Digital Object Rant - Show them the DOR ;o) Right, have just about had enough of learning objects, standardisation, adoption, digital object management and all this waffle and stress about something that (a.) will evolve out of needs and (b.) won't evolve into what the 'needs pushers' are trying to shift us!
Funniest thing I reckon in most universities is this idea that 'hey, we have a ton of sharable digital learning objects' because, quite simply, IT'S WRONG. Universities don't have lots of sharable digital objects, they have some, they also have digital content repositories (called 'libraries') which can store them quite easily, thankyouverymuch. What universities do have is an enormous amount of tacit knowledge, context specific resources and bloody good researchers and teachers. Help them do their jobs better (what they actually 'do' rather than what they 'get' from us) and you're onto something.
So... the course I've just written is metatagged, SCORM compliant, stored in the corporate digital object management system... hey, I even kept to the style guide ;o)... and guess what, I'm the only person who can really use it... who else would want to???
If you want sharable content, go get a TEXTBOOK... it's better written for multiple audiences, faaaaaaaar better published, cheaper than just me doing it, easily updatable, copyright cleared and, well, MUCH MUCH EASIER FOR EXACTLY THE SAME OR BETTER OUTCOME!
Which isn't to say that you should, howabout putting all that cash and time into teaching and learning on an individual and group level... not trying to build a wonder of the world for a small pad in the bush.
2:53:19 PM 
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