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Avoiding the great train wreck: standardizing the architecture for online curricula
1Office of Educational Development and Research, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, USA. chris-candler@ouhsc.edu
Summary
Medical schools create many online learning materials, but lack of standards hinders sharing and reuse. The Instructional Management Systems (IMS) specification offers a solution for a common architecture in online education.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education Technology
- Digital Learning Environments
Background:
- The proliferation of online curricular materials in medical schools is driven by web technologies.
- Diverse authoring tools lead to dissimilar architectures, creating information silos.
- Lack of universal standards impedes management, reuse, and sharing of educational resources.
Purpose of the Study:
- To address the challenges of managing and sharing online educational materials in medical schools.
- To advocate for standardized, object-oriented architecture for online learning resources.
- To highlight the potential benefits of thoughtful planning and reuse of digital content.
Main Methods:
- Review of existing online educational resource creation and management practices in medical schools.
- Identification of limitations due to diverse authoring tools and lack of interoperability.
- Introduction of the Instructional Management Systems (IMS) specification as a proposed global standard.
Main Results:
- Existing systems result in "information islands" that are difficult to manage, reuse, or share.
- Standardized architecture can improve consistency, resource discovery, content creation, and integration of sciences.
- The IMS specification provides a common architecture for content management and delivery.
Conclusions:
- A standardized, object-oriented architecture is crucial for effective online medical education.
- The IMS specification offers a promising solution for interoperability and resource sharing.
- Adoption of IMS can enhance the consistency, efficiency, and integration of online medical curricula.
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