Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Request for advice from the OCT

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36: Re: Request for advice from the OCT (response to 1)
Posted by Matthias Melcher on 06/16/04 01:37 PM
I don't understand why we must think in terms of
"packages" that are arbitrarily put together
according to incidental funders' alliances, instead
of trying to achieve more modularity, distinguishing
between functionalities that are commonly needed and
reused (as some core SS, QTI, and LOR/CP logic and
concepts), vs. extensions into various directions (of both
learning and non-learning focus).

If assessment used the LORS for questions, sections,
and assessments, they were addressible throughout all
modules that share the common infrastructure, and hence
reusable more easily.

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38: Re: Request for advice from the OCT (response to 36)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 06/16/04 03:18 PM
If assessment used the LORS for questions, sections, and assessments, they were addressible throughout all modules that share the common infrastructure, and hence reusable more easily.

Matthias, can you give me a concrete example and use case to work with. Furthermore, can you state why this would not be the case in the current situation, where it is defined in the specifications of the assessment system that an API is provided to third party modules to access and store information within the assessment system.

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40: Re: Request for advice from the OCT (response to 38)
Posted by Ernie Ghiglione on 06/16/04 03:35 PM
<blockquote> Matthias, can you give me a concrete example and use case to work
with. Furthermore, can you state why this would not be the case in the
current situation, where it is defined in the specifications of the
assessment system that an API is provided to third party modules to
access and store information within the assessment system.
</blockquote>

Malte, I'll give you an example you require in just a few days. I'm coding it so you'll see it implemented. Just bare with me for a few days.

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41: Re: Request for advice from the OCT (response to 38)
Posted by Matthias Melcher on 06/16/04 03:46 PM
<blockquote> Matthias, can you give me a concrete example and use case
</blockquote>

As far as I understand the IMS repository, the question
item used as above, first in a formative test at the
end of a chapter, and then in a summative test at
the end of the term, would be such an example, and a
third usage might occur if the question item is only
conditionally accessed if the student's age is > 90
(well, perhaps the question is asked in a neurology
department, after all).

If the items are in the same repository and on the same
level as webcontent items used for chapter content,
this would IMO simplify at least the user interface,
and I would guess that also the actual coding could
be simplified if a clean simple division of labor and
simple concepts of "item" are applied.