From VRE to CVTLE

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From VRE to CVTLE

• Lester Gilbert, Onjira Sitthisak, Yee Wai Sim,
  Chu Wang, Gary Wills
• Learning Technologies Group
• University of Southampton

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Overview

• A management perspective
• Im not so technical, so I asked my PhD students
  and Research Assistants what I should say at the
  TENcompetence workshop.
• Some issues around SOAs for CVTLEs
• We have completed a SOA VRE.
• This is what my PhD students and Research
  Assistants seem to be worried about.
• Questions. No answers
• Tell me where Ive got it wrong
• I may not have understood what my PhD students
  and Research Assistants said, and your feedback
  will certainly help me when I report back.

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Glossary (TLAs and FaFLAs)

• VRE
• Virtual research environment
• VOEU
• Virtual orthopaedic European university project
• EU-funded project
• Normal monolithic application
• CORE
• Collaborative orthopaedic research environment
  project
• JISC funded, SOA
• SOA
• Service-oriented architecture
• CVTLE
• Collaborative virtual teaching and learning
  environment
• R2Q2
• Render and response services for QTI v2
• JISC funded

Excuse me,what is a FaFLA?
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CORE VRE architecture
So what happens with a CVTLE?
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VRE to CVTLE
User data issue
Whats the bestway to accessthe user data?
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VRE to CVTLE
Workflow rename
Teaching and learningcontrol? OK, it is
justa name
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VRE to CVTLE
Added services
That will have to be quitea clever repository
That is very straightforward, right?
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Orchestration issue 1
CVTLE
It cant work that way!
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CVTLE Orchestration solution 1?
Thats better. But what about the QTI?
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R2Q2 QTI renderer issue 2
QTI XML
Rendered XHTML
Statemust berememberedsomewheresomehow
Answer XML
Feedback XHTML
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CVTLE Orchestration solution 12?
Teaching and learningcontrol? Its got
seriouswork to do. And
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CVTLE Orchestration solution 12?
Looks like we needa whole bunch ofVogten
adaptors
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Thank you

• Questions, comments, discussion