ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

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Next Generation Systems Requirement

Learning Resource Management

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Environmental Drivers

TechnologySocietyHuman Logic

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Technology Factors

Increased Means of Production

Increased Means of Access

Technology Paradigms DigitisationPeer to peer – NapsterSearch engines

Creating a Management and Delivery Gap

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Societal Factors

‘Always on’ society – ‘crackberry’

Our basis need to communicate plus digitisation is creating ‘personal publishing’ – blogs, wikis, texting, podcasts

‘Timeliness and accuracy’ of content overrides contents ‘quality or merit’

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Human Logic Factors

Anyone under 25yrs age is ‘wired’ differently

Assemblers of information, logic based, multi-tasking

An assertion that print based learning is counter intuitive to neurological thinking patterns

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Impacting on Your Environment

Digital age is really just starting now

We are ‘talking’ digital but ‘walking’ analogue

Still thinking local not global

Understanding your ‘intellectual capital’

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

‘Moon Shot’ Fundamentals

Determining which new services are required of us, and their prioritiesCreating new methodologies and processes for managing a wide array of content from multiple sourcesUnderstanding the concepts of granularity and reusabilityUnderstanding an institution’s role within the global publishing exchangesHow to operate in a multi-exchange environment

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

New Services

‘Super Distribution’Point to multipoint – movie houses doing it now!Tailored assembly capability

SCORM

RELOAD

‘Super Discovery’ – more than Google!Federation across multiple repositories

Content Object Repository Discovery and

Registration/Resolution Architecture Open Knowledge Initiative

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

CORDRA

CORDRA provides federated harvesting of metadata into a central repository where it is searched. The user is 'connected' to the item via a URI – unique identifier.

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

OKI

OKI provides a federated search on the existing metadata at the repository site.

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Interoperability, Federation and Reuse

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Becomes…new learning environment

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Jul 05 Jul 07

Ist wave - LMS•Emergence of turnkey LMS •Packaged course focus•Needs of single institutions•Vendor systems•Varied standards profiles

2nd Wave –Reusable Learning Objects•Emergence of Learning Object Repository•Object ‘publishing’ for course ‘assembly’•Best of breed systems•Standards based

3rd wave – ‘Learner Driven Courses’•Student assembly of course content via ‘playlists’•Institutions as course ‘executive producers’•Very large open source global LOR•Content from a new range of commercial subject matter experts

4th Wave - JIT

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New Income potential…..

2005 2007 2010 2015

LOR Content $

Foreign Students

ResearchLocal Students

Emergence of B2B style Learning Exchanges

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Creating New Issues…

How will I categorise new forms of information– a blog, a podcast?How will I decide if information is important enough to categorise?How will I catalogue volatile materials or materials whose value is extraordinarily high but only for a very short period? How will I store and manage information?

When should it be stored as compound or granular objects?Where will I store information? In an LOR, an LCMS, a library system, a shared open source repository, an EDMS? What do I have in place now?

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

New Issues

Can I access legacy content across internal repositories?How will I make information available for reuse - who can access it? Which version and when? Who helps me decide this? Do I need to consider cross-repository requirements or discovery on a federated basis, and what arrangements are in place for that?How will I ensure the integrity of the information and its use – do I have digital right management tools in place? Can I protect against plagiarism? Is the information being used for its intended purposes? Can I resell it if I own it?How will I ensure preservation of material for current and future audiences?

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

My Current Environment

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Deductions

Teachers do not manage content

‘Closed’ LCMS are an impediment

Need to consider content requirements ‘institutional wide’

Replace terms – ‘content’ for ‘intellectual capital’

Copyright is not just a cost

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Repository Model

The repository model

"Pattern Recognition: The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan“

http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/toc.htm

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Trends

Best of breed - Open source and COTSEmergence of Learning Supply Chain

Mainstream publishers B2B exchanges for learning

Integration of technical content with learning contentLearner driven learningEmergence of business institutes

ETD 2005: Evolution Through Discovery – Sydney

Summary

Think IP not learning contentIntellectual capital institutional wide is your responsibilityThink global not localConsider new methodologies for new timesFocus on an enhanced ‘super discovery’ service as your KPI!