This document examines the reuse of learning materials from both technical and human perspectives, identifying essential questions surrounding the lifecycle of learning objects. It discusses factors like the roles of individuals, technical requirements, and the significance of usability, motivation, and organizational support in the process. The content highlights the interplay between technology and human concerns in facilitating effective exchange and utilization of educational materials across various contexts.

1. Reuse of learning material: technical and human perspective Allard Strijker

2. Focus of research How can reuse of learning material be supported in terms of technology, and what human issues have to be solved when exchange of material takes place within or between different organizational contexts.

3. Learning material Learning material is referenced from a technological point of view as learning objects A learning object is any entity, digital or non-digital , that may be used for learning, education or training.

4. Learning-object lifecycle Obtaining Labelling Offering Selecting Using Retaining

5. Organizational Contexts Human Perspective Technical Perspective University Military Corporate learning Reuse of learning objects

6. Perspectives Human Who? Why? Technical What? How? Where?

7. Human Perspectives Why? What is the reason for reuse? Why should humans invest time and effort during the different stages of the learning-object lifecycle? Who? Who are involved in the reuse process? What roles can be identified in the different stages of a learning-object lifecycle?

8. Technical Perspectives What? What material is reused? What is the size and type of the reused material? How? How is the material actual reused in terms of tools? What kind of technical support is possible and in place in the different stages of the learning-object lifecycle? Where? Where takes reuse place in terms of systems? What systems are available to support reuse and what services are offered by the systems during the different stages of the learning-object lifecycle?

9. Technical Issues Specifications and standards Granularity Reuse Meta-tagging Access and privileges

10. Human issues Usability Time and effort Pedagogical aspects Organizational payoff Intrinsic motivation Willingness Support services Access and privileges Ownership and copyright

11. TeleTOP Environment

12. Creating Material

13. Creating Metadata for Material content metadata content

14. Material Metadata Creation

15. Material Metadata List

16. Material Metadata Document

17. Resource Management System content metadata content content

18. Selecting Resources

19. XML Exchange metadata

20. Mapping TeleTOP SCORM Course Structure Format Asset Content Course - - - - - - - Roster Document Content Curriculum - - - - - - -

21. SCORM and XML SCORM Title MetadataScheme CourseName Cateloque UniqueIdentifier Language Description KeyWord Keyword Keyword Keyword

22. More Information Strijker@ edte . utwente . nl www. teletop . nl