1. DC-Education Working Group The DC-Ed Application Profile Jon Mason, EdNA Stuart Sutton, GEM Co-Chairs

2. New Mission of the DCMI The mission of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is to make it easier to find resources using the Internet through the following activities: Developing metadata standards for resource discovery across domains Defining frameworks for the interoperation of metadata sets Facilitating the development of community- or domain-specific metadata sets that work within these frameworks Facilitating the development of community- or domain-specific metadata sets that work within these frameworks

3. Activities Face-to-Face Meetings: October 27-28, 1999 (Frankfurt) Scanned existing education metadata initiatives for common attributes Identified five categories of descriptive need Statements about users of a resource (audience) Statements about duration (use time) of a resource Statements about teaching & learning processes & characteristics of a resource Statements about process & content standards to which a resource conforms Statements about quality assessments of a resource

4. Activities (Continued) February 19-20, 2000 (Melbourne) Participants (DC community & IEEE 1484.12 community) Developed criteria for evaluation Reached consensus on four of the five areas of need (users, standards, duration, quality) Not enough time for the others –Teaching/learning methods & processes –Refined audience facets (e.g., level) –Quality (best left to local applications) All remaining on this coming years agenda … Vocabulary Issues Resource Type

5. Activities (Continued) Moving the Proposal Proposal to Melbourne participants (March 1-7, 2000) Proposal DC-Education listserv (March 7-April 15, 2000) Proposal to DC-General (April 15-April 30, 2000) Proposal to DC Executive Committee (April 30, 2000) Tomorrowheaded for the DC-Usage Committee … Decision Points: Do the aspects of the proposal meet the appropriate element/qualifier criteria

6. DC-Education Proposal Audience (element) Description: A category of user for whom the resource is intended Mediator (element qualifier) –Description: An entity that mediates access to the resource Standard (Alternative mechanisms) Alternative 1: standard (element) Description: A reference to an established education or training standard to which the resource is associated identifier (element qualifier) –Description: An identifier (or notation) that serves to uniquely identify the standard being associated version (element qualifier) –Description: Information identifying the version of the standard being referenced

7. DC-Education Proposal Alternative 2: relation (element) conformsTo (element qualifier) –Description: A reference to an established education or training standard to which the resource is associated

8. Context for Cooperation Past: August 1999 Current: Resolution of 1 st stage of an IEEE LOM MOU Cooperation & the acknowledging of namespaces Emerging: Harmonization of activities across two broad groups of initiatives in educational resources Gateways/resource discovery initiatives (primarily situated in the education community); e.g., EdNA (Australia) & GEM (US) Specification initiatives for comprehensive e-learning solutions (situated in private sector, government & higher education) Resource Packaging & Discovery; Agents (student, teachers, bus drivers); Events (sequencing of learning events, testing, grading, & passing of transcripts etc. among course management shells & enterprise systems) E.g., Ariadne (EU) & Instructional Management Systems (US) Deficient description of the teaching/learning facets of resources

9. DC-Education Proposal IEEE 1484.12/Ariadne/IMS (LOM) Endorsement: typicalLearningTime (DC-Ed duration) Approximate or typical time it takes to work with this resource interactivityType The flow of interaction between this resource and the intended user interactivityLevel The degree of interactivity between the end user and this resource

10. DCMI Process Ramifications Operation and jurisdiction of the Usage Committee [Tentative] Tiered Model: Proposed Conforming Recommended Obsolete Relationship between DC-Education Working Group proposals and other DC working groups: Resource Type DC1 (and future work of the Type Working Group) Relation Proposed Relation element qualifiers (conformsTo)