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About
The rights-enabled Learning Object Exchange (LOX) has been specifically designed
to demonstrate possible technical, legal and business issues concerning the
exchange of learning objects within the Vocational Education and Training
(VET) sector.
Issues of Intellectual Property and Copyright (IP&C),
flexible learning and publishing systems show a convergence
of concerns - to date they have evolved as independent
entities, but now are requiring a 'road map' in terms of
Digital Rights Management (DRM).
How it can help
The Trial project has provided a framework for the: |
Tim Hand
Open Training & Education Network
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- Analysis of business, cultural
and technical inter-operability issues of trading rights enabled. LOs
between education systems
and organisations, to establish the basis for this provision,
especially within VET
- Attractiveness and acceptance of LOs (and
their associated components) as a form of re-usability of educational
content.
- Types of offers (and therefore agreements) that would
be most popular/acceptable with different types of LO acquirers
across educational
and training sectors, corporate training departments and RTOs.
- Possible interpretation
of these offers in an appropriate Digital Rights Expression
Language (DREL).
- Applicability of these offers within the VET
sector, with reference to various business models.
- Trialling
of the suitability of current licence protocols used for modules
and subjects when applied to learning
objects.
- Repurposing of learning materials at the learning object level
taking special note of contextualisation.
- Trialling
of a demonstration of these rights offers within the context
of a Learning Object Exchange (provided
by IPR systems Australia).
- Commentary of IP policy/Copyright Acts as relevant
to reusable digital resources.
Sample product
The LOX demonstrator is provided to facilitate a better understanding
of the conceptual thinking behind the project. It was not developed
as a robust
application for wide use. A tour of the demonstrator is provided
in a PowerPoint presentation, also available below. Access to
the demonstrator can also be arranged by contacting Tim Hand at tim.hand@tafensw.edu.au until
the end of March 2004.
Who is it for?
While the project outcomes are intended specifically for the Vocational
Education Sector (VET), there is wider relevance to any providers
interested in the exchange and provision of digital material, and its attendant
technical and
legal implications.
Specifically the report has relevance to three main target groups:
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Major providers of Learning Objects such as OTEN, WestOne and TAFE Open
Learning Institute of Queensland (OLI), TAFE digital content
production units and The Learning Federation (TLF). A secondary group
including
University and school publishers and commercial LO developers
such as NETg, SmartForce.
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Acquirers of Learning Objects who will use them
to mix and match
and deliver their tailored courseware to their constituents:
TAFE Online Departments
in each state, RTOs, School Systems, Commercial Training Departments.
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Educational
resource providers or distributors such as AEShareNet and TAFE
Frontiers.
Download resources
* These documents are available in Adobe Acrobat's Portable
Document Format (PDF). If you do not already have the Acrobat Reader you
can download
it for free from Adobe.
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The project resources available on-line through the links
above, as well as additional video footage, sound and images
have been developed into a multimedia resource of 'new practices'.
This CD-ROM is available and can be ordered through your local
Framework communication officer by completing the online order
form.
Order a New Practices in Flexible Learning CD-ROM.
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