technology enhanced enterprise education 7 th april 2005 the te3 project: a practical example of...

Technology Enhanced Enterprise Education7th April 2005

The TE3 Project: A Practical Example of Sharing Learning Materials

Dr Kelly SmithUniversity of Birmingham

Dr Mike ClementsStaffordshire University

www.te3.bham.ac.uk

http://www.te3.bham.ac.uk/MainPages/index.htm


The TE3 Project

“TE3 funds projects across the twelve consortium members of the

Mercia Institute of Enterprise to integrate technology into the teaching

and learning of enterprise and entrepreneurship.”



Consortium Members

• Aston University• The Open University• The University of Birmingham• The University of Central England in Birmingham• Coventry University• The University of Keele• Staffordshire University• The University of Warwick• The University of Wolverhampton• Harper Adams University College• Newman College• University College Worcester



What is Enterprise Education?




• Invention and innovation• Writing a business plan• Obtaining finance• Marketing• Employing staff• Legal issues• E-commerce• Interprise• Social Enterprise




Tom Byers, Technology Ventures, Stanford– Creativity and opportunity evaluation– Real-time strategy and decision making– Comfort with change and chaos– Teamwork– Evangelism, selling, negotiation and

motivation through influence and persuasion– Oral and written communication– Basics of start-up finance and accounting



What is Technology Enhancement?

• On-line or CD-Rom materials – HTML, Word, PowerPoint, PDF documents – Video or audio clips – Images, graphs and animations– Content packages

• On-line tasks and activities– Synchronous and asynchronous discussion– Quizzes– Weblogs

NOT just lecture slides on the web



Current Study

To investigate ease of transfer of content and quizzes between Blackboard and

WebCT and vice versa



Blackboard to WebCT

• Mike Clements set up content and quiz in TE3 WebCT course directly

• Staffordshire University have disabled IMS export menus and tools for academics within Blackboard

• IT department exported entire course and content package and quiz separately

• Currently unable to import into WebCT Campus Edition 4.1 or WebCT Vista



WebCT to Blackboard

Can export content package from WebCT BUT

“Note also that the learning object export function of Campus Edition 4.1 is aimed at exchanging learning objects between different WebCT versions (Campus and Vista) and different WebCT installations. So it spits out IMS content packages with proprietary extensions that are unlikely to work with IMS compliant content packaging tools from other vendors. The exported packages are not LRN compliant either.”

Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standardshttp://www.cetis.ac.uk/



WebCT to Blackboard

• So far, Staffordshire IT unable to import WebCT or Reload content packages into Blackboard, or WebCT IMS quizzes

• Still investigating…



Reload

• JISC funded initiative

• Allows you to set up resources and organisations to import into other learning platforms

• Produces a content package to IMS specifications

• Package includes content files, associated resources such as images, and a ‘manifest’ document to show how the files and resources are linked together into an ‘organisation’



Reload and VLEs

• Reload packages cannot be easily imported into WebCT CE 4.1 but can be into WebCT Vista as SCORM

• WebCT CE 4.1 content cannot easily be opened within Reload

• But…can alter the manifest document to replace Reload metadata with WebCT CE 4.1 metadata

• Can alter manifest to open Blackboard package within Reload, but, so far, can’t preview or use



Reload and VLEs



Respondus

• Software developed to create quizzes, assessments, and surveys

• Allows you to publish to various VLEs including WebCT

• Allows you to import from an IMS QTI file

• Allows you to save to an IMS QTI file

• Problems with importing from Blackboard XML files



Respondus



Other Issues

• Institutional policy

• Need for institution specific information

• Need to use specific software (e.g. Reload, Respondus, Flash) and use specific technologies(e.g. XHTML, IMS)

• IT or departmental support

• Copyright and IPR



TE3 Solution

• Re-write content taking out institution-specific terms and styles

• Make resources as simple as possible

• Identify potential problems with copyright

• Package using Reload

• Alter IMS manifests as appropriate

• Also provide zip file of all HTML files, images and documents with ordered filenames

• Provide information on context and use of materials at original institution



TE3 Solution



Conclusions

• Sharing materials is not straight forward!

• Support processes need to be considered

• Non-technical issues such as institutional policy, need for institution-specific information, copyright and IPR, can impact on the success of a technical solution



Poll

• Would you wish to use materials developed elsewhere?

• Would you be willing to make your materials available to others



Discussion Questions

1. Do you have any experience of developing or using sharable materials?

2. What are the advantages of sharing materials?

3. What are the barriers to sharing materials?



The TE3 Project: A Practical Example of Sharing Learning Materials

Dr Kelly SmithUniversity of Birmingham

Dr Mike ClementsStaffordshire University

www.te3.bham.ac.uk


technology enhanced enterprise education 7 th april 2005 the te3 project: a practical example of...

Documents

webct butnote

webct vistawebct

ims content packages

content files

webct campus edition

learning of enterprise

different webct installations

enterprise education