Mega Content Transformation with Open Source Educational Content

Mega Content Transformation with Open Source Educational Content Project e. LML (e. Lesson Markup Language) Andreas Wittke oncampus Lübeck University of Applied Sciences

Mega Content Provider v start in 2001 with zero students and increase up to 1800 until today v online distance education (80% online, 20% face 2 face) v over 2500 continuing education participants v over 18. 000 course enrolments per year v over 250 courses with 70. 000 HTML-pages, 15. 000 illustrations und 13. 000 multimedia elements v over 28. 000 hours of workload Oktober 2008 page 2

oncampus factory v 5 fulltime instructional designer & 3 mediadeveloper v Giuntilabs e. Xact Packager XML Template v developing time 4 years v cost for 1 creditpoint from 40. 000 Euro down to 15. 000 Euro v XHTML and PDF output Oktober 2008 page 3

Oncampus Factory Oktober 2008 page 4

Disadvantages from factory v bad performance v XML library from Microsoft v PDF version was slow and complex v no flexibility v no transparency v license fee Oktober 2008 page 6

Why e. LML v better performance v more and better output formats v open source v nearly the same structure (80%) v oncampus is not a software project Oktober 2008 page 7

Factory Content Oktober 2008 page 8

e. LML Content Oktober 2008 page 9

PDF Version Oktober 2008 page 10

High End Content v academic content v big v complex v expensive Oktober 2008 page 11

High End Content Three Tiers Content Pyramide by Clive Shepherd Oktober 2008 page 12

Question Is e-learning content high end content? Do the customer (learner) want PDF? Oktober 2008 page 13

Danke Lübeck University of Applied Sciences Dipl. -Ing. Andreas Wittke Phone: +49 (0) 451 -300 -5436 E-Mail: wittke@fh-luebeck. de Internet: www. oncampus. de Blog: www. onlinebynature. de Oktober 2008 page 14