Video SCORM

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Video SCORM
International Plugfest II January 16 19, 2006
A Partner of the Academic ADL Co-Lab

• Timothy K. Shih, Professor
• Department of Computer Science and Information
  Engineering
• Tamkang University
• tshih_at_cs.tku.edu.tw
• http//www.mine.tku.edu.tw/chinese/teacher/tshih.h
  tm

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Ubiquitous e-Learning
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Ubiquitous e-Learning Devices
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The Hard SCORM Authoring Tool

• Automatic Generation of Hard SCORM Tags
• Print Hardcopy Textbooks
• Tags Are Recognized by Hyper Pens which is
  Connected to LMS

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Design Issues

• Authoring Hard SCORM Tags
• The Metadata Wizard (New)
• Searching on Repository
• Pre-fetching of Learning Objects (New, for Pocket
  SCORM)
• Automatic Sequencing Testing (Mew)
• Video Presentation and Flash Playback
• Video SCORM (New)

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Presentation Recording

• Select PowerPoint file
• Adjust Camera
• Select Style File
• Start Recording
• Authoring Metadata
• Delivery

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Presentation Editing and Processing

• Add/Delete Slides
• Combine Presentations
• Adding Slides and Flash Objects

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The Metadata Wizard

• Metadata is useful for object reuse
• Time consuming to fill in metadata
• Background of Users
• Need tools to help the user
• A user profile is filled only once
• Interactive questions may or may not be asked by
  the authoring tool
• Deduction rules can be designed by professionals
  and customized to individual needs
• The author makes a final confirmation of metadata

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System Architecture of the Wizard
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Implementation of the Wizard

• Users make a final confirmation to use the
  generated metadata

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Sequencing Testing

• Sequencing Control Modes
• Choice, Choice Exit, Flow, Forward Only
• Problems
• Unreachable Clusters
• Sink Clusters
• Solution
• Automatic Sequencing Testing
• Integrated with the Hard SCORM Authoring Tool

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Activity Tree with Problem
Choice true Choice Exit true Flow
false Forward Only false
Choice true Choice Exit true Flow
false Forward Only false
Choice true Choice Exit true Flow
false Forward Only false
Choice true Choice Exit true Flow
false Forward Only false
Choice true Choice Exit true Flow
false Forward Only false
Unreachable
Sink
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Summary

• Only works for the 4 Basic Control Modes
• Extend for conditions and rollup rules (and
  others)
• Automatic Testing
• When to trigger the testing?
• Convenience User Friendly
• How to fix the bug?
• Proper suggestions by the system
• Metrics of Sequencing and Navigation is an open
  issue

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URL References

• The Authoring Tool is available at
• http//member.mine.tku.edu.tw/www/fatty/MINE/Hard
  20SCORM20Authoring20Tool20v201.0.rar
• http//www.mine.tku.edu.tw/scorm (video demos)
• Need .net framework 1.1
• Automatic installation
• Users manual

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Reading by Using Hyper Pen

• Using Hyper Pen as Input Device
• Reading on Hardcopy Textbooks
• Using Audio Messages for Navigation Control
• Using Multimedia Clips as References

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Reading on PCs

• Integrated with Pocket SCORM Reader
• Consistent Learner Records on PC, PDA, Smart
  Phone, and Hyper Pen

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Reading on PDAs and Smart Phones

• Running on PDAs
• Dopod 700, HP iPAQ 5550, and AnexTEK SP230
• Running on Cellular Phones
• Dopod 565 and Mio8390

Dopod 565
Mio 8390
AnexTEK SP230
Dopod 700
HP iPAQ 5550
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Caching on Mobile Devices

• SCORM LMSs with Mobile Devices
• Pocket PC
• Smart phone
• Limitation of Storage
• Divide a Course into Several Parts (Clusters)
• Preserve the Features of Sequencing
• Caching Strategies
• Download Order
• Replacement Order

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Reference URLs

• Demonstration by Trans Asia Airline
• Pocket SCORM the 2005 Brandon Hall Excellence in
  Learning Awards, Innovative Technology
• http//www.elearn.org.tw/PocketSCORM/
• Other Demonstrations
• http//www.mine.tku.edu.tw/scorm
• Implementing the SCORM Forum

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Plug N Play

• Tuesday, January 17 100PM 600PM
• Wednesday, January 18 1000AM 600PM
• Thursday, January 19 900AM 1100AM

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Interactive Video

• Hyper Video
• Interactive Lecture
• Video Annotation
• Picture
• Text
• WWW
• Interactive Player
• Interactive Video Authoring Tool
• Annotate MPEG-2 User Defined Data

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Video Decomposition
End point
Start point
Sequence start point
Sequence end point
Picture Annotation
Text Annotation

• User Interaction (i.e., hyper jump)
• User Annotation (i.e., picture, text, URL, etc.)

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Interactive Video Authoring Tool
Video Editing Window
Story Board
Editing Functions
Annotation
Video Sequences
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Interactive Video Player
Web Reference
Annotation Tag
Hyper Jump Tag
Video Playback and Hyper Tags
Annotation and Reference
Web Control Panel
Video Control Panel
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Demo of Interactive Video
Video Clip Available at http//www.mine.tku.edu.tw
/SCORM/
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Interactive Video Using Gesture and Remote Control
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The Video SCORM Project

• How about SCORM on TV?
• How about interactivity?
• How about standard?
• The DVB Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)
• Defined by the DVB consortium
• Adopted in many countries
• Italy, Germany, Finland, Singapore, S. Korea,
  Australia and others
• Included in the US OpenCable ACAP standards
• Can we combine MHP with SCORM?

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What is MHP

• A Platform Definition
• A Set of Java APIs
• A Set of HTML Document Type Definitions
• An Extension to Existing Open Standards DVB,
  MPEG, JavaTV
• MHP 1.0.x (1.0.0 1.0.3)
• The original MHP specification plus updates
• The most commonly deployed version of MHP
• MHP 1.1.x
• HTML Support, Stored Applications, Internet
  Client APIs, Smart Card APIs

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The Video SCORM Authoring Tool

• Integrated with the Hard SCORM Authoring Tool

Content Aggregation
Web Tag
Properties
Video Tag
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The Video SCORM Authoring Tool

• A video SCORM component is an SCO
• Divides scenes into video stream files
• Allow users to add metadata and sequence rules
• However, sequence rules among scenes is our
  future work

Scene Actor for video jump Web link
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The Video SCORM Run-time

• Integrated with the Hard SCORM LMS (Web-based)
• Download video SCORM components from server

Video Scene
Web Content
Video Control
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Interactive Digital TV

• Traditional Cable TV
• Interactive TV (Video) interactivity between the
  users and broadcasting program, could be PC-based
• Set-top Box and Digital TV
• Limited computation power
• Limited input device
• Is MHP a solution?

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Running an MHP-based Program

• You must have
• Transport stream and object carousel generator
• A playback system
• Cable or satellite TV channel
• Expensive? Yes
• Alternative resource for research
• Digital TV Simulator

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Browsing Video SCORM on Simulator

• Simulator OSMOSYS SDK 2.1
• MHP 1.1

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General Broadcasting System
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Status

• PC-based
• Video SCORM Authoring Tool
• Video SCORM Run-time Environment
• Integrated with the Hard SCORM LMS
• Set-top Box and Broadcasting System
• Simulator
• Not yet completed

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Reference URLs

• http//www.mine.tku.edu.tw/scorm
• Plug N Play

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Conclusions

• Ubiquitous e-Learning
• SCORM and CORDRA
• Multimedia
• Seeking for collaborations
• Academic Projects
• Free tools for industry

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Acknowledgement
We will like to thank the following people for
their discussion and suggestions

• Judy Brown, Director of Academic ADL Co-Lab
• David Wirth, Deputy Director of Academic ADL
  Co-Lab
• John Toews, Academic ADL Co-Lab
• Doug Hamilton, Academic ADL Co-Lab
• Lichieh Lin, Director of e-Learning Technology
  Center, III, Taiwan
• Andy Tsai, Section Manager of e-Learning
  Technology Center, III, Taiwan

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Demonstration
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Thank You
A Partner of the Academic ADL Co-Lab
E-Learning Team, MINE Lab, Tamkang University

• Timothy K. Shih, Advisor
• Wen-Chih Chang, Ph. D.
• Nigel H. Lin , Ph. D.
• Te-Hua Wang, Ph. D. Candidate
• Hsiau Wen (Freya) Lin, Ph. D. Candidate
• Hsuan-Pu Chang, Ph. D. Student
• Han-Bin Chang, Ph. D. Student
• Shin-Zu Chen , MS Student
• Yun-Long Sie, MS Student
• Mon-Tin Tzou, MS Student
• Linus Jan, MS Student