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WCET/Edutools LOR Comparative Research Released. http://edutools.info/lor/final_report.doc and
http://edutools.info/lor/final_reviews.xls
Regular readers will know that one of my two jobs is working with
the folks at the Western Cooperative on Educational Telecommunications (WCET) on the Edutools
project to compare course management systems. In fact I just returns
from their annual conference, this year held in San Antonio, Texas,
which will be the basis for a few posts.
A few months back I wrote
about a project we did last spring with 4 state systems to compare
existing Learning Object Repository software. Well finally we have
released these findings to the public (part of the agreement was that
the partners had exclusive use for 6 months before we published the
results).
The final report (co-authored by fellow bloggers Bruce Landon and Brian Lamb, as well as Russ Poulin from WCET) is now available. Probably of more interest is the actual side-by-side comparison of 6 products.
I would be very interested in any feedback people had on the actual
comparative framework we employed, that is, the features and their
groupings on which we reviewed the software. We did base it on a bunch
of different LOR architecture and use case documents folks have shared
on the web, and I used it in our own LOR project here in BC as the
basis for our initial requirements set, so I think it stands up pretty
well, but I am always interested in hearing whether others think it
presents a valid framework for comparison. It shoud be noted that these
reviews are now 6 months old, and these products have been rapidly
evolving, so caveat emptor. - SWL [EdTechPost]
11:08:39 PM  Google It!.
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NLII Strategic Plan. The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative
(NLII) maps out a new strategy. Some interesting remarks:
"Another challenge is to help ourselves—and our
institutions—better understand and respond to the new
generation of students entering our campuses. They adopt
technologies that are not part of our traditional arsenal
(e.g., wikipediae, blogs, IM, social networking sites,
etc.) and they use them in ways that are detached from the
processes of the academy. We provide little if no
constructive context for them to use these technologies to
improve learning, and so they use them to amuse
themselves." A little patronizing, but at least
they're heading in the right direction. By Various
Authors, NLII, December 1, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
9:11:55 AM Google It!.
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Hacking the Phone Platform. Some of the impact of last week's Nokia mobile
phone hack continue to resopnate. But in a good way. Ross
Mayfield quotes Douglas Rushkoff, who quotes Nokia's Marko
Ahtisaari: "personalization has an intense value and
people are willing to pay for it." Ring tones, for
example, which began as another hack. "Mass
customization and personalization is so valuable that users
as developers take it on themselves. A product splinters
into a thousand derivatives... Each is an option, where the
option didn't exist before." By Ross Mayfield, Ross
Mayfield's Weblog, November 25, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
8:47:50 AM Google It!.
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