Comments on: OpenEd: Week 11

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iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » Open Ed Spottings Week 11 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:25:46 +0000

[...] Stian says Just put it out there, we’ll have to refashion it anyway: I think that the current model of saying that “as long as the code is available, and it renders in a standard web browser”, it is reusable, is realistic. Just plugging in quizzes and sections into your course is unlikely to generate a course that is very pedagogical or interesting, it will take reworking and refashioning either way - and the important part is lowering the barriers to reuse, whether those barriers are intellectual property, or file formats, or lack of easy tools. It would also be good to make it easy for refashioned objects to link back to where they came from, so that people can “follow their trajectory” around the world. [...]

By: Rob Barton

Rob Barton — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:05:04 +0000

Sharing within a locked up environment doesn’t make much sense, does it?

By: OpenEd: week 12 - Commenting on Learning Objects at Anto’stuff

OpenEd: week 12 - Commenting on Learning Objects at Anto’stuff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:04:19 +0000

[...] Stian (on the e-learning paradigms and their consequences, e.g.. LO+LMS = formal/institutional); [...]

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:45:17 +0000

Good point, Stian! Actually the “LOs movement” is strictly connected with the LMSs. We can think to a “formal/institutional” paradigm of e-learning grounded on LOs and LMSs!
If we look at our course’s materials, we can observe that David didn’t offered us any “package”, any SCORM at all. In this case, simple documents, in various formats “glued” by plain HTML, have worked very well as course materials, while our posts and comments delivered via RSS, worked well too, like a LMS forum.. Of course, we can discuss if using a LMS would have added some highly important feature.
Indeed, this course was a wonderful example of how is possible to bridge formal/institutional and informal/personal learning over the Web and, by the way, it made no use of LOs, unless we refer to the broadest definition of LO…
Maybe if the informal/personal paradigm of e-learning (the so-called e-learning 2.0) grows, the importance of LOs (seen as technical pieces, packages usable in an LMS) will reduce…

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:05:14 +0000

Thank you for introducing the new software Moodle and ATutor. I think those are similar to the WebCT or Blackboard which we are using now for other classes, the difference is entering with password or not. But I would rather use blog or wiki which is very popular now.