Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000149 EndHTML:0000002651 StartFragment:0000000199 EndFragment:0000002617 StartSelection:0000000199 EndSelection:0000002617 Attendees:
John Hunt
Mark Myers
Scott Hudson
Joann Hackos
Eliot Kimber
Mark provided an overview of the proposal:
Have implemented thousands of learning objects in DITA 1.2 Learning
Translating to 8 languages, and 120 courses on track for this year.
The model easily covers at least 95% of their e-Learning needs.
The biggest issue is being able to store learning objects as separate files on a file system or in a CMS. The learning objects are defined in a map. Would like to be able to reference multiple learnig maps to reuse the same set of learnig objects in different aggregations.
There are already parallel implementations that mirror this proposed approach (nested maps for example), so it is a matter of adding support for this in the Learning specialization.
Discussion:
Question: why do we need to add specific semantic elements for these, as opposed to using the existing map and topicref?
In the learningMap domain, we only allow a flat list of learning objects. You have to use learningGroup to allow levels of nesting of learning objects.
Is there enough justification for a new map type?
Are there other types of metadata or constructs that would have more of a value-add for the semantic approach?
duration, other data
Should there be a restriction that the learningObjectMap contain one and only one learning object?
This could help with a closer mapping to SCORM, where the learningObjectMap is the shareable courseware object.
A learning object, itself, is a SCO, but there isn’t currently a way to store it as a separate object. That is where the gap is.
If we need a separate learningObjectMap, we may also need a learningObjectGroupMap.
SAP is using bookmap for ILT. Eliot indicated that the example provided is not possible with the existing bookmap specialization (DITA rules for specialization do not allow it). Mark said that they did have to make some specializations of their own to make it work.
With the learningMap domain, the type attribute should be beneficial. May need someone to write a learning map validator.
Next Steps:
Mark to re-draft proposal based on the discussion feedback.
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Meeting - OASIS DITA Learning and Training sub-committee (Conference Call)