Learning Design Summit, Wednesday November 8th, 2006, Heerlen - Open University Netherlands
The Learning Design Summit will discuss and explore the latest uses of IMS Learning Design Specification. Presentations of products and programs currently using Learning Design will be given as well as an panel session where industry leaders in Learning Design will share their thoughts on the current state of the art and where LD is headed. Join us for a riveting day long event!

Agenda

9:00-10:00	Registration, Coffee and Cake
10:00-10:10	Welcome by Rob Abel and Rob Koper
10:10-10:20	Overview of IMS by Rob Abel
10:30-10:50	Overview of OUNL/ LD Work by Rob Koper
10:50-11:30	Demonstration: formative assessment with IMS LD and QTIColin Tattersall, Daniel Burgos, Hubert Vogten
11:30-12:15	Dai Griffiths, Bolton University, UK IMS-LD, Progress and prospects IMS LD is a key specification for the future of eLearning. Not only does it provide important functionality for the implementation of eLearning systems, it has also become a focus for significant discussion on the implications of the use of eLearning interoperability specifications in education. The role of IMS LD in the UK is situated in the context of JISC programmes, and related to initiatives being carried out with European funding. A survey is provided of work currently underway together with a personal view on the prospects for the future. Dai Griffiths is the Reader in eLearning at CETIS, The University of Bolton. He has a professional background in education, and has taught at every level from primary to university, in private, public and corporate sectors. This included work as a Personal Development Consultant with IBM UK, and as Head of English and Lecturer in Human Resources at CEFEM business school, University of the Balearic Islands. For the past fifteen years he has concentrated on the field of educational computing as a software developer, localisation consultant, teacher and academic. From 1999 – 2006 he was a researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he coordinated the authoring and implementation of a number of European funded research projects including SCOPE (eContent, produced IMS-QTI editing tools), UNFOLD (IST Programme, coordinated and promoted adoption of IMS-LD), and OpenDock (Leondardo, creating a demonstrator for use of IMS-LD in vocational education). A major theme in these and other projects was the use of eLearning interoperability specifications, and he has published extensively on this topic in journal papers, conference communications and book chapters (see http://www.iua.upf.es/~dgriffit/)
12:15-13:45	Lunch & Demos at the Open Market
13:45-14:30	Jean-Philippe Pernin, Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique, Lyon, France Learning Design: the "French touch" Over the last few years, the cultural or social characteristics of the French educational system have led researchers in different scientific fields to address the question of Learning Design. The aims of this presentation are (1) to present the main questions addressed by the French community around the concept of learning scenarios, (2) to describe existing solutions (models, projects, implementations) and (3) to link these works to current IMS Learning Design challenges. We focus on the following points: Applying learning design in academic current contexts Modelling collaborative activities Importance of didactic and adaptive features Authoring approaches to support teachers in designing and exploiting learning scenarios Model driven engineering applied to learning design Jean-Philippe Pernin is a researcher at the Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique (Lyon, France). Associated to CLIPS-IMAG laboratory, he is co-director of the e-Praxis Technological Research Team in Education, dedicated to the integration of computers in the daily practice of teachers and trainers and focusing on activity modelling in educational software, learning objects and learning scenarios.
14:30-15:15	Sue Bennett, University of Wollongong, Australia Learning designs: Creating strategies and tools to support university teaching University teachers must design learning experiences that engage a diverse range of students in ways that promote effective learning. Increasingly, this involves designing for online learning to complement or replace face-to-face classes, requiring teachers to make appropriate choices about how to integrate tasks and facilitate interactions that are mediated by technology. Online teachers need practical, relevant support to help them apply their disciplinary and teaching expertise to design for this new environment. This presentation will discuss the need for innovative strategies and tools, embedded within the online environment, to support teachers’ design processes and enable them to adapt proven learning designs to their particular teaching situations. Sue Bennett is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Interactive Learning Environments. She teaches within the Information Technology in Education and Training program and is the coordinator of international initiatives within this area. Sue has extensive experience in the design, development and evaluation of multimedia and online instructional materials developed for both university and commercial clients. Her ICT in education research has particular foci on case-based learning strategies and the integration of learning objects within learning designs by K-12 and tertiary teachers.
15:15-15:45	Panel: Dai Griffiths, Jean-Philippe Pernin, Sue Bennett, Colin Tattersall, Daniel Burgos
15:45-16:00	Wrap up by Rob Abel
16:00-17:00	Demos at the Open Market together with Reception sponsored by TENCompetence

• Implementation of the IMS Learning Design in .LRN- Jose Pablo Escobedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (E-LANE project)
  We are currently working on supporting the IMS LD standard in the .LRN platform. In the demo we will show:
  
  • Parser for the levels A, B and C.
  • Player for the levels A, B and C.
  • Integration of .LRN services with the specification.
    • .LRN Forums, for the asynchronous conferences.
    • .LRN Assessment, for the resources of type IMS QTI (v1).
    • .LRN LORS, for the resources of type IMS CP.
    • .LRN Mail, for the notifications and send-mail services.
  • Slides about our current and future work.

• CoSMoS: a tree-form based IMS Learning Design editor- Yongwu Miao, The Open University of the Netherlands
  CoSMoS is a tree-form based IMS Learning Design editor. The Main features are:
  
  • a user-friendly UI for viewing and editing conditions;
  • facilitating intuitive creation/deletion of elements and references by using drag&drop;
  • checking the definition of a node automatically or on demand, and using different colours to show different edit state (created, defined, and validated) of the node;
  • capturing the edit history (a sequence of edited nodes based on the last visit time) and supporting for navigation through the sequence: an easy way to find a node edited or viewed recently;
  • Enabling to view and edit XML representation of the definition of a node and document files (text-based level).

• Reload the SLeD: a practioners’ perspective on authoring and running IMS LD in UK HE- Mark Barrett-Baxendale,Paul Hazlewood and Amanda Oddie, Liverpool Hope University, UK
  Liverpool Hope University is amongst the first institutions to use the IMS LD specification and compliant tools (Reload/Coppercore/SLeD) in real learning and teaching situations. We are currently funded under the UK JISC Design for Learning Programme to evaluate the use of Reload with practitioners, and work with the Reload team to develop a user interface based on this. We are also partners with the UK OU and OUNL to improve the Coppercore/SLeD IMS LD systems for use in live situations.
  The demonstration will cover the use of IMS LD from the teaching practitioners’ viewpoint from authoring a unit of learning using Reload to setting up and administering runs with live students using Coppercore/SLeD.

• Reload LD editor- Dai Griffiths, Bolton University, UK
  The Reload family of editors continues to be developed. The Eclipse platform used in the Reload Learning Design editor is now becoming the standard platform for all Reload editors. Work is underway to link the Reload Learning Design editor to repositories, and to provide a graphical interface. Work in progress on these developments will be presented and shown.

• OpenDocument.net, a distributed repository- Raymond Elferink, RayCom, The Netherlands
  OpenDocument.net is an Open Source lightweight distributed file repository system. It works as a network of equivalent nodes, each of which is a full featured repository. Metadata is replicated across the network so that a search in a single node can produce results from every node in the network. The system is designed with ease of installation and low maintenance in mind, so that it can be easily installed by smaller institutions and individuals, allowing them to store their content in a central location, as well as publishing it to the world.

  A single repository can be installed on any LAMP based webserver, even on shared webspace. Each node is in charge of its own content and will only store its own files. Each node has its own database containing metadata of all the objects in the network.

  To stimulate sharing and reuse of content OpenDocument.net supports Creative Commons Licensing (creativecommons.org).

  To stimulate reuse and repurposing of content OpenDocument.net supports IMS Learning Design (IMS-LD). This means that the system provides access to the metadata and resources within IMS-LD Units of Learning (UoL). Because of the modulare structure of the software, similar access can easily be added for SCORM and OpenOffice.org documents and for other open metadata formats like RDF, EXIF and IPTC. To enrich metadata OpenDocument.net allows users to add comments and tags to objects. The system works as a distributed webservice that can be used by making API calls over XML-RPC. The OpenDocument.net distribution includes a basic web-based interface, but any application that can make the appropriate API calls can be used as an interface. The first single-node release of OpenDocument.net has been scheduled for October 2006. The distribution layer has been scheduled for release in December 2006.

• Learning Design Language and Learning Design Infrastructure- Laurence Vignollet, Université de Savoie, France
  LDL (Learning Design Language) is an EML (Educational Modeling Language) proposed by the Scenario Team of SysCom Laboratory (Université de Savoie, France), in collaboration with Pentila Corporation (www.pentila.com) and the Arcade team of LIG Laboratory (Universités de Grenoble, France). LDL is particularly well adapted to collaborative activities modeling. LDI (Learning Design Infrastructure) is the associated infrastructure for the implementation and execution of the learning activities. A demo of LDI and its associated player will be done on a widespread collaborative activity modeled in LDL.

• <e-LD>: Graphical Authoring of IMS Learning Design -Pablo Moreno-Ger, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
  IMS LD provides a platform-independent notational convention to allow sharing and re-use of e-learning designs. In spite of the existence of several IMS LD players, IMS LD adoption is still being hindered by the lack of user-friendly tools that simplify the creation of learning designs and, even more important, by the difficulties in understanding previous designs created by others due to the complexity of its XML notation. Our aim is to ease the instructor task in the creation and understanding of learning designs by providing a graphical notation based on the ideas behind the Unified Modelling Language, a widely accepted graphical notation for diverse engineering concepts. (Authors of the work: Ivan Martínez-Ortiz, Pablo Moreno-Ger, Jose Luis Sierra-Rodríguez, Baltasar Fernández-Manjón)

• The CopperCore IMS LD Engine - Hubert Vogten, The Open University of the Netherlands
  CopperCore is a J2EE runtime engine for IMS Learning Design which can be used to incorporate IMS Learning Design in your own application: • full support for IMS Learning Design levels A, B and C • 3 APIs for publication, administration and delivery of IMS Learning Design • exposes J2EE, native Java and SOAP interfaces • provides a validation library • includes a command line interface to most of the API calls • includes an example of a publication interface • includes an example of a web delivery interface • platform independent • has built-in support for three relational databases (MS SQL Server/MSDE, PostgreSQL and HSQLDB) • is ready for use with JBoss 3.2.x application server, but runs on other application servers as well • licensed under the GNU GPL