Good summary that doesn't waver from the necessary questions facing the CORDRA initiative, "an open, standards-based model for how to design and implement software systems for the purposes of discovery, sharing and reuse of learning content through the establishment of interoperable federations of learning content repositories." Questions like: what will this infrastructure provide that Google doesn't? Why is querying better than harvesting? Who guarantees authenticity, who is responsible for tasks such as archiving and quality control? What about digital rights management? From where I sit (and note that proponents of CORDRA will disagree with this interpretation), the primary motivation for a system such as CORDRA is control and the result will be a closed system, a system that may work well for the U.S. military, but which will work against the idea of providing learning for all.
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