Learning Design Repositories – Structure Ontology and Processes

We summarize here the results of a project called IDLD: Implementation and Deployment of the Learning Design specification. The main product of the IDLD project is a portal that provides a suite of tools and methodological aids to help build IMS-LD compliant learning designs. In this paper, we focus on a practical approach to build and extend a repository of learning designs. We present a more specific process where tools in the portal serve to extend the repository by building LD patterns extracted from an actual course, recomposing them into new patterns and new courses. We present a LOM-based LD classification scheme to help structure the repository. Finally, we present part of an ontology to improve the structure, and hopefully the usefulness, of the LD repository