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RELOAD: Reusable E-Learning Object Authoring and Delivery

An X4L Strand B project implementing IMS Learning Design and IMS Simple Sequencing

The degree to which educational content can be reused and re-purposed depends on how it is stored, made available, and delivered to the academic user community. Existing learning technology interoperability standards are designed to ensure the reusability of educational content within different authoring environments, content repositories and delivery platforms such as virtual and managed learning environments (VLEs/MLEs).

Emerging learning technology interoperability specifi cations, in particular IMS Simple Sequencing and IMS Learning Design, provide pedagogical frameworks which enable signifi cantly more effective use of learning resources. These specifi cations are therefore relevant to the basis of the X4L Programme, which focuses on pedagogical outcomes.

RE-LOAD focuses on the development of tools that are based on interoperability specifi cations being developed by IMS, ADL and the OUNL.

The primary strategic aims of this project are:

• To facilitate the creation, sharing and reuse of learning objects and services
• To signifi cantly enhance the range of pedagogical approaches realisable through the use of lesson plans

The aims will be achieved through the production of a suite of software tools, comprehensive user guides and exemplar resources. These components will form an invaluable toolkit allowing colleagues across the FE/HE sector the freedom to quickly and easily create their own specifi cation conformant learning objects from existing resources.

RE-LOAD will:

• build directly on tools and systems delivered by several earlier JISC projects: Pac-Man, PackageIT! and the Colloquia VLE.
• integrate SCORM, a reference framework for instructional content, including the forthcoming version 1.3 which will include the IMS Simple Sequencing Specification
• build on the current developments of the Valkenburg Group on EML (Educational Modeling Language) and the associated IMS Learning Design Specification. The project aims to work collaboratively to provide a broad educational framework for the effective use of content and services.

RE-LOAD is being funded by JISC under the eXchange For Learning (X4L) programme, and is being carried out at Bolton Institute in partnership with the University of Strathclyde.

For more information on RE-LOAD, contact Professor Oleg Liber at Bolton Institute: o.liber@bolton.ac.uk.