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ACADEMIC RULE

A rule that constrains enrollment.

Degree rules. admission rules

Academic rule: Admission rules

Rules that cover admission to the institution (or a specific program of study).  May refer to SAT scores, IB scores, High School grades and English proficiency tests (eg TOEFL)

Academic rule: Program rules

Rules that specify courses or work that must be completed to fulfill promotional requirements or completion requirement.  Degree Audit rules typically specify completion requirement.

Degree audit rules, academic progression rules

Academic rule: Registration rules

Rules that constrain registration

Pre-requisites, co-requisites or any kind of restriction

Academic calendar

For convenience the academic year can be divided into sub-units: semesters, terms etc.  There can be multiple academic calendars

Fall semester, winter semester, summer terms

Group

A collection of persons or groups (used in access management)

Grouper has become something of a de-facto standard in Higher Education (

http://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity-middleware/grouper/^{Image Added}

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LEARNING COMPONENT

An object of pedagogical value that is created and curated by the institution. May be re-used.  Access (read,write, modify) may be controlled by permissions assigned to roles just like any other object in the learning ecosystem.  Metadata, tags and usage data are associated with all Learning Objects.

Video, game, simulation, static content (PDF, HTML), quiz

If the Learning Component is a tool, then there is the IMS standard for Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI): [http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm

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] For the content of the component the is the IEEE Standard for Learning Object Metadata:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1032843

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Learning Object: Graphics

.png, .jpeg and .svg have become the standards for the Internet.  Standard Vector Graphics (SVG) have the enormous advantage of scaling without loss of clarity (as well as the fact that annotations can be embedded in the xml)

Learning Object: Interactive object

Interactive objects ranging from Calculus tutors to Second Life

Maple Calculus Tutor, Second Life, Chemistry Dry Labs

Learning Object: Text

PDF has become a ubiquitous standard for lecture notes and other course materials

Learning Object: Video

Learning Objective

Cognitive, psychomotor or affective objectives

Bloom's taxonomy is the most often quoted.  The Common Core (

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards^{Image Added}

) defines objectives for K-12.  Without clearly articulated objectives, measurement is problematical.  However, there are no universal standards for objectives.

Learning Plan

Learners intended course of study

Learning Result

Result assigned to a learner upon completion of a Learning Unit

Grade, standing, degree

The IMS CALIPER project provides a finely grained approach to measuring the learning process:

http://www.imsglobal.org/IMSLearningAnalyticsWP.pdf\\^{Image Added}

For learning results captures by a student transcript: the PESC College Transcript (

http://www.pesc.org/interior.php?page_id=164^{Image Added}

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LEARNING UNIT

Any definition of a learning activity.  The abstraction used to isolate core attributes and relationships: learning objectives, organizational relationships, rules.  Learning Objects, by contrast, are the actual objects of pedagogical value that are used to accomplish the Learning Objectives of the Learning Unit.

Program, course, specialization

Learning Unit: Program

Any program of study that is composed of multiple units.  There may be rules constraining the manner in which these units are assembled.

Bachelor of Science. Major Biology.  First Aid Certificate

Learning Unit: Area of Study

Usually an area of specialization within a program. Again, rules define how this is completed

Major in History.  Minor in Philosophy

Learning Unit: Course

Learning Unit: Experiential Learning

Coop or work study.  Credit may be given

3 month internship at IBM

Learning Unit: Project Based Learning

Usually research based.  May be new research (as in a post-graduate thesis) or an opportunity to learn research methods (as in an undergraduate research project)

PhD thesis, Masters thesis

Learning Unit Instance

Any scheduled offering of a Learning Unit

Course offering, scheduled lecture

ORGANIZATION

A group with some formal Terms of Reference within an institution.  Could also be an external organization

University, College, High-school, Department, Faculty, US Department of Education, Max Planck Institute

Permission

A permission defines access to a resource

Access to lab equipment, access to library resources

PERSON

Person lies at the heart of the Learning Ecosystem.  A person may have multiple concurrent roles.

Learner, instructor, administrator

There is the Internet2 schema for eduPerson: http://www.internet2.edu/media/medialibrary/2013/09/04/internet2-mace-dir-eduperson-201203.html

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Person:Administrator

Anyone administering registration, scheduling, facilities

Person:Content Developer

Anyone connected with creating learning units

Subject matter expert (Faculty), librarian, web-developer, pedagogical expert

Person:Instructor

Person with primary responsibility for delivering content

Lecturer

Person:Learner

Any "consumer" in the learning process

Degree, student, non-degree student, life-long learner

Person:Mentor

A person with an ancillary role in the learning process

Adviser, tutor, auditor

Person:Teaching Assistant

Resource

Any resource used in the learning process

Room, server, projector, file, books, articles, videos