By sleslie on October 31, 2004
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/godby/ Score one for the librarians! This article by Carol Jean Godby of the OCLC is an absolute bombshell and a must-read for folks working with learning object metadata standards. She follows up on works by Norm Friesen and Lorna Campbell that survey existing application profiles of the IEEE LOM with a view to answering [...]
Posted in Elearning Standards | Tagged LOM, metadata, standards
By sleslie on October 28, 2004
http://www.imsglobal.org/specificationdownload.cfm IMS has a re-designed website, and a fairly unwelcomed addition to getting access to the specification documents. As they state on the individual specification pages “HTML documents may be viewed online, but may not be printed without permission. To download an electronic copy for printing, please go to the specification download page.” I guess [...]
Posted in Elearning Standards | Tagged IMS, standards
By sleslie on October 28, 2004
http://www.x4l.org/video/index.shtml Derek Morrison at Auricle points to this video from CETIS called ‘Interoperability in Action’ which is well worth a watch. It takes you through a step by step scenario of a user adding an object to the Intrallect Intralibrary-driven JORUM repository, and then a second user accessing that object, extending an existing course, and [...]
Posted in Learning Objects | Tagged IMS, interoperability, Learning Objects
By sleslie on October 27, 2004
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ (then follow the ‘Blog Directory’ link – for whatever reason, MT is gawking on the actual URL) You’ve likely seen the UThink site before, the University of Minnesota’s MoveableType-based blogging site. But I wanted to point out the ‘Blog Directory’ sub-page on that site for the little things it does right to direct new [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged blogs, social_learning
By sleslie on October 26, 2004
http://www.easehistory.org One thing I love about publishing this blog is that (along with all the spam) it brings in scores of unsolicited pointers to really great educational resources. The latest one, sent in by Aparna Ramchandran, points to an amazingly timely site from Michigan State University that allows students to learn about US history, presidential [...]
Posted in Learning Objects | Tagged Learning Objects
By sleslie on October 26, 2004
http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewGrant/Rd3Less.html You may well see this a few times today – the Program in Course Redesign, a massive project across 30 partnering institutions to demonstrate how colleges and universities can redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements, has released the results of the Round III redesigns. This [...]
Posted in The Rest
By sleslie on October 21, 2004
http://www.ngf.org.uk/map/map.html While you will likely find some useful educational sites through this Flash-based app, I’m pointing to it more because of the very nifty interface. It may seem disconcerting at first, but stick with it for a few more seconds. Mousing over the filters on the right-hand side will let you actually see how many [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged elearning2.0
By sleslie on October 21, 2004
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/ From elearningpost comes mention of this useful article by Peter Merholz (some may remember him from ‘peterme‘ days, one of my earliest regular blog reads). D’Arcy, King and I had been trading emails a few weeks back on the value of emergent classifications systems like those seen in Flickr for use in learning object [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged folksonomy, tags
By sleslie on October 14, 2004
http://www.rsmart.com/index.php Another startup supporting specifically open source educational applications, this one based in Phoenix. Their initial offering is around the Open Source Portfolio Initiative product, but they promise to expand this to include uPortal and Sakai support. – SWL
Posted in The Rest | Tagged open_source
By sleslie on October 13, 2004
http://www.xplana.com/newsletter/newsletter.php I stumbled across this newsletter from the folks at Xplana through my referrer logs (apparently they are also a CMS company in addition to producing the Xplana blog). If you go through the section titled ‘Useful Research’ you’ll find many posts you have already read before, from many edtech blogs you read. Some of [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged Creative-Commons
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