1. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings Building Course Web Sites and Content Repositories Jacques Raynauld Chair of Learning and Teaching Technologies in Management Education HEC Montréal Leonard M. Jessup, Dean College of Business and Economics Washington State University

2. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings Overview Developing and managing electronic content is a key issue for distance learning programs as well as regular on-campus courses This question will be discussed from two different perspectives : –HEC Montréal is adressing this issue by building a very structured object oriented environment –WSU has been actively involved in distance learning programs using the WEB-CT learning platform

3. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings Jacques Raynauld Institute of Applied Economics HEC Montréal Olivier Gerbé Department of Information Techologies HEC Montréal

4. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings Overview Key facts about HEC Montréal Objectives of the project A glimpse of the architecture A short demo The next steps

5. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings HEC Montréal HEC Montréal is a large business school part of the University of Montreal campus 200+ full time faculty 10 000 full-time and part-time students New building in 1996 All classes are wired and equiped with a video- data projector 8 000 network outlets ThinkPad University since 1997

6. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings Objectives of the project Regroup all the course Web sites in one easy to use platform … … with a common student interface Build a sophisticated security environment with private … and public access (MIT Open Course ware) Support teaching to numerous sections Build a content repository for re-using and sharing learning objects

7. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings Course Z Sec A01 L1 L2 Syllabus Sec A02 ABC3 ABC2 L1 L2 Syllabus DEF1 Architecture Content Repository ABC2 ABC1ABC3 DEF1 ABC1

8. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings A short demo

9. April 20 2004AACSB Meetings The next steps Summer 2004 pilot Full use at the Falll 2004 semester Developping the practice of sharing content –Copywright issues –Business Model –Getting the momentum! Indexing the electronic content of the repository (LOM + discipline specific tagging, i.e. ontology) SCORM compliant : how to connect to outside platforms through structured XML