Content development tools options

Created by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini, last modified by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini 19 Oct 2007, at 03:18 AM

Content development tools options

 This is a discussion of content creation tools for Learning Objects, related to the LORS package.

START POINTS

• (First stage implemented by Galileo, check Content Package)--> XOWiki, as it is a very well maintained tool, and have many of the desired features such as: easy content tool (plus the advantage that a wiki tools is becoming more and more common), directories, versioning, flexible built-in features to handle content more easily (including positioning and segmentation), basic template management, variables, multi-language support.
• LORSM contains support for sequencing arbitraty Xowiki pages. TODO includes allowing export of XOwiki content as plain HTML from LORSM. I think this approach is working very well and is less error prone than the technique used in LORS-Central. Another key feature are the simplified file/image upload widgets which make it easier to add media to an Xowiki page. ALso see the Xowiki::File approach which only works in XOwiki. Either of these might be good to allow linking media into course content (assuming the media is part of a "page") DAVEB
• Another interesting approach would be to provide import/export facilities from xowiki into IMS CP format.
  
• LORS Central built-in editor (for web pages)
• Word 1-click integration to lors-central
• Never try to be a dreamweaver online, that is too sophisticated for our end users, although c/p from dreamweaver or upload from it should be allowed.
• an interesting tool for content creation is eLearning XHTML editor
  
• Others?

TO DO

• Full review of the tools available, possible approaches, etc.
• Build a prototype that gets near to what the short term objectives are.
• Basic review of the lors-central and xowiki: both support well edition, seems that xowiki will do better with template management.

REFERENCES

Check these courses, click on a modulo.

User: usuariosat  Pass: usuariosat 

Community members interests:

• Galileo University
• Valencia University

OBJECTIVES

Short term

• The Content Package (that runs atop of xowiki) already provides this (18/oct/2007 by Galileo):
  
• Provide a simple interface to create web pages, and easily include and manipulate web assets such as flash, videos, images, etc.Provide a set on web templates, easy to manage, like PPT templates.
• Provide collaborative content creation tools while being able to set up roles easily.
• Folder, subfolders, pages ordering.
• Free of "standards" approaches, so professors with basic word knowledge can use it.
• If use of already existing content creation tools is considered, try to keep it as customization rather than a fork (specially for xowiki case)
  
• See above LORSM already works with the standard Xowiki package (no idea if its already commited, where and if its ready for grab and production use?? [roc])
  

Mid term

• Export to SCORM / IMS-CP automatically, almost with zero knowledge of the standards themselves.
• Import/Publish to LORS one click feature.

Long term

• Workflow definition.
  
• Third parties API / resources integration (Flickr, Google, Amazon, YouTube, others)
  

Webinar - Part 3 - Packages and ad_form

Created by Marcin Kuczkowski, last modified by Manish Hasija 06 Jun 2007, at 06:32 AM

Packages and ad_form 

The session covered packages creation and developing them using some of the OACS features. The second part of the session was about using ad_form to easily create and manage web forms.

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Modelling Learners Preferences

Created by Olga C. Santos, last modified by Olga C. Santos 09 May 2007, at 04:57 PM

Modelling Learners Preferences

 Overview

This wiki was started in the Workshop on Experiences on Accessible eLearning Platforms at OpenACS and .LRN Spring Conference, Vienna 2007. More info in the corresponding presentation. 

As pointed out by Daveb, the section has been renamed to Modelling Learnes Preferences, since user preferences are separate from a learning system.

The goal is to build in OpenACS support for learners modelling by gatherig data about learners from different sources:

• Learning Styles (Felder test)
• IMS-QTI questionnaires
• Active (create) and passive (read) interactions

There is a need for the integration with processing mechanisms and specifications representations, such as data mining algorithms (Weka), multi-agent sytems (JADE agents) or RDF management (Sesame toolkit), among others.

Two scenarios:

• Semantic based (specifications)
  
• Usage of the platform services
  

Other ideas:

• Use the same API to produce the layout (SCORM and IMS-LD)

Comments:

• bottom up approach
  

Standards and Specifications:

• IMS-LIP
• CC/PP
• SCORM CMI
• URC
  
• ...
  

Community members showing interest:

• aDeNu Research Group (UNED)
  
• UC3M: can offer the information gathered to the author to provide the learning path
  
• ...
  

TO DO:

• Extend user tracking
• Extend data model
•  
• ...

Goals / Ideas

Created by Caroline Meeks, last modified by Nima Mazloumi 26 Apr 2007, at 05:16 PM

Goals

•  Adoption
• Recognized as a Web 2.0 Leader
• Documentation
• Training/ Learning Curve
• Brand recognition (OpenACS/dotLRN)
• Missing Functionality
• Consolidating Functionality
• Developer Collaboration
  

Ideas & Votes

Notes

What are you working on?

• fix package per page
• create a "twitter" type page where you write what you are doing
• PO Client and Security service
• auto search of forums & wiki

Pimping the websites

• different sections for different persons (developers, users, ...)
• e-learning course on how to work with the toolkit, curriculum integration
  
• 
  

Members

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Consortium Members (2007)

 Representative / Organization

1. Janine Sisk, Furfly LLC *
   
2. Malte Sussdorff, Cognovís GmbH & Co. KG *
   
3. Erik Valevatn, University of Bergen *
   
4. Carl Robert Blesius, Mass General Hospital *
   
5. Caroline Meeks, SolutionGrove *
   
6. Rafael Pastor Vargas, CInDeTec, UNED *
   
7. Cyrano Ruiz, Universidad Galileo 
8. Dario Roig, Universidad de Valencia *
   
9. Alfred Essa, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities *
   
10. Vivian Aguilar, Viaro Networks *
    
11. Gustaf Neumann, Vienna University *
12. Carlos Delgado Kloos, UC3M *
    
13. Tracy Adams, ACSPropel *
14. Giancarlo Luxardo, SII *
15. Mark, pumptheory.com *
16. Gregory Hancock, University of Sydney *
17. Fernando Albuquerque, Tekne Digital *
18. Uiri Sapaio, YABT.
19. Pablo Arozarena, Telefonica I+D, Spain.
20. Rob Ross, Museum of Science Boston
    

* initial request for invoice sent
** invoice sent

 No reply from them yet.

.LRN Zen Project: Packages HTML clean-up

Created by Emmanuelle Raffenne, last modified by Carl Robert Blesius 20 Mar 2007, at 05:25 AM

OpenACS packages

.LRN packages

Documentation Credits

Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Torben Brosten 18 Mar 2007, at 09:38 AM

Documentation Credits

Bibliography: Where did this document come from?

This document is really just plagiarism from a number of documents that came before it. If something is used without proper credit, let us know so we can fix it right away.

The short bibliography:

• OpenACS Documentation Versions 4.6.2 to present were edited by Joel Aufrecht.
• ArsDigita installation guide
• OpenACS 3.x installation guide
• Gilbert Wong's FreeBSD installation guide
• Vinod Kurup's Brief OpenACS4 installation guide
• Joel Aufrecht's OpenACS 4.5 Quick Guide

Known authors and contributors

Acknowledgments for versions of the above documents go (in no particular order) to Bryan Quinn, Adam Farkas, Brian Stein, Doug Hoffman, Ravi Jasuja, Hiro Iwashima, Ryan Lee, Jonathan Goler, Audrey Mcloghlin, Doug Harris, Zvi Boshernitzan, Michael Yoon, Cesar Brea, Dennis Gregorovic, David Fullagar, Chris Spears, Kevin Tupper, Michael Duffy, Simon Carstensen, Dave Bauer, Tracy Adams, Greg Haverkamp, Philip Greenspun, Jin Choi, Sean Yamamoto, David Cohen, Chris Rasch, Richard Li, Jon Griffin, Roberto Mello, Gilbert Wong, Don Baccus, Ben Adida, Michael Cleverly, Janne Blonqvist, Jonathan Ellis, Janine Sisk, Jade Rubick, Chris Hardy, Jonathan Marsden, Vinod Kurup, Charles Hall, Tom Jackson and Karl Lehenbauer.

Others who have contributed to this document: Robert Taylor, Ryan Gallimore, Gustaf Neumann, Torben Brosten, Don Baccus, Roberto Mello, Talli Somekh, Dave Bauer, Jim Lynch, Jon Griffin, Daryl Biberdorf, Bjorn Thor Jonsson, Jade Rubick, Fred Yankowski, Dan Chak, Sebastiano Pilla, Reuven Lerner, Malte Sussdorff, Stan Kaufman, Pascal Scheffers and Rocael Hernández.

Contributers to xowiki documents, including this one: en:contributors 

Finally, much appreciation and thanks goes to the OpenACS community, who have provided much valuable feedback in the fora, which compromises the goals of this documentation.

.LRN Zen Project: Bug Bash Signup

Created by Avni Khatri, last modified by Avni Khatri 16 Mar 2007, at 07:06 AM

.LRN/OpenACS Zen Bug Bash Signup

Please signup for any day you can.
 

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Installing OpenACS on Solaris

Created by OpenACS community, last modified by Torben Brosten 07 Mar 2007, at 05:18 AM

Should you decide to Install OpenACS from source using general en:openacs-system-install instructions, refer to these notes for changes:

See threads:

• Tips or Gotchas for Install on Solaris 10
• Solaris 10 fails to unpack openacs-5-2-*.tar.gz
• Missing tclsh on Solaris [9] - how to fix?