Information Architecture

Information Architecture focuses on helping users to find their way around e-learning content quickly and easily. We focus on taking your existing information, your user's needs, and the goals of the organization in constructing a learning portal. Our emphasis on searching, navigation, and indexing and labelling learning objects helps end-users find their information more efficiently and provides the architecture to facilitate management of your curriculum.

Metadata
Integrating Metadata helps to create a standard, uniform way of labelling learning objects so they can be discovered, referenced and used. It provides an abstract mechanism to associate high-level information about an object so that external systems can access it. Information about learning objects helps in making instructional decisions by:

• Helping users to define characteristics
• Helping users discover through searching
• Enabling a common method of reference

We work with our clients to integrate a metadata model. The IMS metadata schema, for instance, currently has 86 elements and 19 core elements that are organized into nine different categories, which are:

• General: Information on Learning Objects as a Whole
• Lifecycle: History and Current State of the Resource
• Meta-metadata: Features of the Description vs. the Resource
• Technical: Technical Features of the Learning Object
• Educational: Educational Features of the Learning Object
• Rights: Conditions of Use of the Learning Resource
• Relation: The Resource in Relation to Other Objects
• Annotation: Comments on the Educational Use