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May 2005
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FLOSSE Posse – Is the "Learning Objects" King Naked?
http://flosse.dicole.org/?item= learning-objects-is-the-king-naked <rant> Over on on the Flosse Posse weblog, Teemu Leinonen has posted a bit of a rant on the term “learning object.” I’m glad someone stepped up and said it. I agree, let’s kill off the word “learning object” and while we are at it, let’s throw “learning object repository” on the funeral [...]
Educause Quarterly Article: Changing Course Management Systems
http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm05/eqm05210.asp This is one of those articles that ranks in the “could have been important but ends up being too anecdotal” category. The authors are right in pointing to course conversion as both a potential cost issue and huge concern in switching CMS. All one has to do is ask a collection of system administrators [...]
Educause Article – A Capabilities Approach for the Next-Generation CMS
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm0533.asp I’m sure lots of those disenchanted with the current crop of CMS will enjoy reading this piece by Van Weigel. Weigel suugests another approach to envisioning what the next-generation CMS might look like; what’s missing for me (and to be fair, this is just a chapter length piece, so it’s unfair to expect this [...]
Open Source Means Just That
Those who know me personally know that the past year was a bit of an uphill struggle. In addition to battling my Crohn’s disease last year, I was the lead on a project to implement a learning object repository here in B.C. based on some code another university had created. The partnership did not work [...]
TV-B-Gone
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/755e/ Spotted from an ad in sourceforge, this little device lets you turn off any TV remotely. An “educational technology?” Depends on your perspective. A “useful technology?” Well, I travel down to the States a fair bit, and increasingly the TVs in airport lounges are tuned to Fox News. ‘Nuff said? Maybe they could just [...]
LAMS as a CMS
http://blogs.nitle.org/mane/2005/05/ lams_a_new_open_source_cms.html I found this short post by Bryan Alexander at the MANE IT Network personally really useful – I’ve known about LAMS for quite a while, but had never heard it described as a “CMS.” My first reaction was – oh that’s just wrong, it’s an “e-learning design tool” (oh the sophistry of labels!). [...]
A-HEC Survey on Open Source
http://www.a-hec.org/media/ files/A-HEC_os_survey_report_050305.pdf Too bad there weren’t more respondents (79 does not a huge sample make) but this survey from the Association for Higher Education Competitiveness presents at least some interesting insight into changing attitudes towards open source. What do we learn – Sakai has a good marketing campaign (at least in terms of name brand [...]
Report Assessing the Learning Objects, Models and Frameworks Developed by The Le@rning Federation
http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/sitefiles/ assets/docs/muirhead_haughey_0105.pdf Someone brought up this report by two Canadians, Bill Muirhead and Margret Haughey, to me on a phone call yesterday, and try as I might I couldn’t remember having read it when it came out this past January. A subsequent google and search of blogs similarly found no mention, which surprise me considering [...]
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