Implications of COLIS for Implications of COLIS for Course Development: Course Development:
The need for secondary The need for secondary usage meta-datausage meta-data
Presenters: Robyn Philip and James Dalziel
16th ODLAA Conference, Canberra, September 2003
Sustaining Quality Learning Environments
• Rationalisation of resources reuse
• Cost of development
• Interoperability
• Standards
• Nature of the academic work in 21 century– Rate of change
– Contractual, fragmented, ‘time poor’ workforce
– Professional development needs - technology
– Need to search for and locate resources quickly
Current trends impacting on course developmentCurrent trends impacting on course development
What does this mean in practice?What does this mean in practice?
•Searching multiple databases and repositories
•Evaluation of resources
•Need for context specific and culturally appropriate resources
•Customisation and adaptation
•Copyright issues
•Integration with learning management system
University Partners Industry Participants AssociatesSponsors
COLIS DemonstratorCOLIS Demonstrator
Directories
Content Management
Library E-Services
E-Reserve
E-Journals
Learning Object
Management
Integration
Learning Management
Digital Rights Management
COLIS Integration Service ChunksCOLIS Integration Service Chunks
Interaction of IT Systems & RepositoriesInteraction of IT Systems & Repositories
Continuation of COLIS 2003 – IIS&R Project
1. Educational research
• Macquarie/OTEN, Murdoch, Monash, Tasmania, WestOne/Curtin, CETIS (UK)
2. Substitution by vendors
• Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, myintranet, Ebullient, intrallect, ExLibris, Concord, Blackboard, Harvest Road, WebCT, Endeavour
What does this mean for the ‘Arranger’?What does this mean for the ‘Arranger’?
• Search and retrieval of licensed learning objects
• Granularity - size & complexity
• Cycle of reuse - not ‘silos’
• Currier & Campbell (2002) – DNER&LO study
What will facilitate process?What will facilitate process?
• Systems that meet needs– Comparable to or better than current resource gathering
• Ease of reuse - relative advantage – Compatible, trialable, observable (Rogers 1983)
• Documentation of content and practice
• Change management – Program or operating milieu (Scott 1999)
– Mechanisms and rewards - strategic level
– Reflective practice - embedded
What will facilitate process - standards?What will facilitate process - standards?
• The value of current meta-data– User needs for secondary usage meta-data
• The impact of Learning Design– Need new kinds of meta-data
– Changes the role of content meta-data
URLSURLS
Interaction of IT Systems and Repositories (IIS&R, 2003)
http://www.melcoe.mq.edu.au/projects/iis&r.htm
COLIS background information (2002)
http://www.colis.mq.edu.au/
Merlot database (peer reviewed)
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
EDNA (Education Network Australia)
Metadata standards
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/pid/333
Metadata Debate, AEShareNet & Macquarie University, March 2003
‘To meta-tag or not to meta-tag? A skeptical view’ (ppt)
Adjunct Professor James Dalziel
http://www.melcoe.mq.edu.au/res.htm
Implications of COLIS for Implications of COLIS for Course Development: Course Development:
The need for secondary The need for secondary usage meta-datausage meta-data
Presenters: Robyn Philip and James Dalziel
16th ODLAA Conference, Canberra, September 2003
Sustaining Quality Learning Environments