Welcome

EDINA Learning and Teaching Briefing Event

Tuesday 19 November 2002Main Library Building

Committee Room

Programme

• 1.30 Coffee available

• 1.45 Welcome and introductions – Peter Burnhill• 2.00 Overview of EDINA's L&T work – Moira Massey• 2.20 Numeric Data project – Robin Rice• 2.40 Xgrain project and demo – Peigi MacKillop

• 3.00 Coffee break

• 3.20 NLN project and demo – Sarah McConnell• 3.40 Jorum+ project – Moira Massey• 4.00 e-MapScholar project and demo – Moira Massey• 4.20 Q & A session

• 4.45 Close

Why is EDINA involved in L&T?

• Major funding body is Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

• JISC originally funded only by HE; priority originally network provision; then involved in provision of large research datasets, journals, bibliographic services etc.

• EDINA started out supporting research work in HE• Change of government in 1997 placed greater emphasis on

needs of learners• 2 JISC funding calls in 1999 for L&T• JISC funded by FE funding councils from 1999

JISC Vision

• Information Environment (IE) is key aspect of JISC 5-Year Strategy 2001 - 2005

“… to build an on-line information environment providing secure and convenient access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly and educational material”

• Among other things, the IE will support the F/HE community in the submission, sharing and re-purposing of online learning materials

1999

• Request for Proposals– Using Numeric Data in Learning and Teaching

– Geo-data investigation projects (browser and cross-walk)

• Circular 5/99: Developing the DNER for Learning and Teaching– e-MapScholar

– Xgrain

– ZBLSA

– Geo-Data Portal (Go-Geo!)

– Geo-Data Crosswalk

– [ANGEL]

L&T Context

• Excellent content already exists in FHE, but– very difficult for teachers to locate and re-use

– not compliant with interoperability specifications

– many teachers reluctant to re-use entire courses

– but would use nuggets from other people’s work, add own content, re-purpose and re-use

– time constraints to develop from scratch

• Facilities to modify & customise essential, which– support interoperability standards

– provide toolkits that hide unnecessary complexity

– offer support to everyone engaged in the process

Re-usable objects

• Digital/re-usable information assets

– e.g. images, films, maps, pieces of text

– assets in the sense that they have potential for re-use

– have standards-based meta-data e.g. IMS, IEEE LOM

• With addition of specified learning objective(s), become

learning objects – e.g. explanation of a particular concept, assessment object etc.

– assessment objects described using IMS QTI

• Aggregations of learning objects e.g. units of learning, may be put together as content packages

– and described using IMS/EML/SCORM

NLN and Jorum+

• NLN Learning Materials Delivery Project– Scoping study Nov 2001 – March 2002– NLN project March 2002 – July 2003– Likely extension from August 2003 – Likely migration of materials to long term JISC repository

• Jorum+– Scoping study for long-term JISC learning materials repository– X4L Programme call early 2002– EDINA and MIMAS joint bid to Strand B (for development bay)– Asked to combine scoping study and development bay in Jorum+– Jorum+ project October 2002 – July 2005

L&T Contacts

• Close links with several LTSN Subject Centres for project work, and also contacts in others

• LTSN Generic Centre• Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability

Standards (CETIS)• Close contacts in all JISC FE Regional Support Centres• JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service at University of

Northumbria • JISC L&T Portal• BECTa NLN-MDIT