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Learning Object Community Meeting. David Wiley over at reusability.org is making up a guest list for a meeting to discuss the intersection between reusable learning objects and community. He's asked for nominations for the meeting. The rules are to list 5 people who should attend other then yourself. Hmm, only 5 people, eh? Who would be the 5 people I'd most like to meet? In no particular order... Stephen Downes David Carter-Tod Sebastian Fiedler Andy Powell and D'Arcy Norman There are of course loads of other people including Raymond Yee, Ben Toth, Oliver Wrede, George Siemens, Sébastien Paquet who are deep thinkers in this area and of course I'd love to have the chance to meet all of them at a meeting like this this, too. Who would be on your list? [David Davies' Weblog] 2:20:21 PM 
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New book - Reusing Online Resources. OK, so anyone else seen this book yet? I picked up a copy at my local bookstore at the weekend. Nothing particulalry new in the book though it's a useful collection of articles so as such it makes a handy reference. The collected articles have a strong UK bias which makes a change. There are 19 chapters under the broad headings:
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CETIS report on the release of the RELOAD metadata editor. "One issue that keeps popping up in debates about learning objects is the metadata question; how are educators supposed to make an interoperable description of a learning object that will allow it to be found by others? The Reload elarning tool development project decided to attack that problem before any others, with the first results already appearing." Check out the RELOAD web site: http://www.reload.ac.uk/ There's even a Mac OS X installer. Yay! [David Davies' Weblog] 2:18:59 PM
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Learning Object Contextualization. This piece on learning object contextualization was in part triggered by reading David Wiley's recent paper "Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities" but also because I wanted to get down some of the work we've been doing in this area in our curriculum. The piece is illustrated by examples from our medical undergraduate programme and in particular our VLE. [David Davies' Weblog] 2:18:26 PM
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Learning Objects in Motion. This short piece in the latest Syllabus magazine contains a useful introduction to syndicating learning objects using RSS. Typically though it misses some of the crucial prior art in this area. Given that this working example I put together to not only syndicate multiple choice questions using RSS 0.91 but also to perform cross-institutional search for RLOs was 2 years ago I guess they can be excused for missing it? [David Davies' Weblog] 2:13:58 PM
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Reusable learning objects and RSS autodiscovery. I had an idea that if RSS is such an obvious format to use for reusable learning object (RLO) syndication then why not use RSS autodiscovery? Put simply, if a web page that contains RLOs has an RSS autodiscovery header item then all of the objects on that page become discoverable by automated systems such as RSS news readers, auto-subscribe bookmarklets and more importantly, RLO aggregators. So I made a demonstration page. Pages such as this backed by a content management system would make the insertion of the RSS link automatic thereby making resource discovery and the reuse of learning objects fairly painless. [David Davies' Weblog] 2:12:07 PM
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