Overview of the ASPECT Project

ASPECT: A Short Overview
David Massart, EUN
London - Jan. 13, 2010

Disclaimer
The work presented here is partially supported by the European Community eContentplus programme - project ASPECT: Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content (Grant agreement number ECP-2007-EDU-417008).
The author is solely responsible for the content of this presentation. It does not represent the opinion of the European Community and the European Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained therein.

Adopting Standards and Specifications for Educational Content
30-month Best Practice Network (Sept 08-Feb 11)
European Commission eContentplus programme
Aims at
Developing best practice approaches to implementing standards for educational content discovery and use
Improving the adoption of learning technology standards and specifications
Impacting on pre-standardization activities

ASPECT Assumption
Use & Reuse of
Digital Educational Content
=
Added-Value for Schools in Europe

Reusability Requires
Educational content to be:
Reusable: Standards for content use
Discoverable: Standards for content discovery
Best practices to maximize benefits of applying standards to content used in schools
Supporting emerging standards that map to and are influenced by best practices

Metadata
Vocabulary
Protocol
Query Language
Registry
Content discovery
Scope & Structure

Content discovery
Content Packaging
Identifier
Access Control
Content use
Scope & Structure

Content discovery
Best practices
Content use
Scope & Structure

Content discovery
Implementation of best practice
Best practices
Content use
Scope & Structure

Content discovery
School pilots
Implementation of best practice
Best practices
Content use
Scope & Structure

Reusable Content
Simple assets (e.g., text, images, short videos) that can generally be directly rendered in a web browser
More complex resources that usually consist of multiple components (e.g., text, images, simulations, videos, assessment exercises, etc.) that need to be combined in a precise way in order to provide end-users with a meaningful learning experience

Content Packaging
Packaging all the required components in a zip file together with a manifest describing how these components have to be rendered
Packaged content
Is more ‘interoperable’
Can be more easily exchanged and reused in learning platforms that comply with the relevant content packaging specifications

Content Packaging Specifications
Differ by the kinds of interactions they make possible between the content and its users
ADL SCORM: Self-paced training situations where a single learner works independently with no instructor intervention
IMS Common Cartridge (CC): Blended learning situations where traditional teaching is combined with web-based e-learning
Watch the ASPECT videos on SCORM and CC at http://aspect-project.org/node/40

Metadata
Machine-readable descriptions of digital learning content
Provides information necessary to
Create searchable catalogs of learning content
Assess usefulness of learning content
Get access to relevant content

Metadata Application Profiles
Adaptation, constraint, and/or augmentation of a metadata specification to suit the needs of a particular community
The intention being to define a profile of a specific schema for its application to a particular community
E.g., The LRE Metadata Application Profile http://fire.eun.org/LREMAPv4p0.pdf

Managing Metadata:LRE Service Centre (provided by ASPECT)
http://lreservicecentre.aspect-project.org
Metadata Application Profile Registry
Transformer Service
Vocabulary Bank for Education (VBE)
Validation Service
Translation Service
and more …

Metadata Application Profile Registry
Providing consistent documentation of APs will enable vendors to more easily build products and services that span multiple communities with simple configuration settings for localization
The growing number of publicly documented APs will allow subsequent adopting communities to select and reuse elements of existing APs, rather than develop from first principles

Transformer Servicehttp://lrecoretest.eun.org:6080/mtdTransformer/

Vocabulary Bank for Education (VBE)http://aspect.vocman.com/

Validation Servicehttp://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/validationService/validateMetadata.jsp

LRE Metadata Translation Servicehttp://portal.aspect-project.org

ASPECT
Produces best practices for content exchange and (re-)use
Implements tools to support these practices
Validate them with the EUN Learning Resource Exchange (LRE)
For more information, please check:
Our Interim Report (Nov 09): http://aspect-project.org/sites/default/files/docs/ASPECT_D1p3p1.pdf
The ASPECT website: http://aspect-project.org
The LRE website: http://lre.eun.org

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