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co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education Panos Bamidis Assist. Prof. Medical Informatics. Medical Education Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece Baltimore, USA, 10 tth. May, 2011 http: //www. meducator. net
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme What is m. Educator? l A Best Practice Network (BPN) co-funded by the – l Start Date: May 1 st , 2009 Duration: 3 years l Contract Reference: ECP-2008 -EDU-418006 l As a BPN, it compares different solutions (2) to draw best practice recommendations l 2 e. Contentplus 2008 programme of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme m. Educator Partners 3 1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology Dissemination 2 University of Cyprus CY Technology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 3 Democritus University of Thrace GR Content provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 4 MEDTING Medical Exchange Limited IR Content provider, Technology provider, Dissemination 5 Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert 6 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User 7 Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User 8 Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation 9 University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation 10 St George's Hospital Medical School UK Standardisation Body, Pedagogy Expert, Technology and Content Provider 11 Succubus Interactive 12 The Open University 13 Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider 14 European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation FR UK provider, Content and Technology Provider Content provider, User/Evaluation,
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme How do people share nowadays l Usually expose individual repositories (instead of allowing distributed searches) l Case of search engines (e. g. Google): – l l l 4 data are restricted to specific kinds of documents (such as HTML, PDF… i. e. do not harvest metadata as such) Minimal sharing mechanisms… Minimal interoperability between systems… Peer collaboration ?
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme m. Educator central idea l discover, retrieve, use, rate, re-use and re-purpose educational content irrespective of any Learning Management System use l providers and users of such content may be – – 5 expert instructors (academics / health professionals) students / learners
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Ultimate goal… 6 l provide mechanisms for content publishing, discovery, & retrieval l analyze policies and mechanisms for content evaluation, rating, renewal and repurposing l elaborate on intellectual property rights for educational material l test the impact of true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula l provide recommendations on how to implement interoperable educational content discovery and retrieval networks
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme m. Educator “content” refers to any type of educational material with a registered history of creation and evolution l Is linked with – – – l comes recommended with – 7 specific educational goals and objectives learning outcomes educational contexts/settings – certain types of teaching methods & strategies and/or assessment
e. Trace – Graphics annotation based lessons Personal Blogs Class Discussion Forums
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme 9 Luxembourg, 11 May 2010, m. Educator Annual Review
What is Repurposing? ‘. . . transforming a learning • Repurposing to different languages resource • Repurposing to different cultures initially created for a specific • Repurposing for different pedagogical approaches • Repurposing for different educational purpose in alevels specific • Repurposing for different disciplines or professions educational context intypes order to fit a • Repurposing to different content • Repurposing for different technology different new purpose in the same • Repurposing for people with different abilities content context’ or • Repurposing differentto educational • Changes in the content itself As defined in deliverable m. Educator D 3. 1 Content Repurposing: Definition of Repurposing Reasons & Procedures 10
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Describing Repurposing histories: Metadata schema extensions 11 Luxemburg, 26/02/2009
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Metadata Scheme Overview m. Educator Metadata Scheme Analyse existing standards Explore requirements for repurposed content 12 Relevant fields from existing standards Fields to describe repurposing history Identify additional pedagogical information Fields describing additional pedagogical information Identify any additional critical information Additional fields
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme The competing perspectives (tensions) l End users directly involved in metadata creation…. but current metadata standards are difficult to use – – l 13 Semantic ambiguity / overlapping Time consuming process Not all fields are meaningful (from a sharing perspective) …where is the learning? Controlled vocabulary/terminology vs. user vocabulary (taxonomies vs folksonomies)
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme m. Educator Scheme: Achievements l Proposal of a Tree-based Conceptual Model (Based on LOM/Healthcare. LOM) l Representation of the Tree Model in XML – XML Schema, XML Example File l Moved towards a Graph-based Conceptual Model (RDF Model) l Proposal of controlled vocabularies for some metadata elements and linking of them with the RDF Model l Representation of the RDF Model in XML (RDF/XML) – RDF Schema, RDF Example File
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co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Content sharing: envisaged solutions 16
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme m. Educator will test 2 different approaches for sharing 1. loosely coupled LCMSs – 2. via mashup technologies federated architecture – partner institute 2 partner institute 3 semantic web services / open linked services federated architecture partner institute 4 17 partner institute 5 partner institute 1
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Solution 1 Overview
co-funded by the European Commission e. Contentplus programme Solution 2 overview Current Solution 2 architecture: (1) federated access to e. Learning repositories across the Web: l integrating existing educational resources from across the Web using Linked Data/Linked Services technologies l enabling federated queries for educational resources by end users and 3 rd party applications (2) publishing educational resource metadata as Linked Data: l following state of the art Linked Data principles (URIs, RDF, SPARQL, interlinked data with established vocabularies such as SNOMED, MESH, GALEN…) 19
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