Terminologies in Education Teachers Learners Learning Resources Sarah

Terminologies in Education Teachers, Learners & Learning Resources Sarah Currier CETIS Educational Content SIG Coordinator Centre for Academic Practice, University of Strathclyde JISC Terminologies Workshop, 13 February 2004, London

In e-Learning: § Basic similarities- need for widely agreed subject vocabularies and classification schemes – BUT: § § Dublin Core (DC-Ed) vs. IEEE Learning Object Metadata § § Disparate communities coming together now- needing agreement on approach to vocabularies for metadata elements. IMS Digital Repositories Specification. Developing their own specs for vocabularies now as well: IMS VDEX (Vocabularies Definition (for) Exchange) Educationally specific vocabularies for attributes other than subject/discipline – each with its own difficulties. § § Requirement for more flexible updating, curriculum based vs. “pure” discipline based. (JORUM+ - DDC vs. Learn. Direct) See UK LOM Core, RLLOMAP. Different levels of education requiring different levels of subject vocabulary.

§ Cultural differences: expectation of user (learner and teacher) centred design, utilisation of teachers’ expertise, and increasingly, ideas about learner input § § See Stor Curam Project – utilising card sort/cluster analysis methodology. See Se. SDL vs. RESULTS portal. See DIDET project- teaching students information literacy with shared repository- problems with keyword indexing. In e-learning there a lot of learning resources – from learning objects to courses – require specialised kind of descriptions § § § Different types of storage and delivery – repositories, VLEs, etc. Resistance to acknowledging the level of resourcing and expertise needed around metadata creation in general and vocabularies in particular Not much expertise yet available for metadata creation or terminology management – although they are beginning to recognise the need for specialist input there are very few librarians/knowledge managers/info. scientists around with the right kind of expertise

See: + CETIS Metadata & Digital Repositories SIG – 2 JISCmail lists- one for technical metadata issues, one for cataloguing issues. http: //metadata. cetis. ac. uk/ + Research paper on metadata for elearning & quality- email me or look at above URL. + Stor Curam Repository Project: sarah. currier@strath. ac. uk