1. © 2004 What is Greatness? ­This is a simple educational scenario used to illustrate aspects of the IMS Learning Design specification (IMS LD) ­It is based on parts of the “What is greatness?” use-case created by James Dalziel of Macquarie University’s E-learning Centre of Excellence (MELCOE) and on work done by Pierre Gorissen in the Alfanet project

2. © 2004 What is Greatness ­Narrative ­Students individually consider “what is greatness?”; ­They enter a few sentences of initial thoughts; ­This process is monitored and ended by the tutor; ­All learners then see all responses (anonymous); ­All learners then enter personal reflections on all responses (not made public); ­The tutor receives all responses and personal reflections once the have been entered; ­The tutor gives feedback on the responses and reflections and finishes the learning activity on a per learner basis.

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4. Roles

5. © 2004 Play, Act, Role-parts, Activity structures, Completion

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8. Learning Activities (1)

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10. Learning Activities (2a) This activity involves the learner entering thoughts …

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12. Learning Activities (2b) This activity involves the learner entering thoughts … This property set by the tutor who is monitoring how the group is doing …

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16. How did the flow move on?

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18. © 2004 New Act available Activities in previous act affected by this change using SHOW and HIDE in CONDITIONs

19. © 2004 Learners able to view others’ thoughts using Monitor service in environment …

20. © 2004 … and respond to these thoughts

21. © 2004 Tutor able to view initial thoughts and response for each learner Then set to completed for each learner which completes the second act and the play

22. © 2004 What aspects of IMS LD did we see? ­Multiple roles ­Collaboration ­A learning service ­Properties ­Completion rules ­Conditions ­Showing and Hiding ­Global elements