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From Learning Object To Learning Services LORNET
Contribution to GLOBE
Dr Gilbert Paquette LORNET Director Télé-universit
é gpaquett_at_teluq.uquebec.ca
Tokyo, February 14-16, 2007
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LORNET Presentation

• Pan-canadian Applied Research Network
• 6 Universities, 4 Research Chairs, 18 partners
• 5 years, 7.5 M , 120 investigators
• Backround
• 1998-2002 POND, CAREO, CLOE, SNet,CanLOM,
• Explor_at_ RM, Splash, Aloha,
• 2002-2004 eduSource Federated Search
• ECL, ERS
• 2004-2009 LORNET Suite of Tools
• PALOMA ECL-2
• GLOBE partnership

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LORNET Leaders

• Télé-université in Montreal and LICEF-CIRTA is
  host of the network - Dr. Gilbert Paquette,
  Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Engineering of
  Telelearning Systems
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• Simon Fraser University, Dr. Marek Hatala and Dr
  Griff RichardsDirector of Laboratory for
  Ontological Research
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• University of Saskatchewan Dr. Jim Greer and
  Dr. Gordon McCalla, Co-directors of the ARIES
  Laboratory
• University of Waterloo - Dr. Mohamed Kamel,
  Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Intelligent
  Systems and Director of the PAMI laboratory,
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• University of Ottawa - Dr. Nicolas D. Georganas
  and Dr Abed El SaddikCanada Research Chair in
  Information Technology and Director of the
  Discover laboratory,
• École Polytechnique de Montréal - Dr. Samuel
  Pierre, NSERC/Ericsson Industrial Chair in Next
  Generations Mobile Networking Systems and
  Director of the LARIM laboratory,

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LORNET Partners
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LORNET Activities
1st International conference I2LOR-04 Montreal
November 2004 2nd International Conference
I2LOR-05 Vancouver, November 2005 3nd
International Conference I2LOR-06 Montreal,
November 2006
LORNET Web Site www.lornet.org InfoLORNET ExtraL
ORNET

• Webcasts seminars from different locations
• Past seminars are accessible for partnersin
  Video streaming
• Theme workshops in each of the research centers,
  labs or Research Chairs.

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LORNET in GLOBE

• To attain a critical mass of high quality content
  both in French and English
• To help federate the numerous LO repositories in
  Canada that are dispersed
• To make the results of the eduSource and LORNET
  projects more useful
• To share technology and educational advances with
  others to foster innovation in the use of
  learning objects

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Our Priorities

• Tool set for LOR management
• Federating Canadian Repositories with GLOBE
• Quality Assurance Methodology

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A- Tool Set Paloma Web
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A- Tool Set PALOMA Search
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A- Tool Set PALOMA Open Source Integration

• LOM Metatagger (LOMPAD)
• Multiple Repository manager
• Rights manager
• Search engines
• federated, boolean, classification browsing
• Communication API
• LCMS Integration
• Explor_at_, Concept_at_, Moodle, D2L,
• TELOS (LORNETs assembly system)

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B- Federating Canadian Repositories with GLOBE
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Registry to Registry
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FSE Client/ PALOMA Client
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LORNET Registry
SQI Registry
FSE Engine
PALOMA API
Edna
UQAC
POND
ARIADNE
UQTR
UQAM
USask
SFU
SQI Compliant repositories
PALOMA Compliant repositories
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B- Federating New Repositories with GLOBE

• 23 900 ressources being integrated in Quebec
• A network of 10 Quebec universities 6000
• Université de Moncton (NB) 2000
• College level repository Euréka 5 000
• Ministry of Education and GRICS 10 000
• Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS)
  900
• Re-integrate repositories from eduSource network
  and other sources
• Discussion started with CMEC Council of
  Ministers of Education of Canada

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C- Quality Assurance Methodology
A 2 year project with Globe Partners
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C- Quality Assurance
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C- Before Inclusion Identify Quality
Criteria,Instructional Design Quality

• Content Quality
• Goal Alignment
• Feedback and Adaptability
• Motivation
• Visual Design

• Usability
• Accessibility
• Reusability
• Standard conformance

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C- During Inclusion

• Search for Repository Quality not the individual
  quality of the LR.
• The quality of the metadata and of the
  referencing method (procedures and principles)
  applied.
• Ways to favor authors responsability and
  motivation
• Multi-actor expertise for metadata
• Reduce form-filling wizards, automatic or
  semi-automatic computer agents

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C- After Inclusion

• Retrieval quality, maintenance planned at
  inclusion
• Peer reviews, evaluations from actual
  users/reusers.
• Advertise innovative and high quality resources
• Provide recommendations to authors for
  improvements
• Propose search options metadata, classification,
  free text etc.

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LORNET Contribution To GLOBE
www.lornet.org www.licef.teluq.uquebec.ca/gp
Tokyo, February 14-16, 2007