Learning Object Discovery & Exchange

09:00-09:15 INTRODUCTIONS
                        * Agree agenda
                        * IPR Disclosure

09:15:10:45 LO EXCHANGE INFORMATION MODEL

10:45:11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:30 REGISTRY INFORMATION MODEL

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 SEARCH RESULT FORMAT
                        Experiment results and future work:
                        * LODE context sets
                        * OAI-PMH
                        * SQI

15:00-15:15 Tea

15:15-16:30 SRU/SRW
                        Liaison with the ASPECT project

16:30-16:30 REVIEW
                        * Agree Action Points
                        * Agree Timeline
                        * Agree Meetings/Conf Call Times

17:00 Adjourn

Question & Test Interoperability

09:00-09:15    INTRODUCTIONS:
        * Agree agenda
09:15-10:45    QTI Implementation Presentations and Discussion
10:45-11:00    Break
11:00-12:00    QTI Implementation Presentations and Discussion
12:00-13:00    Lunch
13:00-14:45    PROFILING QTI: CC v1.2.1 to v2.1
14:45-15:15    Break
15:15-16:30    PROFILING QTI:  K12 Profile
16:30-17:00    CONCLUSIONS:
        * Agree actions
        * Agree timetable

Testfest

09:00                Welcome & orientation
09:10                CC demonstration showcase

1. CC player: Warwick Bailey, Icodeon
2. OpenLearn: Joel Greenberg, OU
3. LTI for CC: Chuck Severance, University of Michigan
4. Docbook CP packaging tool: Alberto Gonzalez Tellez, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

11:00                Coffee
11:20                Alliance update
11:40                CC conformance
12:30                Lunch
13:30                QTI v2.1: Andrew Potter, RM
14:00                QTI v2.1: Gary Wills & Jon Hare, University of Southampton
14:30                QTIv2.1: Hélène Giroire & Françoise Le Calvez,
University Pierre et Marie Curie
15:00                QTI 1.2 to 2.1 conversion: Steve Lay, CARET
15:10                Coffee
15:30                Learning Design: Gilbert Paquette, TELUQ
16:10                Learning Design: Dai Griffiths, University of Bolton
16:40                Feedback & conclusions
17:00                Adjourn

Demonstration showcase – open projector for people to demonstrate new implementations of IMS specifications. If you have a tool/product that you like to feature in the Testfest, please contact:
Kevin Riley       kriley@imsglobal.org
                        +44 114 221 6662

ePortfolio

13:00 - 13:30 ePortfolio Review of Priorities and Way Forward - Darren Cambridge
13:30 - 16:30 Demonstrations and Presentations (TBD)

Peter Rees Jones - Lifelong Learning
Luk Vervenne - Synergetics nv

The Next Generation of Learning and Educational Technology Standards
An Overview of the Work of the IMS Global Learning Consortium
Agenda:

Today’s Global Education and Learning Challenges
Ramifications for Standards & Standards Organizations/Activities
--- Learning tech research & market adoption realities
--- Development & release cycles
--- Support, tools, application profiles and communities
--- Ongoing maintenance and evolution
Digital Learning Services Standards: The Next Generation from IMS GLC
--- Organized and distributed digital learning content (Common Cartridge - CC)
--- Applications and systems (Learning Tools Interoperability - LTI)
--- Learner information (Learning Information Services – LIS)
Adoption Practice Standards: Achieving Mainstream Market Participation
Questions & Answers

Learning Impact Award Regional Showcase

Common Cartridge K12

Common Cartridge for Health

13:00-13:30     Introductions
                Aims & Objectives of the Meeting

13:30-14:00     Healthcare Needs in Online Teaching & Learning

14:00-14:30     Common Cartridge Overview

14:30-15:00     Using Virtual Patients
                * Authoring and using VPs
                * Medbiquitous VP Specification

15:00-15:15     Tea

15:15-16:30     Technology Requirements
                * Content packaging
                * Metadata (HEAL, etc.)
                * Assessment
                * Run-time interactions
       

16:30-17:00     Agree Way Forward

17:00           Adjourn

Summit on Interoperability Now and Next

Welcome and Keynotes
Rob Abel, CEO IMS GLC
Bill Olivier, Development Director for Systems and Technology, JISC TBC

Interoperability for Teaching and Learning Activities – Learning Design

(tag: ims-sept08-ld)

Specifications and standards for eLearning content have matured over recent years: IMS Content Packaging has seen adoption for SCORM®, formed the foundation of IMS Common Cartridge and been supported by the Common Cartridge Alliance, and is now being submitted to the International Standards Organisation. IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) has also matured into version 2.1 and is seeing an period of enhanced interest.

IMS Learning Design (LD), on the other hand, has been less widely engaged with but it offers a vital and widely demanded component for effective technology enhanced learning: a model and interoperability specification for learning activity coordination. This session will demonstrate recent developments and put forward some ideas for how to advance Learning Design based on experiences in applying it to date.

Learning Design

1. LD in brief, an elevator pitch on the origins and scope of application of LD and a reflection on where we are today, Dai Griffiths (University of Bolton)
2. Demonstrations of new-generation design and delivery software, featuring:
• ReCourse Learning Design Editor, Dai Griffiths, University of Bolton
• Learning Design meets Widgets, Paul Sharples, University of Bolton
• Prolix LD Tools, Fabrizio Giorgini (Giunti Labs)
3. Learning Design, what next? Brief position statements/presentations from panel on their views followed by audience questions and discussion. Panel: Bill Olivier (JISC), Patrick McAndrew (OUUK), Gilbert Paquette (Télé-université), Dai Griffiths (University of Bolton). Chair: Oleg Liber (JISC CETIS)

Practical Approaches to Interoperability?

(tag: ims-sept08-practical)

Since the birth of XML 10 years ago, it has been the foundation of quite a diversity of approaches to interoperability. This session will take a look at some topics that may challenge conventional practice (or wisdom maybe) or test the way we think about designing for interoperability and ask the question: “how should we do things in the future?”  

Part 1: Bootstrapping interoperability with simple web specs

1. Feeds-based provision of resources, a case study in medical education. David Davies, Warwick Medical School and IVIMEDS.
2. SWORD, a case study in application profiling Atom Publishing Protocol for repository deposit combined, Sarah Currier, Intrallect
3. SWORD, Feedforward and IntraLibrary, an integrated demonstration. Sarah Currier, Intrallect and Scott Wilson, University of Bolton
4. How far can we go with this approach? Panel, audience discussion and Q&A based on the visions of the future expressed by the session speakers. Chair: Adam Cooper, JISC CETIS

Part 2: Practical SOA and the eFramework

1. The International eFramework, an elevator pitch, Ian Dolphin, JISC
2. TILE, understanding “Library 2.0” in the light of the eFramework, Phil Nichols, PsyDev, Ltd.
3. Question and Test Item Banking – Perspectives on QTI and Web Services, Steve Lay, University of Cambridge
4. The TETRA Collaboration, practical SOA for a sustainable OSS platform for HE, John Norman, University of Cambridge

Is Higher and Further Education Fit for SOA: is SOA fit for HE/FE?

(tag: ims-sept08-soa)

An entire industry sector has emerged around promoting and supporting a Service Oriented Architecture based on the WS* stack but we need to ask some questions about where we are and where we are going. Should higher and further education be gearing up to adopt SOA? Are we ready now? Are there alternatives? Would it be better to think of service orientation as a more technology-neutral approach: a paradigm? How should we develop specifications in the light of answers to these questions and what other initiatives are needed such that higher and further education institutions can realise the benefits of service orientation or should we direct attention elsewhere and declare the proposed benefits to be merely an illusion?

Panel Discussion

Panel:

• Ian Dolphin, JISC
• John Townsend, Liverpool John Moores University
• Dan Rehak, Learning Systems Architecture Lab
• Ronald Ham, SURF Foundation

Chair: Mark Stiles, Staffordshire University