Nå begynner de første verktøyene for Learning Design - spesifikasjonen som lar deg gjenbruke læringsopplegg, ikke bare læringsressurser. Først ute er de som opprinnelig sto bak spesifikasjonen, og som klarte å selge den inn tl IMS, nemlig OUNL - Nederlands åpne universitet. Sjekk ut CopperCore project website.
Men som denne notisen fra CENs Learning Technology Standards Observatoryantyder, er CopperCore beregnet på utviklere. Så det er mulig de fleste vil nøye seg med å krysse av at nå ser et ut til snart å lysne for Learning Design.
The OUNL just released the world?s first open source IMS Learning Design Engine - CopperCore.
The OUNL just released the world?s first open source IMS Learning Design Engine - CopperCore. This engine can be used to create your own IMS Learning Design enabled applications.
Alfanet
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The Alfanet project aims to develop new methods and services for active and adaptive learning and is funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. The Alfanet system being developed is based on existing standards and specifications in the field of e-learning. IMS Learning Design is one of the main specifications used by the project. One of the OUNL's contributions is the CopperCore module providing support for this IMS Learning Design specification.
Open Source
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CopperCore is intended for application developers who wish to include support for IMS Learning Design into their own applications. IMS Learning Design is a complex, semantically rich specification, so it is not trivial to provide full support for it. IMS Learning Design specifies a template of a synchronized and personalized workflow through a course. A runtime environment capable of playing LD must use this template to provide a user with an up-to-date view on his or her learning process. So for example when LD specifies a group assignment where all learners need to complete a specific activity before they can proceed to the next activity, the runtime environment should check this constraint and it should synchronize access to the second activity by continuously checking to see if all users did already complete their first activity. All this checking, synchronizing and personalizing is called the business logic of Learning Design, and this is exactly what CopperCore handles for the developer. By implementing this business logic CopperCore hides the developers from these complexities when incorporating the IMS Learning Design specification.
CopperCore has been released as open source under the GNU General Public License, so developers will have easy access to it. This way all developers interested in supporting LD get a jumpstart in including this support into their own applications.
Try it
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CopperCore is written in Java and runs on a J2EE application server. CopperCore exposes only three application programming interfaces (API?s) a developer needs to call in order to include LD support in her own application.