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The REI/MLH prject

Full Title: REI/MLH: Educational and Informative Resources based on Distributed Components: Methodology, Languages and Tools.

Briefing

The goal of this project is to define languages, to build tools and to develop a working methodology to enable hypermedia content authors to create and to maintain informational and educational resources on a Web based environment. Initially, these resources will be integrated into a software architecture developed by our research group in a previous project. During the execution of this project this software architecture will be adapted on demand to the functionality and requirements of the resources and tools developed in this project. In this project we understand by informational and educational resources software components -learning objects- that can be distributed and that must be in agreement with the new standards. In particular, they must agree with the SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) and with recommendations as ARIADNE (Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring & Distribution Networks for Europe).

In agreement with our research work in previous projects, the main goals of this project are to define markup languages (using XML) to structure the content and the logic of the educational and informational components and to build software tools based on these languages for authoring through the Web. In this project we will take into account the work done in the development of EMLs, Educational Modelling Languages. Especially the work done by the Open Universiteit Nederland and some of the most prestigious Distant Universities in Europe, work that is being coordinated by the CEN/ISSS ComitŽ EuropŽen de Normalisation / Information Society Standardization System.

Testing the tools, the methodology and the adequacy of the defined EMLs is the final goal of this project. For this reason we have in this project a Linguistics research group (subproject 2) that has been our research partner in some Spanish and European projects. This group will be responsible for the creation of resources to teach languages in areas of speciality. We will also work in this project with a research group in Archaeology (subproject 3), we have already collaborated with this group in the developed of educational resources using artifacts and othermaterials from archeological sites, its archeological lab and archeological museums. In this project we will extend this class of resources to cover not only pedagogical aspects but some other issues more informational in nature, such as the collaborative work between researchers working in different teams and/or archeological sites, and resources intended for cultural information centres.