JCDL 2004

How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?

Digital libraries and collections of digital resources now catalog and provide access to a wide variety of digital learning objects, including web sites, courseware, simulations, and other interactive educational software. Many of these collections are part of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), intended to be used by educators and learners.

The long-term sustainability of these collections, and of the NSDL as a whole, requires paying attention not just to collecting and cataloging learning objects but also to ensuring they can be used and to supporting their use. This is the goal of the NSDL Reusability Project. This project has developed reusable design guidelines and materials to help collections identify and address policy and technology issues relevant to reusability, specifically to making learning objects easier to reuse, or to modify for reuse, in multiple contexts and in multiple learning environments.

This workshop will:

  • Present and discuss reusable design guidelines for digital library developers.
  • Discuss how collections can incorporate the guidelines into their collection development policies.

The audience for this workshop includes:

  • Developers of digital libraries that include courseware, learning objects, simulations, visualizations and other interactive educational software.

Agenda

JCDL Workshop Agenda
Friday, June 11, 2004
9:00 – 9:40 am Introduction and presentation of Reusable Design Guidelines
9:40 – 9:55 am Invited Paper from GROW demonstrating reusable digital learning resources
9:55 – 10:00 am Break
10:00 – 11:20 am Invited Presentations (ENC, MERLOT and 2 additional presentations) on collection experiences with implementing the Reusable Design Guidelines
11:20 – 12:00 noon Discussion

  • Suggested changes or additions to the reusable design guidelines.
  • Improving the usefulness of digital libraries and collections through reusable design guidelines and associated policies: suggestions and comments (to be captured and posted to the reusablelearning.org Web site).

Handouts

  • Robson, R., Collier, G. & Muramatsu, B. (2004, May). Reusable Design Guidelines
    Retrieved From: Robson, R., Collier, G. & Muramatsu, B. (2004, May). Reusable Design Guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/nsdl/workshops/may04/jcdl-0604/guidelines-v2.9.pdf.

Presentations

  • Robson, R., Collier, G. & Muramatsu, B. (2004, June). Reusability Guidelines for Collections.
    Retrieved From: Robson, R., Collier, G. & Muramatsu, B. (2004, June). Reusability Guidelines for Collections. Presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on “How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?”, Tucson, AZ, June 11, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/presentations/jcdl-0604/RL-JCDL-0604.ppt.
  • Brent, W. (2004, June). Reusability and GROW.
    Retrieved From: Brent, W. (2004, June). Reusability and GROW.Presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on “How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?”, Tucson, AZ, June 11, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/presentations/jcdl-0604/Brent-ReusabilityGROW-JCDL04.ppt.
  • Hanley, G. (Presented by Muramatsu, B.). (2004, June). Reusability: Setting Standards for Sharing in MERLOT.
    Retrieved From: Hanley, G. (Presented by Muramatsu, B.) (2004, June). Reusability: Setting Standards for Sharing in MERLOT.Presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on “How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?”, Tucson, AZ, June 11, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/presentations/jcdl-0604/Hanley-ReusabiltyAndSharing-JCDL04.ppt.
  • Lightle, K. (2004, June). ENC and Reusability.
    Retrieved From: Lightle, K. (2004, June). ENC and Reusability. Presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on “How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?”, Tucson, AZ, June 11, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/presentations/jcdl-0604/Lightle-Reusability-JCDL04.ppt.
  • Lowe, C. & Bartolo, L. (2004, June). Resuability and the Materials Digital Library.
    Retrieved From: Lowe, C. (2004, June). Reusability and the Materials Digital Library. Presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on “How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?”, Tucson, AZ, June 11, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/presentations/jcdl-0604/MatDL_reuse_JCDL04.zip.
  • McDaris, J. (2004, June). Supporting Reusability.
    Retrieved From: McDaris, J. (2004, June). Supporting Reusability. Presented at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Workshop on “How can reusable design guidelines improve the usefulness of educational digital libraries and collections?”, Tucson, AZ, June 11, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.reusablelearning.org/docs/presentations/jcdl-0604/McDaris-SupportingReusability-JCDL04.ppt.

More information

To register for the workshop go to the JCDL Workshop Description.