NovaRes and NovaArs
Ubiquitous Learning Content Authoring, Management and Delivery Technologies at OpeniWorld: eLearn
 
OiW:Most Innovative Use of Technology Award
For implementation with virtual world technologies
 
The NovaRes/NovaArs demonstrator impressed the OiW judges and attendees alike with its use of interoperability specifications to enhance learning  by blending standards based mobile learning in the real world with virtual learning experiences in virtual worlds.  Imagine being able to place images from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on the walls of a virtual walk-through gallery and collaboratively access Museum based learning in the real world using Mobile devices as well as in the virtual world.  Giunti didn't just imagine such a scenario, they delivered it using their LCMS technologies and standards based extensions.
 
Original Showcase Description:
 
Come to OpeniWorld: eLearn to learn about NovaRes Educational Resources Management, showcased by Giunti Labs, part of Southern Europe’s leading educational Publisher Giunti Publishing Group.
 
The NovaRes demonstrator will introduce Giunti Labs’ eLearning content management platform, learn eXact™, extended with a multi-vendor Service Oriented Architecture. It enables eLearning Authors and Publishers to integrate new generation Mobile, Virtual and Rich Media learning experiences within their streamline eLearning architectures.
 
In the authoring and creation process, NovaRes will demonstrate interoperability with:
 
  1. •Back-end pre-existing repositories and/or federations of learning assets repositories (e.g. Merlot, Ariadne, Lornet, Dspace, LionShare, etc.)

  2. •Intermediate content  brokerage solutions, such as the Calstate Digital marketplace

  3. •Front end delivery solutions, such as Moodle™, Sakai™, Blackboard™ and/or WebCT
 
NovaRes utilizes a combination of eLearning content packaging standards (e.g. IMS, SCORM) as well as query and publishing interfaces (e.g. OKI OSIDs, SQI, SRW) to layer the NovaRes blueprint on top of pre-existing eLearning architectures.
 
NovaRes will also demonstrate:
 
  1. •indexing of learning resources based on visual taxonomy maps for skills and topics mapping

  2. •location detection of learning resources using a combination of RFID, Wi-Fi and GPS positioning technologies provided by leading technology partners such as Microsoft and Cisco

  3. •delivery of learning resources on new generation mobile devices such as Sony Ericsson and Sprint Symbian™ phones, Blackberry™ mailers and Windows Mobile™ PDAs

  4. •rapid and massive production of Virtual Learning Worlds with collaborative access to virtual learning experiences and artifacts
 
These features are transparently integrated into streamline eLearning delivery platforms. They  complement and extend the streamline curricular experience provided today by existing Academic and Corporate elearning infrastructures, while interoperating with tracking, reporting and management functionalities required by such streamline infrastructures.
 
The demonstration at OpeniWorld will focus on a specific use of the NovaRes Architecture, named NovaArs, The New Face of Art, in scenarios of art education, including:
 
  1. •How art content authors and publishers can create advanced learning objects with Giunti Labs’ LCMS System and Authoring Tools, accessing distributed collections to harvest, broker, create and index standard contents to be then pushed and/or pulled to and from both commercial and open source LMS solutions.

  2. •How advanced instructional designers can use these standard Learning Objects within new Collaborative Learning Worlds, Mobile devices and Location Based Navigation Systems to prepare a fully immersive blended learning experience.

  3. •How students can access the scenarios created by a blending of web-based platforms and tools and a collection of different mobile devices (e.g. Windows Mobile™M, BlackBerry™, Symbian™ smart phones and PDAs) to search and deliver standard contents while accessing Open DRs in the federation.
 
About Giunti Labs North America
 
Giunti Labs North America (www.giuntilabs.com), located in Boston, MA is the North American headquarters of Europe’s leading provider of new generation learning content authoring and management solutions. Now Giunti Labs is also offering Mobile Learning, Virtual Learning and Geo Learning plug-ins to complement its flagship learn eXact LCMS technology, currently deployed in more than 100 leading publishing, academic and corporate organizations worldwide.
 
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