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February 2004
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The Gateway to Educational Materials: An Evaluation Study (Year 4)
http://www.geminfo.org/Evaluation/Fitzgerald_03.06.pdf Before there were ‘learning object repositories,’ educators were already trying to catalogue instructionally useful Internet resources in ‘subject-based catalogues’ or gateways. In the K-12 world, one of the more significant of these has been the Gateway to Educational Materials, or GEM. This report, from last June, evaluates the successfulness of the GEM project and [...]
A Short Course on Structured Course Development, Learning Objects, and E-Learning Standards
http://careo.prn.bc.ca/losc/losccourse.html From Gerry Paille and his team (a partnership of BC School District #60, Open School BC and the Open Learning Agency/BC Open Univeristy to develop a ‘CANCORE-compliant’ resource network that will house materials from some of their older resource collections) comes this useful 3 module course on “using a structured language such as Standard [...]
.LRN – fairly robust open source course management system
http://dotlrn.mit.edu/ There’s been a fair bit of buzz, and rightly so, for a few of the open source CMS systems out there; both Moodle and ATutor have come a long way and are increasingly looking like viable options for those wanting to go the open source route. There’s another open source CMS that has been [...]
Learning Object Repository *Software*
http://www.edtechpost.ca/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/EdTechPost/ LearningObjectRepositorySoftware There’s a lot of lists of learning object repositories around – to name but a few good ones, there’s the database of repositories that the good folks at the ADL Co-Lab have recently released, Joe Hart’s EduResource portal is fast becoming an authoritative resource on the topic and there’s Patricia McGee’s collection done [...]
The Bad News and The Good News
Two weeks without a post deserves some explanation, and the reasons for my recent absence are both not so good and really great. First the not so good news – I just got out of hospital after another bout with Crohn’s Disease. I luckily managed to escape the surgeon’s knife for now (having had the [...]
COLIS ODRL METADATA PROFILE
http://www.iprsystems.com/COLIS/COLIS-ODRL-Profile-06.pdf Out of the Australian-based COLIS project was produced this metadata profile for using ODRL to express the rights for learning objects in IMS Content Packages. This was originally published about 18 months ago, but still seems useful, and as far as I can tell hasn’t been supplanted. The COLIS Project (renamed and extended as [...]
Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/ gadd/09gadd.html#Gadd-2003f This interesting paper details the efforts of the RoMEO project to land on, amongst other things, a digital rights schema to enable self-archiving of academic research papers in the U.K. What’s interesting is that while they found that either the Creative Commons or ODRL could possibly fit their needs, the problem with the [...]
Providing Online Resources To Online Learning Environments
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/portole/index.htm Site for the “Providing Online Resources To Online Learning Environments (PORTOLE)” project, which ended July 2003. This UK-based project aimed to help incorporate more library resources and tools into ‘virtual learning environments.’ Of particular interest to me was the CROSsearch prototype, which provides a single search interface to a number of library catalogues, learning [...]
U.N. report says open source produces better software
http://www.opensector.org/1075490138 From OpenSector comes news of the U.N. report, “E-Commerce and Development Report 2003″ which contains a chapter that supports many of the canonical arguments for why open source projects produce better software than proprietary projects. Another good URL to have in your pocket when the boss asks you why you decided to deploy Linux [...]
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