Friday, May 21, 2004

Guidelines for Authors of Learning Objects I'm re-posting this information from D'Arcy Norman's weblog; it points to a useful 32 page pdf document available from the New Media Consortium. I've referred to resources from NMC before; they provide some excellent papers and online services, including a LO Repository Directory. The document is freely available under a Creative Commons license: "This practitioner-focused monograph, authored by Rachel Smith and produced with sponsorship from McGraw-Hill, provides straightforward suggestions and tips for authors of learning objects. Included topics are the range and types of learning objects, pedagogical and design considerations, as well as discussions of standards, metadata, interoperability, and reusability." I may have more comments about the monograph after I have time to study it carefully. JH _____ Rachel Smith, with the New Media Consortium, has just released an excellent set of guidelines for authors of learning objects. It's the first document I've seen that focuses more on the educational side of things, rather than the technical. This approach is much needed, since the real implications of this stuff are not technical at all... And, her flexible learning-object-is-whatever-it-needs-to-be-as-long-as-it's-educational operational definition of "learning object" works for me, too. Nicely done, Rachel! And you probably win the "How many times can you use the phrase Learning Objects in a single document?" award for 2004. ;-) [D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog] 6:07:32 AM    COMMENT []