AltiLab2004

(2004.07.27: Last week, I spent three days at AltiLab2004 and one day recovering from it. I was thinking this morning that today would be a good time to reflect on what I learned. Fortunately, SteveToub wrote up some excellent notes on alt-i-lab 2004.)

I made a handout for the Scholar's Box Demonstrator.

AltiLab papers: "JISC/CETIS , DEST (Australia), and Industry Canada prepared a number of white papers, state of the art review and case studies for Alt-I-lab 2004"

Notes from the Content section.

There are three days of meetings. I'm glad to be here, to be staying here for two nights instead of schlepping back and forth between Redwood City and Berkeley.

Day 1

General sessions

BradleyWheeler and someone from WebCT were talking about the role played by

Jeff Merriman of MIT is talking about the distinction between architecture and technology, the various roles involved in the learning field. A bit of pushback from the audience:

• Carl Berger was saying that there must be feedback to architects from the builders.

• Dan Rehak mentioned that role of engineers, in addition to architecture and building. He was wondering about the aptness of the entire analogy.

• what about iterative design? A blending of architecture and building -- no hard and fast division.

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of Giunti Interactive Labs Co-Chair IMS Technical Advisory Board

• Narrowcasting

• ambient learning

• "smart tags" in digital repositories

European research efforts

"holistic approach towards ambient learning"
pedagogy, technology, ..., human factors, business models

• MOBilearn Project

• WebKit

• sculpteur project -- would be good to look more closely at this one.

• iEye

• NATACHA

Day 2

I think that the white papers are uploaded to http://members.imsglobal.org/forum/ims/dispatch.cgi/f.altilabtech/folderFrame/100028/0/def/d66d -- you will need to be an IMS member to access them.

Neil McLean

• how to do a "gap analysis"?

Kerry Blinco: DEST

Unfold project:

Supporting the adoption of open eLearning standards for multiple learners and flexible pedagogies

Day 3

I've been in the "Content" track.

The DRM session makes me think, it's either all really complex or it's all much simpler than it appears.

Katherine Kott is talking about NISO metasearch. NISO metasearch wiki

CliffordLynch and NeilMcLean are talking about the ImsCniWhitepaper2003:

• issue of difficulty of exposing library resources in learning management environments really got libraries' attention

• we've seen progress: RLI, ability to integrate information resources is high on the SakaiProject agenda

• still very complicated licensing problems will be surfaced, especially electronic textbooks.

• what other types of library services need to be exposed? (virtual references?)

• passing user knowledge around, profiles, user histories (tough long-term problem), need to bridge all sorts of systems

• repository problem: "shell games" about where problems are....

• massive cultural misunderstanding: how we export learning management stuff into preservation archives; someone is going to have to handle the issue of handling course materials (writ large) -- student data/interactions, etc.

• grid computing communities need to be connected in

• what does the networked library look like?

• need to put more stuff on paper to get discussions going

Robby Robson: resuablelearning.org

• granularity -- base issue

• metadata, rights, interoperability

• learning design

Expert panel

• split communities

• lack of common language

• would be great if we had more "we want to do this in the real world, can we do this?"

• use of scenario-based use cases very powerful

Dept of Ed person:

• great that demonstrators are there -- but most of them come from IMS member institutions; interesting to see whether customers can be the ones demonstrating next year.

CliffordLynch:

• a big question is what is IMS's problem and what is not.

• classes metadata, DRM ("a boogy-man we bring out to scare everyone once in a while....")

• Does IMS want to take on the "course record objects" problem?

R&D

TomCarey:

• "show, do, track"

• the big picture

• progress 04-05

• what people are working on

• changes in the roadmap

• targets for 05-06

• show and track "user wins"

• mind the grap [between 1 and 2]

Tom doesn't see the social infrastructure in place to take advantage of the technology being used.

Dan Rehak (among other things, architect of CORDRA)

• we need cross-industry XML bindings, WSDL...

• core simple data models

• learn how to profile specs

• update to simple sequencing

• draft IEEE content packaging spec

• query spec

• we identifier solution

• service registry (learningservices.org)

• content creation according to specification

• open source lifecycle implementations

• (Defense dept will mandate SCORM)

• a better crossection of people at AltiLab

Dave Meyers

• need to focus on common services

Observations

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