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Open Course Library: Final Product and Master Course Shells

June 8, 2010 at 4:45 pm Leave a comment

Audience: Open Course Library Developers and Development Teams

Here is some information on the final product and Master Course shells in WAOL ANGEL for the Open Course Library.

Open Course Library Final Product:

Since the content of the courses developed for the Open Course Library must be portable and easy to share, course developers will be required to do the following:

• Develop the content in an open technical format, specifically, the IMS Common Course Cartridge format.
• Place all content necessary to teach the course in a Master shell on WAOL ANGEL.
• WAOL has created a Master shell for each course in WAOL ANGEL. Since the Masters exist in the WAOL domain, users from any college domain can be connected to them.  The courses use a common naming scheme:  WAOL-OCL-Master-Course Name-CourseNumber.
• Developers and support staff can get access to their Master(s) by contacting the WAOL office staff:  Mark Carbon mcarbon@sbctc.edu; Brook Bane  bbane@sbctc.edu ; Monique Kovalenko mkovalenko@sbctc.edu
• Developers and support staff who do not already have an account on WAOL ANGEL can create one by using the self-registration tool.  New users will need their Employee ID number and the passcode, which they can get from their elearning office.  They should choose their own college domain for their account.  Here’s the link to the WAOL ANGEL self-registration form.  https://www.waol.org/admin/RequestAngelAccount.aspx
• If the course will be delivered using tools outside a learning management system, the content must include enough information so another instructor can set up and teach the course.  For instance, if the course relies on an open source wiki, the WAOL ANGEL Master must include information on how to set up and use the wiki.
• Since all content must be portable, developers should not use the ANGEL Learning Object Repository as a development space for these courses.

After the course content and instructions have been added to the course master shells by the faculty developers and development teams, State Board staff will make the archives available within ANGEL and downloadable from the State Board website, and they will also transfer them to other open content repositories.

Please let us know if you have any questions or any problems in using the Master Course shells.

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