strategic focus
Improved e-learning research will yield improved e-learning products, enhancing their deployment and effectiveness
Improved e-learning and its deployment will serve training needs for workplace skills and drive economic engines around the globe
Project implementation risk low using existing & emerging toolsets
Modest budget to pilot ($250K), implement ($750K) and sustain
Multiple practical scenarios for “institutionalizing” with long-term maintenance, evolution & support of multiple research communities

3. E-Learning Research Portal Home Page
Communities
of Practice
E-Learning
Resource
Index/Links
E-Learning
News Feeds
& Blogs
E-Learning
Research
Query Entry
Meta Data
Repository
E-Learning
Researcher
Collaboration
CoP
Discussion
Groups
Information
Processing
Collaboration
Environment
& Tools
Discussion
Groups
Archive
Knowledge
Visualization
& Navigation
About,
Contact,
Press Releases
Privacy Policy,
Terms of Use,
Disclaimer
Institutions &
Researchers
Directory
End User
Feedback &
Data Input

4. Information Architecture Information Architecture Management
Data Sources
Information Architecture
Information Architecture
Management
Interviews/
Surveys
E-Learning
Research
Knowledge Map
Knowledge Map,
Taxonomy &
XML Authoring &
Management Tools
User
Feedback &
Suggestions
E-Learning
Research
Ontology/Taxonomy
Online
Submittals
E-Learning
Research
XML Variant
Information Warehouse
Queries
Results
Communities
of Practice
Indexing
E-Learning
Research
Meta Data
Repository
Information Processing
Autonomic
Semantic Analysis
& Meta Tagging
Selective
Web Site
Indexing
Data
News Feeds
& Blogs
Manual Review
& Meta Tagging
Data