Lifecycle Information Management and Utilization in an Authoring by Aggregation Environment

Lasse Lehmann; Christoph Rensing; Ralf Steinmetz

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3142–3149

During their lifecycle, learning resources gather many kinds of information and relations, which could be helpful for their use, re-use and management. Unfortunately the storing, capturing and utilization of these relations is not yet supported by...

Topics: Learning Management Systems

Automating Layout Adaptation of Textual-based E-Learning Content

Michael Metzger; Birgit Zimmermann; Sonja Bergsträßer; Christoph Rensing; Ralf Steinmetz

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3158–3163

The re-use of existing content plays a significant role in the increasing market of E-Learning content. But often this re-use of content requires adaptations to adjust the content for its new usage. This paper focuses on adapting the layout of E...

ResourceCenter - A Digital Learning Object Repository with an Integrated Authoring Tool Set

Stefan Hoermann; Tomas Hildebrandt; Christoph Rensing; Ralf Steinmetz

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3453–3460

The ResourceCenter, which we describe in this paper, is a web-based digital repository for learning objects with an integrated tool set for authoring of SCORM-compliant courses. We developed this integrated system and the scientific concepts to...

Topics: Integration, Learning Objects

Building a Representation of Learning Resources to Support their Re-Purposing

Sonja Bergsträßer; Birgit Zimmermann; Christoph Rensing; Ralf Steinmetz

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3128–3136

The Re-Use of Learning Resources is an important issue and it is addressed in several actual papers. Re-using Learning Resources in a new context makes it necessary to adapt them to fit the new requirements. Our goal is to support users to perform...

An Interactive Tool for Supporting Modularization of SCORM-Based Learning Resources

Marek Meyer; Birgit Zimmermann; Christoph Rensing; Ralf Steinmetz

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3164–3171

Reusability of Learning Resources has been a research issue for many years. There are several theoretical solutions for enabling efficient reuse of Learning Resources. In practice though, reuse is still far behind its potential. One key requirement...

Topics: Learning Objects