An Interview with Robert Thieverge
Norm Friesen,
CanCore,
Nov 19, 2005
Interview with Robert Thivierge, who is the President of the E-Learning Standards Advisory Council of Canada (a French version is also available), who is critical of the current state of content sharing. "It's a sort of an impoverished, throw-away culture. Professors develop their learning materials, in some case at great expense, and they and their students are often the only ones to use these resources. With multimedia, and with more complex development technologies, learning material becomes more and more sophisticated, more and more costly to develop. It makes no sense." I agree - but wonder whether the emphasis based on standards, rather than, say, open content and file sharing, is the right way to go. Not to say that we don't need standards (or, as I would rather say, 'protocols' - we need to invest in a language of access, rather than compliance). But if you just build up standards and leave the existing system intact, well then, you have nothing more than the existing system (but with more paperwork). An MP3 of the interview is also available.
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