creating discoverable learning content using a user-friendly authoring environment

Creating Discoverable Learning Content Usinga User-Friendly Authoring Environment

Ben De MeesterHajar Ghaem Sigarchian, Tom De Nies, Anastasia Dimou,

Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens, Rik Van De Walle

University Ghent – iMinds – Multimedia Lab

Linked Learning meets LinkedUp: Learning and Education with the Web of DataCollocated with ISWC2014

On the menu:

Discoverable Learning Content in EPUB 3…

… and the authoring environment to make that happen

Demo

Discoverable Learning Contentin EPUB 3…

L/CMS

SCORM/…

LOM

Distribution

Package format

Metadata

Current situation

L/CMS

SCORM/…

LOM

Distribution

Package format

Metadata

Current situation

Closed ecosystem

L/CMS

SCORM/…

LOM

THE WEB(including L/CMS)

EPUB 3/EDUPUB

SCHEMA.org/…

(including LOM via LRMI)

Alternative

BUT…

You can’t (practically) create linked content like this:

The user-friendlyAuthoring Environment

to make linked learning content

DEMO

users.ugent.be/~bjdmeest/lile_demo.mp4

Next steps

Exploit EPUB 3/semantic annotations

Auto-discoverability of learning content

User testing the Authoring Environment

Increase capabilities of e-reading for better learning

Our project

Our pilot project partners:

Special thanks to SWSA for support in the form of a travel grant

Link to the paper: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1254/2_meester.pdf