LORNET Future Network
Beyond NSERC Funding
DRAFT NOT FOR DIFFUSION
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1. Things to debate
Assumption:
The network wants a LORNET future
If not : … let’s have a beer !
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Some Basic Questions
 Network Focus / Scope Future?
 Extended research project network
 Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE) and
Tools development network
 A LOR Network taking over on EduSource
 Will LORNET Network:
 Expand beyond research to manage content
development and/or tools-platform
implementation ?
 Integrate stakeholders support ?
 What would be the organizational/business
model?
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Canadian and International Context
How LORNET will position itself :
 CLE such as SAKAI
 Other LMS: MOODLE, ATUTOR, …
 Canadian LORs initiatives
 CCL e-learning strategy
 International initiatives
 GLOBE, ARIADNE, PROLEARN…
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LORNET: a bi-focal initiative
CLE Tools
development
In both dimension
there is a need to develop
a Canadian
and even an International
stakeholders basis
LORNET Research
Network
LO
Ontologies,
Methodologies
and Tools
development
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TELOS
CLE / LKMS
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Canadian
LORs-Net ?
LORNET result environment
LORNET Research
Network
CCL
Strategy
Canadian
LORs-Net
Ontologies,
Methodologies
and Tools
development
GLOBE
ARIADNE,
MERLOT,
NIME,
EDNA.
LORNET
TELOS
CLE/LKMS
Other ?
ATUTOR
MOODLE
SAKAI
Core founding
Universities
University members
Corporate members
CLAROLINE
ODYSSEE
Laval University
Microsoft
CONCEPT@
And more than 100 other LMS/LCMS
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Analysis
Toward a future business plan
 LORNET versus other comparative
projects
 CLE: SAKAI…
 LOR: MERLOT, ARIADNE,
 Other type of initiatives
 JISC, EDUCAUSE, education.au, COL , …
 LORNET and the CCL initiative
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2. The CLE – LKMS perspective
TELOS Future
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CLE - LCMS Initiatives
(Collaborative Learning Environment)
Non Commercial initiatives
Canadian
CLE
TELOS
ODYSSEE
LCMS
ATUTOR
CONCEPT@
iHelp
…
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International
CLE
SAKAI
ARIADNE sub-project
LCMS
MOODLE
CLAROLINE
France’s initiatives
More than 120 open
source LCMS
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SAKAI project
 SAKAI project is an initiative of four US universities
(core partners: Michigan, Indiana, MIT and Stanford)
aiming to develop a collaborative learning environment (CLE) based on an open source collaborative
approach or more appropriately a community source
sharing approach
 Rational: to build, a collection of open source tools
 Ensure that the project will answer faculty needs,
 Use IMS and OKI standards to ensure interoperability,
scalability and performance.
 Control the destiny as opposed to be at the mercy of
proprietary and non-flexible systems.
 Use the huge innovative potential of universities
collaborating and the best practices.
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SAKAI Model
 Community source model which is different
from open source since the contributing
community is composed of its members paying
a fee.
 University membership gives access to:
 SEPP staff (community development manager,
developers and document writers)
 Knowledge base
 Developer training for the TPP
 Exchange for partner developed tools
 Strategy and implementation workshops
 Early access to pre-release code
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SAKAI Model
 Commercial support :
 For fee services from business partners such as
installation/integration, on-going support,
training, etc.
 SAKAI commercial affiliates have access to:
 free software via the Educational Community
License
 for fee support option
 Experience with open source software to provide:
hosting, consulting, installation, integration,
support services
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SAKAI Funding
 SAKAI has different source of financing:
 a grant from the Mellon Foundation (2,4 M$)
 university membership : a 3 year enrolment
mandatory for a fee of 10,000 $ (big university)
or 5,000$ (small university, colleges…) which
gives access to documentation, and on demand
services such as help to install tools.
 Additional investment through business partners
(non-disclosed amount)
 In-kind contribution from universities (estimated
value of 4,4 M$)
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SAKAI Governance
A board of directors
composed of 9 persons, 8
from university representatives and 1 from the
Mellon Foundation.
Board of Directors
(Project initiators)
Technical Executive
Committee
Business
partners
Framework
& Services
University
partners
Selected
team of
Developer
s
Tool
Team
Development
& Release
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University core partners:
each core partners commits
5+ developers/architects
under the SAKAI Board
project direction for 2 years;
an in-kind contribution
estimated to 27 full time
employees and 4,4 M$.
LORNET versus SAKAI
 LORNET is, like SAKAI, a Community
(source?) project BUT lacking university
members and “publicity-visibility”.
 To go further would need:
 To give LORNET-TELOS visibility
 Have a commitment from LORNET’s universities
(core partners) to adopt TELOS
 Offer a membership structure giving access to
documentation and some services.
This would imply to have a staff able to give
services like the SEPP staff.
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TELOS visibility
 Action to better publicize TELOS?
 Publish articles comparing SAKAI and
LORNET frameworks, scope, functionalities,
etc.
 Present seminars/workshops to institution’s
e-learning promoters & computer platforms
management teams
 Develop a Portal in support of information,
general documentation and giving access
to tools source code for members
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Toward a TELOS Business Plan
LORNET Action Plan:
 Act to ensure LORNET university partners
commitment to experiment/adopt TELOS
 Create a not-for-profit corporation
 Enlarge possible stakeholders on a
membership basis
 University and colleges
 Government Ministers
 Corporations in the e-learning business and
others
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TELOS funding
 Membership fee in exchange of
services
 University/college membership
 Corporate membership
 Federal / provincial support
 CCL, Canarie, Industry Canada
 Education Ministers
 “in-kind” contribution
 Core partners: office facilities, in-kind
contribution …
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3. The LOR perspective
Beyond Tools
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LOR initiatives
Canadian
CLOE
PALOMA – UQ
CAREO
SciQ
THEME
AVIRE
Alexandria (?)
EduSource (?)
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International
MERLOT
ARIADNE
EducaNext (18 European institution)
NIME
EdNA
JORUM (UK)
AEShareNet (Australia)
COL’S LOR
GEM (Gateway to Educational Materials US)
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MERLOT
 MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning
and Online Teaching), a free and open resource, is:

A continually growing catalog of online learning materials,
peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments,
organized by discipline into specific discipline communities and
created to help faculty enhance their instruction, that anyone can
use for free.

An international consortium of partners and affiliates who

A community of individual members, from academia,

A technology initiative with its own infrastructure and dynamically
designed set of technology tools and software development
policies created to help faculty integrate high quality online
instructional technology resources into their courses effectively,
easily, and enjoyably.
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cooperate to continually create, expand, and refine MERLOT in
order to transform and improve higher education.
business, and professional organizations, who strive to share and
enrich their teaching and learning experiences by contributing to
MERLOT. Contributing and sharing materials and resources is free
to MERLOT members.
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MERLOT Organization
Representatives of
institutional partners
Project Directors’
Council
Transition
Advisory
Board
Administrative
Team
12
members
Staff of 11
persons
Discipline Editors
Council
Peer Review
Editorial Board
Peer Review
Editorial Board
Discipline
Community
Discipline
Community
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Peer Review
Peer Review
Peer Review
Editorial Board Editorial Board Editorial Board
Discipline
Community
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Discipline
Community
Discipline
Community
MERLOT Partnerships
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MERLOT Partners & Affiliates
Higher Education Partners and Affiliates
Sustaining Partners:
California State University System
Cooperative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE), University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada
System Partners and Affiliates:
California Community College System
Colorado Community Colleges Online
Louisiana Board of Regents
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
South Dakota Board of Regents
State University of New York
Tennessee Board of Regents
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina
University of Wisconsin System
University System of Georgia
Virginia Community College System
Campus Partners and Affiliates:
Cornell University
Heald College
Indiana State University
National University of Rwanda
Queens College of the City University of New York
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Seton Hall University
St. Petersburg College (Florida)
Troy University
Utah State University
Wesleyan University
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MERLOT Corporate Partners &
Sponsors
 Corporate Leadership Partners:
 O'Reilly Media
 Sun Microsystems
 Learning Management System
Partners:
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Angel Learning
Blackboard
Desire2Learn
WebCT
 Library Systems Partners:
 Ex Libris Ltd
 Sentient Learning
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ARIADNE: more than a LOR
 ARIADNE Foundation purposes
 to improve the quality and efficiency of educational
systems by the sharing and reuse of knowledge
components,
 to foster the creation of new knowledge components
and to make them easily accessible and reusable,
 to promote the appropriate use in education and
training of information and communication
technologies, and
 to promote and, if necessary, to defend
multilingualism and multiculturalism, which
characterise Europe’s - and most of the world’s formation systems
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ARIADNE scope
 Learning objects capitalization, sharing and reuse.
 Learning objects multilingual indexation.
 Learning objects authoring (courseware-type-specific
authoring).
 Capture of socio-geographical learners' data.
 Design of socio-geographically targeted curricula.
 Learning objects selection and assembling in targeted
curricula.
 Design of web distributed distance courses.
 Best practices in the use of interactive communication
technologies.
 Best practices in management of small, medium and
large ODL courses.
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ARIADNE tools
 KPS (Knowledge Pool System) the LO repository
 SILO & PHD generator to search & index LOs
 PHOENIX, GenEval, OASIS, QuizCode, Sephyr,
VideoClip generator: authoring tools to index
pedagogical material to insert in KPS
 Curriculum editor: course planning
 ALI (Ariadne Learner Interface) a Web base interface to
develop course content
 2 experimental tools that federate queries : AWS and SQI
 Experimental tool integrated in 2 LMS (INES and Moodle)
to queries ARIADNE KPS
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ARIADNE n-f-p Association
 29+ European universities and schools, 10
private corp., + other members
 Fee-Membership base
 Public institutions
 Private corporations
 Individuals
 Members’ services
 Access to KPS and tools
 Provide technical and pedagogical assistance
(fees for non-members)
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ARIADNE Fee Structure
Public or not-for-profit Institutions and their
Administrative Subdivisions
Annual Fee
(EUR)
Training
Rights
Number of
Votes
500
4
1
Large
1500
4500
8
12
2
3
0,2
Individual Member
50
1
(1 for 5
Category
Small or with
limited means
Middle
members)
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ARIADNE Fee Structure
Private Companies and their
Administrative Subdivisions
Category
Annual Fee
(EUR)
Training
Rights
Number of
Votes
Small or with
limited means
2500
4
1
Middle
Large
" Gold "(1)
7500
15000
50000
8
12
16
2
3
4
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ARIADNE Governance
 Steering Committee: Chairman + 1
representative of each CDS + 1
treasurer
 5 CDS (Centre for Development and
Services):
 Lausanne, Leuven, Grenoble, Toulouse,
Galati (Romania)
 Scientific Committee
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LORNET and LORs
 Contrary to MERLOT, ARIADNE and
others LOR, LORNET does not
“represent” any repository (except
AVIRE ?)
 LORNET being an umbrella for LORs ?
 Can we help building or federating LORs
 List of Canadian LORs
 UQ (in construction), CLOE, EduSource,
CAREO, SciQ, THEME, AVIRE, … (museums)
Suggestion:
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4. LORNET and CCL Strategy
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CCL Initiative
 CCL promoting an e-learning
Canadian strategy
To create a reliable, pan-Canadian network of Highquality, online, learning resources that serve the
needs of all communities
 Scope
 infrastructure, tools and standards
 Content development through regional
Centres
 Community building
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CCL Initiative
(5 years)
Coordinating Body
12,6 M$
Infrastructure, Tools & Standards
LORNET: 1,0 M$
4,5 M$
Content
6 Regional Centres: 12M$
Pilot Courseware creation: 10M$
22,2 M$
Community Building
ABEL: Material to support educators: 10M$
Discipline Specific LOR – CLOE : 2,5M$
17,5 M$
Deployment
20 LO Repositories: 10M$
Training and Support ABEL: 5 M$
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15 M$
LORNET in the CCL Initiative
 How LORNET would like to position
itself in the Canadian Strategy ?
 How to acquire a better visibility ?
 We should invite CCL representatives to
LORNET conferences
 Invite other identified participants to
conferences (they are added to
InfoLORNET)
 Participate in the Strategy Task-Force
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