By Stephen Downes
March 12, 2005
The Problem with Learning Objects in Courses
for the Military
Even if they're not useful
for universities, learning objects are good for the
military, right? Well maybe not, according to this author,
who raises the following concerns: "Hard to figure out how
to use them; hard to find the 'object' you need; if they
are a link to an object on someone's website, the link
could be dead, if you're using it in CD-ROM or for
PDA-delivery, they can be useless; not centrally housed.
The repositories do not refer to each other and do not
cross-catalogue; there is redundancy, inconsistency, and
they are often out of date; no standardization." By Susan
Smith Nash, XplanaZine, March 12, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
A
Wealth of Knowledge Free to the World: JHSPH
OpenCourseWare
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health has announced the initial phase of
its pilot OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. Good stuff. By
Various Authors, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, March, 2005
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Networks of the Australian Flexible Learning
Community 2005
By email today: "The
[Australian Flexible Learning Community] Community website
will be closing down on 31 March 2005 to mark the
transition to the new Networks of the Australian Flexible
Learning Community project which is part of the 2005
Australian Flexible Learning Framework." By Unknown,
Australian Flexible Learning Network, February 22, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
Microsoft to Buy Groove Networks
Groove had its problems but it was still far ahead of
anything Microsoft ever produced. That makes Microsoft's
acquisition a good move for both companies. If Microsoft is
smart, they will integrate Groove's functionality into the
Windows operating system (or at the very least, make it an
integrated application, like Word or PowerPoint). Another
category killer, if they can hold off the antitrust
attorneys (and there's no reason to believe they couldn't).
By Martin LaMonica, ZD Net, March 10, 2005
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Gnews2RSS at VoidStar.com
A PHP
script that converts Google News to RSS. If Google
complains, tell them to put it in one of the links Google
Toolbar produces. By Julian Bond, VoidStar, March, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect]
A New Red Scare
I will have much
more to say about this story line at a future date (there
is the Wall Street Journal article to consider, the
Chronicle article, and more) but probably not in this
forum. But for now, this item is noted and logged. What I
will say here is that this is a deliberate and organized
political campaign targeted at higher education and that
academics should be concerned. More
here. By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, March 7, 2005
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