2.00pm Wednesday(1)

<b>YOLA - your online learning assistant </b>
Just in time learning assistant
- numeracy assistance for building trades especially for prevocational and early apprenticeships
Question was "How can we support the B&C toolbox and students can work more self paced - so to give help when the teachers are not available, first port of call?"

Want learners to focus on what they are doing in the toolbox - not replacing the content that already exists. Another concern was more shelf life and reusability of learning assets to support learners.

<a href="http://www.holmesglen.vic.edu.au">Holmesglen </a>worked in partnership with Nine Lanterns.
Model for what can be achieved through use of standards - can deliver other learning objects, can support other online content - transportability, considered metadata to be able to leverage assets in different ways and contexts.
- Enough support to sustain learner interaction with the resource, self-assessment, interactive, browsable, expandable and portable.
Were working with a toolbox that was developed by the same institute: Have not altered the toolbox but rather have added new files to add in extra functionality. Uses a different look and feel to highlight the separation.

<i>YOLA checks the page</i> to see whether there can be support offered for a page - Have tagged files in the toolbox with metadata about items on those pages that can have support offered - e.g. keywords that YOLA then responds to by offering help.
YOLA is meant to be able to be used as numeracy support outside of any toolbox - standalone as well.

In the window of YOLA then there is a small self assessment task offered and more assistance is also offered - takes learner into a separate learning session - toolbox still there in the background - self assessment tasks are interactive. These self-assessment tasks are then interlinked with cross-referencing to other numeracy concepts.

<i>Layout of the screen</i> is main content with a left hand side bar - not sure how this would work where left-hand navigation bars are used in other toolboxes. Question - is there a way that a toolbox can easily have the metadata added to it?
Uses a flash engine that can serve other objects with the correct metadata available. (Links back to idea of automation that Dr Evans Arthur raised this morning)
Tech - mapped to IMS standards and a custom thesaurus, IEEE learning object metadata.