Applications

The Open ICOPER Content Space (OICS) is a repository capable of storing both educational learning resources and metadata records, with sophisticated services for publication, enrichment, search and retrieval. It serves as a testbed for the data models, processes and services that have been defined by ICOPER's work packages and that make up the ICOPER Reference Model(IRM).

The eLearning .LRN platform (Learn@WU) aims at supporting WU Vienna in its effort to better align learning opportunity (course) delivery with what has been promised in the curriculum. This application makes it possible for instructors to re-use learning outcomes from a curriculum-specific pool, described using the ICOPER Learning Outcome Definitions (LOD) schema, and to assign those learning outcomes to a learning opportunity. In case instructors do not find relevant learning outcomes to their learning opportunities in the OICS learning outcome repository, they can create additional learning outcomes for each learning opportunity. The possible types of learning outcomes were aligned with the current WU internal notation.

In order to give potential learners access to information on a learning opportunity that enables them to achieve specific learning outcomes, metadata about learning opportunities and their intended learning outcomes should be published. Knowledge Markets (KM) implemented an application on top of its 2know2.com platform that allows learning opportunity designers to announce learning opportunities that are linked to learning outcomes, learning designs, assessment and teaching methods.

OpenGLM is a cross-platform Java application based on PROLIX GLM, which is based on RELOAD and Eclipse. Learning outcomes are linked to learning design during design time of a learning opportunity by an instructional designer who creates a new, or updates an existing, learning design (LD) for the program. Using an authoring tool like OpenGLM, the instructional designer retrieves the relevant learning outcomes mentioned in the curriculum from the LOD repository, via a search module implemented in OpenGLM instructional design editor.

This module enables teachers to find relevant learning designs based on their intended learning outcomes; in addition to other attached metadata properties like title and description or subject. Learning designs can then be imported into an existing course or to a new course in Moodle. The Learning design will be stored as a Moodle Resource. After successful finish of learning opportunity by students, the module also provides functionality to export achieved learning outcomes to users Personal Achieved Learning Outcomes (PALO) profiles at OICS.

iPolio is based on Elgg e-portfolio open source social networking environment (http://elgg.org/). A teacher or learning opportunity designer can create a new learning opportunity from existing learning designs stored in OICS. Teachers search for a relevant learning design then make changes to the information of the learning design in order to adapt it to the new group of learners. This includes changes to teaching method, context or learning outcomes of the learning design. The implemented outcome based search extension to Elgg social platform enable teachers to search and filter learning designs based on metadata of their intended learning outcomes. If the learning design is suitable, a teacher import it to a new or existing learning opportunity. This application also enables exporting Learners Achieved Learning Outcomes to PALO repository at the OICS. Recommendation functionality of relevant learning designs based on intended/achieved learning outcomes is also implemented in Elgg system.

This application takes care of the publication of the evidence of achieved learning outcomes into a learner achieved learning outcome (PALO) profile on the OICS. After the completion of the learning opportunity, and therefore the assessment activities, the teacher is provided with a list of the students of the learning opportunity and the assessment result (grade) of each assessment activity carried out in the learning opportunity. There is also a final grade automatically calculated as the arithmetic mean of all the results,which the teacher can modify it taking into account other factors. The teacher can also provide some textual feedback for any student's final grade.

CLIX ICOPER is a web application based on the CLIX LMS, i.e. on the PROLIX version of CLIX named LPEP (Learning Process Execution Platform). To use OICS related features, CLIX ICOPER user has to specify his OICS-profile credentials in his CLIX-account. The same counts for third party environments such as iGoogle, LinkedIn, etc. In this application, a learner work through a learning outcome-oriented learning design (e.g. Master learning opportunity "Organizational Management") which contains learning content (e.g. Power Point slides) as well as Learning Tools (e.g. audio/video conference) and intended learning outcomes. The successful completion of such outcome oriented learning opportunity means that a learner has achieved a particular learning outcome(s), e.g. "apply organizational theories to entrepreneurial issues". The achieved learning outcomes are exported to PALO repository at OICS.

learn eXact Enterprise is a Learning Content Management System (LCMS), developed by eXact learning solutions (formerly Giunti Labs). This ICOPER application extends the basic LCMS via adding support for IMS LD compliant learning design and management of related learning outcomes. This application is connected to the OICS repositories and able to search and retrieve contents directly from it using proper services. Information (metadata) about contents is retrieved as well.

Via this widget, Moodle LMS can recommend learners with learning designs which address the same learning outcomes as the ones attached to the learning design currently followed by the learner. In this way, learners can have access to additional resources.

After the learning design is successfully imported into Moodle, several benefits of data collected in PALO profiles of learners can be exploited. The system can keep a PALO profile of intended learning outcomes of learning designs that are, or have been, taught by a particular teacher registered to Moolde. Based on such data, Moodle can recommend other teachers who have similar profiles of taught learning outcomes. This enables teachers to create practitioner communities around the learning outcomes they teach simply based on the intended learning outcomes linked to learning opportunities where they have a teacher role in Moodle.

This widget allows the user to view his/hers learning outcomes. Teachers will be able to see learning outcomes of courses they are teaching (or have taught). Learners will be able to see learning outcomes of courses they have finished. If users do not have an account at OICS, they can register through the widget.

In order to increase the employability of learners, they would need to share and import their achieved learning outcome profiles into recruitment and social applications. This requires representing the data about these achievements and related evidence data into an interoperable and widely used format. For this purpose, an Atom XML binding of the PALO schema was defined. This binding is used to publish PALO profiles to third party applications like Facebook and iGoogle. Facebook application views PALO Atom feeds of learners outcomes. The application retrieves the user public PALO profile and displays it in an application in Facebook. Thanks to use of the Atom syndication format of PALO, a PALO instance of a learner can be also viewed into igoogle application.

The learning outcome orientation changes the way learning contents are produced and organized. Classical "one-size-fits-all" approaches deliver the same content to a large target audience. The production of learning content at high cost is therefore justified. Outcome-oriented content production processes however deliver highly individualized content and have to cope with a diversity of interoperability standards. The need for re-use is therefore essential. In general terms the OICS roundtrip authoring re-use application addresses the authoring and creation of units of learning. The overall aim of the MediaLibrary is to support the multiple and different authoring processes that may be required to create increasingly complex units of learning. This is achieved by producing multiple variants from the same original material.