Graeme Dobbs TAFE NSW OTEN

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Graeme DobbsTAFE NSWOTEN

• Meta-tagging Pragmatism
• A View from the Field

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OTEN The Open Training and Education
Network

• Organisational Role
• Distance Education for 35,000 enrolled students
• Resource development for gt200 TAFE courses
• Resource development for other parts of NSW DET
• Resource development for commercial clients

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OTEN The Open Training and Education
Network

• Organisational Role
• Library Collection Services

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TAFE NSW OnlineProject

• A business strategy
• A change management initiative

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TAFE NSWOnline

• Projects
• 1 Department Websites
• 2 Network
• 3 Learningware
• 4 PD Support
• 5 System Interfaces
• 6 Online Enrolment
• 7 Marketing TAFE e learning
• 8 Metadata Tagging
• 9 Materials Maintenance
• 10 Access and Equity

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TAFE NSWOnline

• TOL Progress
• Infrastructure development
• Professional development
• Learningware development (7000 curriculum hours,
  260 modules, 80 TAFE courses)
• Delivery from gt50 campus servers
• 11000 students enrolled
• Metadata applied at the module level

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TAFE NSWOnlineOTEN

• Convergent approaches

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All the components of this system need resources
allocated to them
Meta-tagging Pragmatism
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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• the processes we are embedding rely entirely on
  reliable and consistent approaches to the use of
  metadata
• need to commit resources to the creation of
  metadata
• recognise that professional skills are needed

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• metadata creation has both automated and manual
  requirements
• automation cannot provide the value-add needed
  for information categorisation and knowledge
  management

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• Leads to 2 critical questions that need pragmatic
  answers
• What level of granularity is appropriate for the
  application of the meta-tagging ?
• What to do about specifications and standards ?

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• What level of granularity is the best compromise
  between the potential efficiencies and the
  resources required for tagging?
• Course/ Module/ Unit/
• Learning Object/ Digital Asset
• ?

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• the level of granularity has implications for
  all elements of the system

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• definition
• of a
• learning object

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism

• What to do about specifications and standards ?
• Leverage off the work of
• IMS, IEEE, SCORM, EdNA, TLF
• Recognise that adopting
• international and national interoperability
  standards will make the achievement of efficient,
  continuous, scalable, automated systems easier
• (although they are not an end in themselves)

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Meta-tagging Pragmatism
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Meta-tagging PragmatismOutcomes

• Metadata profile based on
• DC, EdNA, IMS, IEEE
• (enabled COLIS linkages)
• Metadata development systems and metadata
  creation are recognised as part of normal
  business
• Central repository of metadata with standardised
  interface for creation and access
• Professional development of TAFE NSW Librarians
  to support a distributed process for resource
  development and the associated metadata creation

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Meta-tagging PragmatismOutcomes

• OTEN
• A case study where we are bringing together all
  the players -
• instructional designers,
• subject matter experts,
• technical developers
• to build a system that fundamentally changes
• what we do

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