1. RECAL Rachel Ellaway, Stewart Cromar & David Dewhurst Learning Technology Section, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh RECAL

2. The CAL Graveyard Flash Director DHTML Javascript Cold Fusion THEY are all doomed!

3. RECAL The Curse of the Runtime RUNTIMERESOURCESPEDAGOGYSEQUENCING DECEAS ED

4. RECAL Set your CAL free! RUNTIMERESOURCESPEDAGOGYSEQUENCING You have nothing to lose but your chains …

5. RECAL Mature technologies: XML, Flash, web applications etc Mature specifications: learning objects, metadata, sequencing, learning design Mature contexts: LMS/VLEs, portals, repositories, Mature uses: pedagogy, andragogy, heutagogy, blended learning How high an LTech ‘body count’ will we tolerate? Now IS the time

6. RECAL 3-year project based at the University of Edinburgh Concentrating on biomedical sciences Developing a decoupled CAL object model Separate assets, instructions, templates and runtime shells Developing a user community Shared and open research & development RECAL: an answer

7. RECAL RECAL Architecture Assets: images, sounds, movies, animations, data, html, css Elements: generic page and other rendering templates - 1˚ in MM Flash Sequencing: pages & their metadata, rendering preferences, sequence and presentation - XML Runtime: generic shell(s) - 1˚ in MM Flash

8. RECAL RECAL Architecture XML1XML2 Parameters Assets Parameters Assets RUNTIME Parameters

9. RECAL Prove it! DEMO

10. RECAL RECAL Runtime RUNTIME clickprefs.xml - language, orientation manifest.xml - elements & pages 1st page template + navigation 1st page assets new page template new page contentnew page assets

11. RECAL If RECAL then: Templates, branding and skins - accessibility Different run-time Changing epistemology Changing pedagogy Changing sequencing Changing resources and content Adaptation: language, culture etc Why was that again?

12. RECAL Objects are fine, but what about future- proofing and interoperability? RECAL will use e-learning standards and specifications: Learning objects: IEEE LOM Sequencing: SCORM, IMSSS, IMSLD Distribution: IMSCP, IMSDR ?state, ?learner Standards and Specifications

13. RECAL RECAL is not about doing things ‘to’ people but ‘with’ people Nurturing a developer community: testing and evaluation adaptation and translation new templates and materials new learning designs RECAL Development Community

14. RECAL Tension between abstraction and functionality Specifications still evolving Ownership and control Legacy mountain Developing skills Developing infrastructure Changing the culture Issues

15. RECAL Proof-of-concept and technology R&D Standards and specifications Disaggregation and reaggregation Repository Developer tools Developer community And then …… RECAL Roadmap

16. RECAL Rachel Ellaway, Stewart Cromar & David Dewhurst Learning Technology Section, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The University of Edinburgh RECAL thank you Rachel.Ellaway@ed.ac.uk Stewart.Cromar@ed.ac.uk