Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education

1. co-funded by the European Commission eContentplus programme Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education Panos Bamidis Assist. Prof. Medical Informatics-Medical Education Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece http://www.meducator.net

2. What is mEducator? • A Best Practice Network (BPN) co-funded by the • eContentplus 2008 programme of the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems • Start Date: May 1st , 2009 • Duration: 3 years • Contract Reference: ECP-2008-EDU-418006 • As a BPN, it compares different solutions (2) to draw best practice recommendations

3. 1 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR Coordinator, Technology provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 2 University of Cyprus CY Technology Provider, Content provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 3 Democritus University of Thrace GR Content provider, Technology provider, User/Evaluation, Dissemination 4 MEDTING Medical Exchange Limited IR Content provider, Technology provider, Dissemination 5 Technical Univ. of Cluj-Napoca RO Technology provider, Pedagogical expert 6 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis FR Content provider, User 7 Medical University Plovdiv BG Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User 8 Università degli studi di Catania IT Pedagogical expert, Content provider, User/Evaluation 9 University of Helsinki FI Pedagogical expert, Evaluation 10 St George's Hospital Medical School UK Standardisation Body, Pedagogy Expert, Technology and Content Provider 11 Succubus Interactive FR Content and Technology Provider 12 The Open University UK Technology Provider 13 Coventry University UK Content provider, Technology provider 14 European Cervical Cancer Association FR User/Evaluation mEducator Partners

4. How do people share nowadays • Usually expose individual repositories (instead of allowing distributed searches) • Case of search engines (e.g. Google): • data are restricted to specific kinds of documents (such as HTML, PDF… i.e. do not harvest metadata as such) • Minimal sharing mechanisms… • Minimal interoperability between systems… • Peer collaboration ?

5. mEducator central idea • discover, retrieve, use, rate, re-use and re-purpose educational contentirrespective of any Learning Management System use • providers and users of such content may be • expert instructors (academics / health professionals) • students / learners

6. Ultimate goal… provide mechanisms for content publishing, discovery, & retrieval analyze policies and mechanisms for content evaluation, rating, renewal and repurposing elaborate on intellectual property rights for educational material test the impact of true interoperability, repurposing, enrichment, and embedding of a variety of highly attractive and up-to-date learning resources in each of the partners’ curricula provide recommendations on how to implement interoperable educational content discovery and retrieval networks

7. mEducator “content” refers to any type of educational material with a registered history of creation and evolution • Is linked with • specific educational goals and objectives • learning outcomes • educational contexts/settings • comes recommended with • certain types of teaching methods & strategies • and/or assessment

8. Class Discussion Forums eTrace – Graphics annotation based lessons Personal Blogs

9. Virtual Patients Clinical cases Serious Games Luxembourg, 11 May 2010, mEducator Annual Review

10. What is Repurposing? • Repurposing to different languages • Repurposing to different cultures • Repurposing for different pedagogical approaches • Repurposing for different educational levels • Repurposing for different disciplines or professions • Repurposing to different content types • Repurposing for different technology • Repurposing for people with different abilities • Repurposing to educational content • Changes in the content itself ‘...transforming a learning resource initially created for a specific educational purpose in a specific educational context in order to fit a different new purpose in the same or different educational context’ As defined in deliverable mEducator D3.1 Content Repurposing: Definition of Repurposing Reasons & Procedures

11. Describing Repurposing histories:Metadata schema extensions Luxemburg, 26/02/2009

12. Metadata Scheme Overview mEducator Metadata Scheme Analyse existing standards Relevant fields from existing standards Explore requirements for repurposed content Fields to describe repurposing history Identify additional pedagogical information Fields describing additional pedagogical information Identify any additional critical information Additional fields

13. The competing perspectives (tensions) • End users directly involved in metadata creation….but current metadata standards are difficult to use • Semantic ambiguity / overlapping • Time consuming process • Not all fields are meaningful (from a sharing perspective) • …where is the learning? • Controlled vocabulary/terminology vs. user vocabulary (taxonomies vs folksonomies)

14. mEducator Scheme: Achievements • Proposal of a Tree-based Conceptual Model (Based on LOM/HealthcareLOM) • Representation of the Tree Model in XML • XML Schema, XML Example File • Moved towards a Graph-based Conceptual Model (RDF Model) • Proposal of controlled vocabularies for some metadata elements and linking of them with the RDF Model • Representation of the RDF Model in XML (RDF/XML) • RDF Schema, RDF Example File

16. Content sharing: envisaged solutions

17. mEducator will test 2 different approaches for sharing partner institute 2 partner institute 3 federated architecture partner institute 4 partner institute 1 partner institute 5 • loosely coupled LCMSs • via mashup technologies • federated architecture • semantic web services / open linkedservices

18. Solution 1 Overview

19. Solution 2 overview 19 Current Solution 2 architecture: (1) federated access to eLearning repositories across the Web: integrating existing educational resources from across the Web using Linked Data/Linked Services technologies enabling federated queries for educational resources by end users and 3rd party applications (2) publishing educational resource metadata as Linked Data: following state of the art Linked Data principles (URIs, RDF, SPARQL, interlinked data with established vocabularies such as SNOMED, MESH, GALEN…)

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