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Interoperability of Lifelong Learning Records
within FE and Beyond

• Ystrad Mynach College Learning Industries
  LimitedUfiteknical.com

24 March 2003
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IL3R

• Objectives/Background
• Results/Outcomes to date
• Project Plan
• Working with Vendors
• Evaluation
• Dissemination

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Interoperation
SME Partnership
YM/(FE)
F2F
PDR v1 PDR v2
teknical (VLE)
LLL Organiser
Learndirect
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Results/Outcomes to date

• Use Cases/Application Profiles
• LIP/Field Mappings
• Accessibility
• Web Site

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Use Cases

• User-centred use cases
• Two-way interoperability

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Use Cases
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Use Cases
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Use Cases
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Use Cases
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LIP/Field Mappings

• Learner Information Packaging v1.0
• Mapping application profiles to LIP
• Using COM object to form DOM object to extract
  LIP compliant XML from SQL server database
• OpenXML to insert data into database

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Accessibility

• Review of current specifications and standards
• Techdis
• W3C
• IMS
• Draft standard for Learning Industries

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Website

• www.learningindustries.com/il3r

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PDR/P Systems

• Learning Industries PDR (v1/v2)
• Learndirect LLL/Organiser
• Lack of Commonality
• Immature Systems
• Need for Extensibility in Specifications

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Commonality
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PDR/P Systems
PDP
Personal
Goals
PDP
PDR
PDP
Activities
Achievements
Planning Data
PDP
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Bigger Picture
Professional
IL3R Project
Education Level
Source/Provider
Public
Private
School
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Modified Objectives

• Shift in Emphasis
• Increased Focus on Learning Activity Data
  Learning Goals (Competencies)
• Reduced Expectations on Migration of Entire
  Record
• Restrict to Manual Import/Export
• Minimises Technical Considerations
• Focus upon Application of IMS

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Consultation
Programme Meeting (Edinburgh) 10/06/03
Programme Meeting (Belfast) 03/09/02
Programme Meeting (Glasgow) 09/12/02
Programme Meeting (Cardiff) 25/03/03
Project Meeting 16/09/02
Project Meeting 02/12/02
Project Meeting 27/01/03
Project Meeting 07/10/02
CETIS (Bangor) 10/03/03
Shell Project (Bristol) 24/09/02
Vendor/Board Meeting 04/02/03
01/01 meeting (Belfast) 18/02/03
JISC Use cases (Bolton) 21/10/02
Accessibility SIG (Salford) 22/10/02
Report to SME partnership 10/01/03
Vendor Meeting (Teknical) 14/10/02
Vendor Meeting (Learn Direct) 14/11/02
Centre for Recording Achievement 21/01/03
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Working with Vendors

• Limited resource commitment
• Reluctance to implement changing IMS
  specifications
• Reluctance to implement in live systems
• Providing anonymised sample data in XML LIP
  compliant format
• Implementation Post Project

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Evaluation

• Develop questionnaire for formative evaluation
• Teknical
• Learn Direct
• Acom SME Partnership