The SURF X4L Project
Documents
SURF X4L Main Reports and
Outputs
The SURF X4L project is now complete and its main outputs are now
available:
Culture Change, Pedagogy and Organisation
The “practice-focused” work of the SURF X4L partners in these areas is
summarized in:
Introducing the Reuse and Repurposing of
Content as part of the embedding of eLearning - A guide to good
practice and problem areas in cultural, educational and organisational
change
Author: Professor Mark Stiles, Staffordshire University,
The “Stories”
This document has been built on a synthesis of the accounts and
evaluation of work done at each of Stoke on Trent College and
Shrewsbury College. These “stories are each available:
SURF X4L - The
Stoke Story
Author: Steve Blakemore, Educational Technologist Team Leader,
Stoke-on-Trent College
SURF X4L –
The Shrewsbury Story
Authors: Richard Booth, ILT Co-ordinator and Dave Shearan, E-learning
Project Champion, Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology
Technical Strand
The technical strand of SURF X4L was carried out at Staffordshire
University and covered a number of areas, including packaging,
interoperability, an various trials using, and enhancements to, the
COSE VLE in the areas of content import, export and metadata carried
out mainly with a view to enhancing COSE as a system promoting content
exchange and re-use.
A report:
Reuse and
Repurposing of Resources for Content Exchange, including Technical
Considerations on Interoperability
Author: Edward Clarke, Staffordshire University
Is available, its contents include:
Introduction
An Export option for standalone content
Testing Content Interoperability
Project work and view on SCORM
Enhancing Metadata functionality
Linking to E-resources: a brokered approach in federated searching
Viewing third party content packages and importing content components
Accessibility
Identifying and Exploring E-resources
Ideas for further development
Outputs and Outcomes
Conclusions
Specific sub-sections of the report are available as separate documents
:
Lists of Resources Produced
Each College has produced a list of the resources produced as a result
of the project. The lists indicate which resources are being made
available outside of SURF via deposit in JORUM.
Resources from Stoke on Trent College
Resources from Shrewsbury College of Arts
and Technology
Staffordshire University also produced a small number of resources;
these will be made available via JORUM
Accessibility Report
The Royal National College for the Blind, Hereford, was a minor partner
in the SURF X4L project and produced an informal report which evaluates
some of the technical work done by the project, and a number of the
resources built by the two main partner colleges.
Evaluation Of Surf X4L Outputs
Author: Sue Garrett, ICT/ILT Development Officer, Royal National
College for the Blind
The COSE Virtual Learning Environment
New versions of COSE have been produced which incorporate outputs from
the SURF X4L Project. These are available free of charge from the
COSE Website
The COSE
2.1 manual supplement describes the first COSE release to
offer standalone content objects as a new interoperable option in
content packaging and interchange. It also describes contributed effort
in making COSE more accessible through use of screen readers.
SURF X4L Formative Reports
Bi-annual Report (August
2004)
Bi-annual Report
(February
2004)
Bi-annual Report (August 2003)
Bi-annual Report (February
2003)
Powerpoint
Presentation prepared for programme meeting at Warwick
July 2003
Other Reports
from Staffordshire University
September Update prepared
for X4L-Wales and Midlands Cluster at Warwick, Sept. 2003.
illustrates
use of standalone content objects generated in
COSE VLE, imported to other applications, learning systems and
repositories (reload, intralibrary, blackboard v. 5.5)
December
Update prepared for X4L-Wales and Midlands
Cluster at Telford, Jan. 2004
further illustrates use of standalone
content objects imported to other
learning systems and repositories (tekniCAL v. 4.1, granada learnwise 2
and olympus, webCT v4,(new version of intralibrary)and
describes work integrating reload code for viewing and editing metadata
August
Update
prepared for X4L-Wales and Midlands Cluster at Kettering, Sept.
2004
illustrating further work integrating
RELOAD code, developments in ICE (integrating e-resources) using JAFER
/
d+ toolkit, and discussion of ADL SCORM RTE integration
July 04 - The COSE 2.1 manual
supplement describes
the first COSE release to offer standalone content objects as a new
interoperable option in content packaging and interchange. It also
describes contributed effort in making COSE more accessible through use
of screen readers.
Further upgrades will be released in due course to reflect further work
including different organization elements, an interoperability feature
often used in third party host environments to render the content,
including a more accessible ('screenreader') organization element.
October 04 - technical report
and update for ICE
(Further) Dissemination Events
September 05 - Abstract
submitted for workshop at ALT-C, Manchester
TBA at JISC RSC, Wolverhampton (see ALT-C submission below)
Other Reports from
Shrewsbury College
Aug 04 report
SURF X4L Evaluation Report
Feb 04 report Developments
Feb 03 report Progress
on locating and repurposing content
Other Reports
from Stoke-on-Trent College
June 04 Stoke
college work in
progress / file downloads
Feb 03 report Notes on software
X4L-Wales and Midlands Cluster
JISCMAIL
Archives
©Staffordshire
University, 2003
Last
Updated, 23/09/05, Mark Stiles