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A Framework to Enable Enriched Training Experience

Tomáš Pitner, Jaroslav Ráček

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Laurent Schumacher, Geoffrey Miche

Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

What is V3

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Versatile Vocational and educational training Vehicle (V3)

– Goal: design, implement, deploy, evaluate and exploit a versatile, user-friendly, ICT-based Vocational and Educational Training (VET) framework suited for lifelong learning activities. – Funding: EU Leonardo Programme – Further info:

• http://www.leonardo-v3.eu
• http://v3.euproject.org

Motivation

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Lisbon European Council (March 2000)

– need for Europeans to increase their professional skills and employability – many projects and initiatives and a number of innovative tools for generating training contents emerged – however, they not succeeded in establishing in the long run, due to a lack of versatility and user-friendliness

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As a conclusion, the ambition of V3 is

– design and implement a versatile, user-friendly training framework – requiring a limited investment from the trainer – achieve a performing competence building process with the trainees

Building a User-Friendly Training Framework

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The V3 functionality (Trainer)

– Seminars given by the trainer will be recorded with the help of an open-source, add-on software merging screen and voice activities. – Screenshots are recorded, embedding not only slide presentations, but also demonstrations, annotations...

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The V3 functionality (Server)

– upload the recording as audiovisual file – automatic indexing tools applied in order to – enable searches through file collection and – facilitate navigation within each file.

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The V3 functionality (LMS)

– audiovisual files and indexes comply with public encoding and indexing standards (MPEG, LOM and SCORM) – are available through the Learning Management System platform of the trainer's

• rganisation

Recording Software

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Recording Tool: It must satisfy the needs of:

– licensing (free, open-source) – portability (at least all current MS Windows) – readiness (no time for any longer development) – extensibility (enhancements needed)

Recording Software

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Recording Tool: The Choices

– SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) based solution:

• pros: free, open-source, running on Linux (and

Windows?)

• contras: must have been developed from scratch

– CamStudio based solution:

• pros: readily available, open-sourced
• contras: runs on Windows only

CamStudio won!

Recording Software

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CamStudio - The Improvements Needed

– User-friendliness (loss-of-signal notification) – More compact output (XviD) – Compatibility issues:

• Windows version (98, Millenium vs. 2000, XP)
• various sound interface (Bluetooth HF sets vs.

microphone & sound card)

Indexing

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Server-side: Upload & Indexing

– storage: centralized – indexing: a real problem with proprietary file formats – gather metadata at:

• file-level
• slide/chunk-level

LMS Integration

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LMS Integration

– two sites with centralized content storage

• @ ZMML, University of Bremen, Germany
• @ FUNDP, Namur, Belgium

– interfacing with the partners’ learning management systems via web services

Use Cases

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Lecturer/Trainer Use Cases

Start recording Pause recording (with short key) End recording Slide-level metadata collection Upload recording Upload slide-level metadata in DB Organise a SCORM-compliant learning pathway in the LMS using uploaded recordings and uploaded and/or included file- /slide-level metadata Segment recording with slide-level metadata Insert file-level metadata Upload segmented recording Upload file-level metadata in DB Collect file-level metadata Insert file-level metadata in recording Virtual cutting Server processing Physical cutting Client processing LOM Start recording Pause recording (with short key) End recording Slide-level metadata collection Upload recording Upload slide-level metadata in DB Organise a SCORM-compliant learning pathway in the LMS using uploaded recordings and uploaded and/or included file- /slide-level metadata Segment recording with slide-level metadata Segment recording with slide-level metadata Insert file-level metadata Upload segmented recording Upload segmented recording Upload file-level metadata in DB Upload file-level metadata in DB Collect file-level metadata Collect file-level metadata Insert file-level metadata in recording Insert file-level metadata in recording Virtual cutting Server processing Physical cutting Client processing LOM

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Student/Trainee Use Cases

Recordings Recordings with file-level meta-data

Looking for recordings of a given course Looking for a given recording Looking for a given keyword List of recordings

• f that course

Search into file-level meta-data Download selected recording(s) Download hit(s) Download relevant … Download full relevant recording Stream relevant … … pre-cut chunk(s) (physical cut) … chunk(s) cut on the fly (virtual cut) Recording (URL) Chunk (URL) Keywords DB Search into slide-level meta-data

LMS Recordings with slide-level meta-data

LOM

Recordings Recordings with file-level meta-data

Looking for recordings of a given course Looking for a given recording Looking for a given keyword List of recordings

• f that course

Search into file-level meta-data Download selected recording(s) Download hit(s) Download relevant … Download full relevant recording Stream relevant … … pre-cut chunk(s) (physical cut) … chunk(s) cut on the fly (virtual cut) Recording (URL) Chunk (URL) Keywords DB Keywords DB Search into slide-level meta-data

LMS Recordings with slide-level meta-data

LOM

Valorisation

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Valorisation - The Goals

– deploy, evaluate and exploit the implemented training framework – @ consortium & other partners institutions – various subjects, not just IT:

• software development (programming, SW eng.)
• project and process management
• biostatistics

Valorisation

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Valorisation - The Target Area

Conclusion

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Conclusion & Future

Released as: – comprehensive, user-friendly, – open-source framework – enabling enriched training experience – in life-long learning

Discussion

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Questions, more info?

– Now! – E-mail: Tomáš Pitner, tomp@fi.muni.cz – V3 websites:

• http://www.leonardo-v3.eu
• http://v3.euproject.org