DesignShare
The project addresses difficulties that are faced by a practitioner who is considering using a Unit of Learning (UOL) defined in IMS Learning Design, relating to the discovery, adaptation and publishing of the UOL.
Background
The OpenDocument.net repository which is developed by RayCom BV within the Leonardo-funded OpenDock project, provides an infrastructure which has the potential to address a number of these difficulties. The project will link the repository to an IMS Learning Design editor (Reload), to enable the discovery and sharing of learning designs. The project will develop a module within Reload and adapt the OpenDocument.net system to allow a user to query the OpenDocument.net repository network to discover UOLs. The project will investigate the most useful metadata to allow practitioners to share educational materials. The project will also demonstrate the utility of the service oriented approach to linking tools implemented using disparate technologies (in this case PHP/Java).