Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Back to Thinkin' Returning to my former thoughts on to Dennis Steven's blog and his post Once again, the times are a changin'. We'll dive into the idea that Learning Objects can be used by museums, from the abstract of A Learning Objects Respository Management System for Museum Education, as a way to create shared educational resources. Austrailian Flexible Learning Framework has, what I take to be a good description of Learning Objects in general.  Here's a Google html version of their paper Your Future, Your Choice: Flexible Learning Futures. Looks like a good way to help make art education easier for museums.  It also looks like a good way for museums to make a bit of money: From the paper, under the section: Managing the sharing of Learning Objects Need 4  a process to protect the intellectual, moral and legal rights of the creators/owners of Learning Objects, ensure that creators/owners have some control over how the resources are used, and automate payment for use of the resources. Digital Rights Management Since there is concern on the part of the creators of Learning Objects for their rights as creators, I would think there will also be concern for the rights of the creators of artwork those Learning Objects are all about. I suppose if an artist created their own Learning Object for their piece, they would benifit from those rights as well.  (Not sure if that possiblity fits with the abstract at  Archives & Museum Informatics.) Obviously, I need to do more research on this stuff.... 6:50:55 AM