Good PowerPoint presentation (1.6 Mb) describing a series of approaches toward the creation of learning object repository networks in various projects, including COLIS and Jisc along with some Canadian initiatives, including POOL and BELLE-CAREO. The prsentation concludes with a set of slides describing the eduSource project, a national Canadian learning object repositories network. What I find interesting is (to paraphrase an email from Norm) an "emerging consensus" regarding the use of what IMS calls 'search intermediaries' (and what I have been calling "metadata repositories") that act as a middle ground between learning object repositories and e-learning applications. It won't be long now before we have some sort of content syndication available though learning marketplaces deploying learning objects through a repository network for e-learning on a wide scale (and history will record that it was "invented" by IMS in 2002).
Today: 6 Total: 90 [Direct link] [Share]
