Monday, March 14, 2005

The Problem with Learning Objects in Courses for the Military. Some discussion of the Susan Smith Nash article over the weekend. Albert Ip writes, "That is the fundamental problem in finding things. If a repository claims to contain everything, it contains nothing useful" because different metadata would be required for different types of objects. And D'Arcy Norman comments, "Reusability is pretty much a fallacy, especially when attempted with highly complex “learning objects” like websites, powerpoints, etc." By Albert Ip, Random Walk in E-Learning, March 13, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:30:20 PM      Google It!.

The Ideal Publisher's Digital Content Package for 2005-2006? -- A Portable Learning Environment. not entirely sure what to make of this; interesting to see if it causes a ripple [Edubloggers Links Feed] 11:20:23 PM      Google It!.

The Blind Fragging the Blind. If you need to improve your hand-to-ear coordination, you can take advantage of a growing library of computer games for the blind, including audio versions of Quake and Doom. By David Cohn. [Wired News] 2:29:23 PM      Google It!.