[Xerte] structuring LO's needing a topic hierarchy

[Alan Duncan]

Separating content (on pages) and navigation is a sound approach. Ultimately
that would mean you could choose navigation and sub navigation models
(menus, slide shows, etc ) and then add individual pages with content
needed, video, images with hotspots etc

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Do we need a router template? Think of it as a menu to other LOs - you'd
> configure it by adding options, with a URL for each piece launched. It
> wouldn't be too hard to do.
>
> A router template would present choices for the user to determine where to
> go next, and could present those choices in a number of ways A simple list,
> hotspots, radio buttons for example. The user navigates to the router, makes
> a choice and goes either to another instance of the router, with further
> options, or to a LO. All the LOs pages are therefore leaf pages. You can
> then nest content to n levels.
>
> Then there probably needs to be someway back to the launching router from
> the LO (although the browser's 'back' button would do this - if visible).
>
> I think this might make the navigation cleaner for the user than trying to
> mix navigation AND content in LOs themselves, and seperating content from
> navigation seems a sensible thing to do,
>
> J
>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Alan Duncan
> *Sent:* Sat 24/04/2010 12:33
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] structuring LO's needing a topic hierarchy
>
>   Sorry this is a bit long
>
> I am intending to use xerte to present on-line leaning for a software
> application (First session next week actually). The LO's will be usd for
> initial training and will also serve as the business process help system for
> users who have forgotten how to do something. Separate learning objects will
> be created for each of the business processes and some sub processes
> depending on the level of complexity or detail the process needs (and
> managed at the LO level by Moodle or some other LMS to allow practical
> learning tasks and competency tests to be available for each process and
> fully managed etc.
> The overall question is how to (quickly) set up a 2 or 3 level hierarchy
> with different page types at the leaf level
> An example of part of the first LO is as follows
>
> Topic 2 – biscoPro Screen
>
>        Main Screen
>
> Notes + Image = main screen
>
>
>
>  Notes
>
>
>
>  Main List
>
> Notes + Image = mainlist
>
>
>
>  Notes + Image = mainlist
>
>
>
>  Notes = usage
>
>
>
>  Main Tool Bar
>
> My Diary
>
> My Desktop
>
> Notes + Images?
>
> Diary (Old)
>
> Notes + Images?
>
> Show Reminders
>
> Notes + Images?
>
> Close Reminders
>
> Notes + Image?
>
> Reports
>
> A list of 10, or more
>
> Separate Topic
>
> Search
>
> Search Form notes + image
>
> Separate topic Direct Link?
> Other topics are
> Topic 4 Tree View
> Topic 5 Button Bar more details on special buttons e.g $Cost
> Topic 6 Glides/Splitters
> Topic 7 Right Click Menu
> Topic 8 Grid View
> Topic 9 Search
> Topic 10 Reports (*Could easily be another LO)
> How the topic is used
> Ideally the user will go straight to the topic of interest and be able to
> go back and forward between subtopics where there is no implied sequence
>
> Tab navigator looks the most suitable because the user can tab to what they
> want without clicking thourgh a sequence of pages that are not relevant to
> the specific topic the user wants to view. At the same time they can still
> see the other sub topics in the group
>
> However this is not a single hierarchy it has
>
>    1.
>
>    the list of topics (a Menu Page?)
>    2.
>
>    the first level sub topic
>    3.
>
>    the second level sub topic
>
> 1 What is the best way to implement with a 3 -level hierarchy (more than
> that will probably confound the user) e.g a tabbed navigator with a tabbed
> navigator as one of the “pages'
>
> 2 There is a practical limitation on the number of tabs that can fit on a
> single page. What is the best way to cope with the 10 sub topics in the tool
> bar topic for example?
>
> 3 It is possible an leaf (sub topic) would need to use a slide show,
> annotated page, or even another navigator etc. Ideally any leaf level item
> could use any existing page wizard plus maybe some new ones that need to be
> created
>
> 4 What is the best way to integrate the different page types into one of
> the navigator page wizards (especially the Tabbed Navigator or the Routed
> Tab Navigator
> 5 what is the best way to direct link fronm within a tabbed lead page to
> another topic ( a GOTO!)
>
> Suggestions most welcome as I need to produce something really fast (apart
> from a menu page it looks like everything needed is there)
>
> I thnk this sort of relates to the mention of pedagogical models that was
> raised on one of the Friday forums a while back
>
> Regards
> Alan Duncan
>
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