1. Interoperability in Action
Presented By:
Steve Rogers and Mark Power

2. Steve Rogers – Technical Officer EDINA NLN Materials Delivery Project
Speakers
Steve Rogers – Technical Officer EDINA
NLN Materials Delivery Project
JORUM
Mark Power
CETIS X4L Support Officer

3. Session Details 1 Introductions Overview presentation
Demonstration mins
4 Summary
5 Questions & Discussion
10 mins
10 mins

4. X4L Programme
“X4L is a current JISC programme, which is exploring the re-purposing of JISC-funded content, suitable for use in learning.”
Strand A - 22 Content Production Projects
Strand B - Tools Development
JORUM – Repository Research & Development
RELOAD – Packaging & Learning Design, available now free & open source
TOIA – question and assessment application, soon to be released to UK FE & HE communities

5. X4L & Interoperability
“Interoperability - the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged..”
users are not locked into proprietary systems
transportable between different systems
production of conformant reusable LOs that are re-purposable
accessible to a range of tools and LMS

6. Why interoperability? - Scenarios
1 - lecturer finds content that another has put into a repository
- exports that content and runs it from a VLE
2 - resource team finds content that a lecturer has put into a repository
- resource team re-purposes that content
- resource team exports that content and runs it from a VLE

7. Interoperability and the JISC IE
Athens
IESR
shared services
Local/national repositories,
institutional repositories, HLSI, MERLOT etc.
JISC
LO repository
LO import export
IMS CP
LO import/
creation
Search/harvest
NLN repository
OAI
Z39.50
RSS
provision layer
LT portal
portlets
NLN portal
Packager/editor
Tool e.g. Reload
VLEs, authoring tools, TOIA
Presentation layer

8. Interoperability and X4L
Repository 1
(e.g. intraLibrary)
IMS CP Export
Repository 2
(e.g. Xtensis)
LO import export
IMS CP
Search/Retrieve
LO import/
creation
provision layer
Search interface
Packager/editor
Tool e.g. Reload
Presentation layer
VLE 1 VLE 2
VLEs, authoring tools, TOIA

9. The main specifications of interest are:
IEEE LOM (learning object metadata)
IMS Content Packaging
IMS QTI (question & test interoperability)
ADL SCORM (sharable content object reference model)

10. What are the aims of the demonstration?
Demonstration Aims
What are the aims of the demonstration?
Show that we can transport packages between systems
Can make packages available to users through a variety of players
Show how conformance facilitates re-purposing of content
Identify areas requiring further progress, such as qti

11. What is being demonstrated ?
Demonstration
What is being demonstrated ?
search and retrieve content from JORUM
export and open in RELOAD
re-purpose in RELOAD
search and retrieve questions from TOIA
aggregate with content using 3rd party player and RELOAD
import into VLEs (Olympus & WebCT)

12. delete unwanted content
Demonstration
search and retrieve
from TOIA
search and retrieve
from JORUM
‘Logic Questions’
‘Combination Logic’
Create new question
Export
‘Combination Logic’
Export
‘3 Logic qti questions’
Import
into RELOAD
delete unwanted content
Aggregate
New Content
Aggregate
‘3 Logic qti questions’
Export from RELOAD
Import into VLEs

13. Demonstration

14. Summary What have we been able to show?
can exchange objects between repository systems
can export objects from repositories and re-purpose in other tools
can import qti assessments into existing content, but currently with some intervention
Can transport this re-purposed content to a number of VLEs

15. weblinks
JORUM
RELOAD
TOIA
X4L ‘One Year On’ Website
Canvas Learning Player
Xtensis eLearning Ltd
Intrallect