I-LEAR (Interoperability between LEArning Resource formats)

RELEASED: ILear v1.0 (Jun 25, 2008)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:00:41 GMT

Project Description

The goal is to create an universal extensible tool for learning resources conversion that includes an initial set of supported standards with an open architecture that allow to support the integration of new adapters.

Overview

Several standards for representing learning resources are proliferating.
These standards provide fixed data structures and communication protocols for e-learning objects and workflows. This enables interoperability between applications providing uniform communication guidelines that can be used throughout the design, development, and delivery of learning objects.
Consequently learning content portability across different tools is needed by end users for reusing existing material.

Features

ILear is a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution.
It allow users to store original and converted contents in SharePoint document libraries.
It provides an infrastructure to support the translation that facilitates the development and deploy of new translators
It defines the interface of a generic learning package converter
It defines the interface of a generic SCORM package converter
It provides a full implementation of SCORM 1.2 to SCORM 2004 converter
It provides a partial implementation of SCORM 2004 to SCORM 1.2 converter ( only for infrastructure capabilities demonstration )

Distribution

ILear is distributed both as:

Visual Studio 2008 solution with all source code ( for developers )
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution with install/unistall scripts ( for end users)

UPDATED RELEASE: ILear v1.0 (Jun 25, 2008)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:00:41 GMT

Project Description

Overview

Features

ILear is a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution.
It allow users to store original and converted contents in SharePoint document libraries.
It provides an infrastructure to support the translation that facilitates the development and deploy of new translators
It defines the interface of a generic learning package converter
It defines the interface of a generic SCORM package converter
It provides a full implementation of SCORM 1.2 to SCORM 2004 converter
It provides a partial implementation of SCORM 2004 to SCORM 1.2 converter ( only for infrastructure capabilities demonstration )

Distribution

ILear is distributed both as:

Visual Studio 2008 solution with all source code ( for developers )
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution with install/unistall scripts ( for end users)

UPDATED RELEASE: ILear v1.0 (Jun 25, 2008)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:34:53 GMT

Project Description

Overview

Features

ILear is a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution.
It allow users to store original and converted contents in SharePoint document libraries.
It provides an infrastructure to support the translation that facilitates the development and deploy of new translators
It defines the interface of a generic learning package converter
It defines the interface of a generic SCORM package converter
It provides a full implementation of SCORM 1.2 to SCORM 2004 converter
It provides a partial implementation of SCORM 2004 to SCORM 1.2 converter ( only for infrastructure capabilities demonstration )

Distribution

ILear is distributed both as:

Visual Studio 2008 solution with all source code ( for developers )
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution with install/unistall scripts ( for end users)

COMMENTED ISSUE: Orchestrated with Microsoft's Grava

dbaechtel — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:40:17 GMT

Consider this initiative should be orchestrated with the new tool from Microsoft named Grava (https://connect.microsoft.com/Grava), that is designed to allow the education community to create and assemble materials that will increase discovery and allow learners to go at their own pace and learning style.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: dbaechtel **

CREATED ISSUE: Orchestrated with Microsoft's Grava

garlasch — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:33:46 GMT

CREATED ISSUE: Supported formats

garlasch — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:52:49 GMT

5. Consider the course material should easily be repurposed in a variety of formats:

- Moodle SCORM file
- SCORM 1.2 package
- Microsoft LRN IMS format
- Blackboard package file
- WebCT IMS package
- IMS QTI Lite (assessment questions)
- PowerPoint for classroom training
- a set of plain HTML pages ready for web or CD delivery

CREATED ISSUE: Backward compatibility

garlasch — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:49:44 GMT

Consider that is very important that the backward compatibility is supported. So once transformed the learning resource in another format should be possible to return to the original one without loosing any kind of information.

CREATED ISSUE: Web services architecture

garlasch — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:48:01 GMT

Consider implementing a web services architecture that supports resource conversion remotely.

CREATED ISSUE: Authored filters

garlasch — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:46:27 GMT

Consider implementing an architecture whereby the input and output filters can be authored independently of the utility engine itself and added to a deployment dynamically without the need to recompile or update the utility engine itself. For example, you might consider developing an SDK for ‘filters’ that can be saved as XML or compiled as class library and dynamically recognized by the conversion engine as a newly supported format.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:19:53 GMT

Project Description
The goal is to create an universal extensible tool for learning resources conversion that includes an initial set of supported standards with an open architecture that allow to support the integration of new adapters.

Overview
Several standards for representing learning resources are proliferating.
These standards provide fixed data structures and communication protocols for e-learning objects and workflows. This enables interoperability between applications providing uniform communication guidelines that can be used throughout the design, development, and delivery of learning objects.
Consequently learning content portability across different tools is needed by end users for reusing existing material.

Contribution
The project is currently undergoing a requirement specification phase. To this respect, any contribution is welcome.
A complete analysis of the translation problem between formats is made difficult by existing dependencies between formats and the undergoing standardization activities.
Starting from the preliminary analysis of the existing formats, the collection of needs and requirements from end-users and context experts may lead to a clear vision on the translation problem.
Once collected and prioritized the needs and requirements from the community, the work will be focuses on the design and the development of the core components of the extensible translation platforms, enabling the development of custom translators on selected formats.

References

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kit that is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:14:56 GMT

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document “The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit”.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kit that is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:14:39 GMT

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document “The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit”.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kitthat is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:13:56 GMT

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document “The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit”.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kit that is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:10:21 GMT

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document “The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit”.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kit that is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:09:11 GMT

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document “The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit”.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kithttp://www.codeplex.com/SLK that is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:07:35 GMT

Other information concerning the project can be found in the document “The Road to Open: SharePoint Learning Kit”.
An example of learning resources is represented by SharePoint Learning Kit that is an open source project of the CodePlex community.

CREATED ISSUE: Functional considerations

garlasch — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:41:21 GMT

1. Consider supporting the batch conversion of multiple resources (i.e. entire file folder) without user intervention, as well as single resource conversion.

2. Consider implementing an architecture whereby the input and output filters can be authored independently of the utility engine itself and added to a deployment dynamically without the need to recompile or update the utility engine itself. For example, you might consider developing an SDK for ‘filters’ that can be saved as XML or compiled as class library and dynamically recognized by the conversion engine as a newly supported format.

3. Consider implementing a web services architecture (better still WCF) that supports resource conversion remotely.

UPDATED RELEASE: Requirement specification phase (Oct 25, 2007)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:40:36 GMT

The project is currently undergoing a _requirement specification phase_. To this respect, any contribution is welcome.

UPDATED RELEASE: Requirement specification phase (Oct 25, 2007)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:46:18 GMT

The project is currently undergoing a _requirement specification phase_. To this respect, any contribution is welcome.

UPDATED RELEASE: Requirement specification phase (Oct 25, 2007)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:29:30 GMT

The project is currently undergoing a _requirement specification phase_. To this respect, any contribution is welcome.