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Enter the New World of Online Learning with NTER!
1. NTER:
National Training and Education
Resource
An infrastructure for next generation
learning
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2. Current State of Classroom Education
• We don’t do anything like we did 20 years ago, but we
educate our kids the same way we did a century ago
• Lecture format seen as irrelevant for today’s students who
are plugged in everywhere but when they are at school
• Schools in some large cities have only a 50% high school
graduation rate (WH announcement, March, 2010)
• Of all OECD countries, US has the highest non-completion
rate (over 50%) for students who start a tertiary education
program
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3. We know how to train and educate better!
• New Learning Tools make possible:
– Highly interactive environments
– Inquiry-based learning
– Bridge theory to practice (explore, operate equipment without the
consequences of failure)
– Varied and Contrasting examples
– Demonstration
– Access to expertise
– Feedback
– Continuous assessment
– Collaborative environments
– Endlessly patient medium
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4. Current State of Online Education
• Just putting the same material online does not solve the
problem
• Current methods to produce online, immersive education:
– Expensive ($50B per year)
– Little to no interoperability of online resources
– Costly to maintain & update
• Platform wars have prevented updating and improvement of
online resources
• Metadata wars have not been resolved for cataloguing
online resources
• Repository wars have not prevented gross duplication of
materials
• Firewalls in schools, universities and agencies often prevent
access to online resources
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5. Vision
Support the growth of a capable and flexible workforce by providing
quality education and training easily and efficiently through the
advances of information technology and recommendations of
learning science.
• Create a flourishing ecosystem for next generation learning
content
• Develop easy-to-use tools to empower anyone to develop
engaging content
• Integrate with existing online projects and standards to amplify
individual efforts
• Leverage the power of social media to enable collaboration and
improvement of online materials
• Use the flexibility of open source licensing to grow and develop the
platform and tools
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6. Advantages of OPEN Source
• Enhanced Reliability and Quality - open source has been quality
assured by a large team of testers on more technical platforms than
a commercial vendor could afford or consider
• Open Source Communities Find and Fix Bugs More Quickly
• Security Patches are Released More Quickly – often more
secure than classic commercial software
• Benefits of a Community of Practitioners - the benefits of
customers, developers and project team members all working
together in a extensive, large community; and
• The open source model builds open standards and achieves a
high degree of interoperability
• Endorsed by NSA - for ability to deliver security at a lower cost
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7. NTER by the Numbers
Subsystem Function Lines of Code Main Sponsor
Ilias Course Management 1,300,000 DOD/NATO
(LMS)
Liferay Enterprise portal (for displaying and 2,150,000 Cisco
configuring other services)
MySQL Database Management System 1,280,340 Oracle
Jasper Reporting Engine 228,856 Jasper
Apache Web Server Software 248,980 Apache
Apache-httpd More Web Server Software 438,785 Apache
Solr Full text search & navigation 854,662 Apache
Nutch Web-search software 82,181 Apache
Hadoop Support data-intensive distributed 1,343,735 Yahoo! /
applications in the cloud Apache
WebGL (deprecated O3D) Enables browser-based interactive 34,369 Google
content
Total 7,961,908
Leveraged code valued at $600M -- $800M
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8. NTER Products and Services
• Advanced Authoring Tools make it easy, and inexpensive, for
organizations to build, and deliver state-of the art learning experiences and
continuously improve them
• An eLearning Repository with Advanced Search capability – gives
access to thousands of courses that can be used as is, edited or used as
individual searchable content objects to jumpstart course development
• A Learning Management System for collaborative development, delivery
of online & eLearning content
Image from XKCD.com
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9. What does NTER do?
Users
Registry
U.S. Department of Defense
UMass/Dartmouth
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Education
NRCERT
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11. Authoring tool for 3D content creation
• Build 3D simulations without programming
• Runs in browser; no heavy downloads
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12. Performance-based testing
Trading this…. For meaningful, performance-based
assessment
Correctly install the proper type of wall
joint to complete the structure.
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13. Commercialization
4 ways to build a market:
1. Courses
2. Instruction (blended)
3. Content
4. Degrees / certificates
•Icons allow users to identify
permissions
•Presents information about
source
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14. Supports Traditional & Advanced Training Materials
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15. Sample Screen Shot of Available Courses
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17. NTER Summary
• Searchable Virtual eLearning Content Repository – a clearing house
for high interest content with advanced search capability
• Enterprise eLearning Platform – NTER can launch, track record
progress and generally manage eLearning content without licensing costs
• Agency Customer (External) Training - at least 1.3 million external
learners need this service
• Collaboration Tools – Includes, web boards, wikis, blogs, rosters,
calendars, and other collaboration and course management system
capabilities
• Sophisticate 3d Authoring Tools – NTER provides sophisticated
authoring capability, with a library of 3D content SCOs; and
• 508 and more – Tools are provided to help authors create 508 compliant
materials and meet next generation standards for accessibility. Integrated
NCAM media player (support for screen readers and Closed captioning)
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19. Early Adopters/Partners
• DOE’s Energy Technology Programs (Solar, Vehicles, Advanced
Manufacturing,/Industrial Technologies, Federal energy Management
Programs)
• Other DOE Offices: Health, Safety and Security, Office of Electricity.
• National Labs: LBL, NREL, PNNL, INL
• Advanced Manufacturing Initiative: National Association of Manufacturer’s
Manufacturing Institute; Ford’s Partnership for Advanced Studies; MAGMA
(representing the big 3 automakers); Macomb Community College
• The Center for Energy Workforce Development: Troops to Energy Jobs
• A significant number of the winning applicants in the Department of Labor’s
Trade Adjustment Act ($500million solicitation)
• Department of Defense
• 6 Weatherization Centers
• Under consideration by 4 other cabinet level agencies and emergency
response training center
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20. TECH SPECS
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21. Technical Specifications
• Operating System: Linux (Debian or Ubuntu) or Windows
Server
• Nutch: an open source web search engine based on Lucene
Java for the search and index component.
• Solr: an open source enterprise search platform from the
Apache Lucene project
• Shibboleth: federated identity-based authentication and
authorization infrastructure based on SAML
– Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML): an XML-based open
standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data
between security domains, that is, between an identity provider
(a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of
assertions.) SAML uses a SOAP binding within an HTML message.
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22. Tech Specs (cont’d)
• Database Server software: MYSQL or MSSQL
• MYSQL: relational database management system (RDBMS)
that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a
number of databases under General Public License, as well
as under a variety of proprietary agreements.
• MSSQL: a commonly used relational database server,
developed by Microsoft
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23. Tech Specs (cont’d)
• Cloud Services:
• Amazon web services
– Hadoop (software framework that supports data-intensive
distributed applications under a free license)
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24. Development technologies:
• Apache-HTTPD ( web server software)
• Liferay (Liferay Portal is a free and open source enterprise portal
written in Java and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License and under proprietary licenses)
• Java and PHP programming languages
• Jasper Reports: JasperReports is an open source Java reporting tool
that can write to screen, to a printer or into PDF, HTML, Microsoft
Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values and XML files. Used in
Java-enabled applications, including Java EE or Web applications, to
generate dynamic content
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25. API
• RESTful: a style of software architecture for APIs
• SOAP APIs: Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol
specification for exchanging structured information in the
implementation of Web Services in computer networks. It
relies on (XML) for its message format, and Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
(SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.
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26. 3D content development
• Kuda: an advanced JavaScript library and World Editor that enables web
developers to quickly build interactive 3D web solutions. Allows abstraction of
the complexity of 3D behaviors into easy to use building blocks for common
functions, allowing developers to create compelling user experiences by setting
up a complex sequence of events that respond to user input.
• WebGL: a software library that extends the capability of the JavaScript
programming language to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics within any
compatible web browser. WebGL code executes on a computer display card's
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), which must support shader rendering
• three.js: There are several developer libraries for WebGL development, three.js
being another
• HTML5: a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide
Web, and is a core technology of the Internet. An aim of the most recent version
5 has been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while
keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers,
devices, and web browsers.
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27. 3D content development
(cont’d)
• JavaScript: JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting
language, is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-
oriented and functional programming styles.
• 3D modeling / Collada: COLLADA is an open standard
(COLLAborative Design Activity) for establishing an
interchange file format (via XML schema ) for interactive 3D
applications. Allows for exchanging digital assets among
various graphics software applications that might otherwise
store their assets in incompatible file formats.
E-commerce:
• NTER supports an e-commerce system if allowable
• PayPal
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28. Future Development Plans
Currently Planned NTER
Enhancements
Enhanced SSO
Accessibility
eCommerce capability
Ontology Support
Additional LMS Support
Future NTER Enhancements
Enhanced ontology support
Enhanced eCommerce
Rich Authoring
Learning Registry and other
system integration
Intelligent tutor
IP Protection
Additional Content Areas
Improved Mobil Support
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29. So what’s really new?
• Distributed search (end the portal wars:
enables customized control and real
sharing across institutions)
• Deep content search (end the metadata
wars)
• Authoring tools for 3D content creation
(the SME can create rich content)
• 3D simulations in browser (no download)
• Integrates with commercial game
engines (for deeper immersion)
• Integration platform (to address the
fragmented education and training
space)
• Assessments in 3D environments (ties to
the learning management system—
broadens assessment options)
• Portlets (custom tools)
• Skinning (for personalization)
• Social media tools (rate courses to help
improve the content)
• Single sign on
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Editor's Notes
Portal provides information from independent sources of informationEliminates need to login and visit many sitesCustomizableDifferent modules with exportables like blogs, pressroom and image galleries—all bundled.