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Re: [school-discuss] Learning Objects
Hey Les,
What authoring tools can be used?
David
Quoting Les Richardson <les@celery.richtech.ca>:
> Please have a look at the learning object work being done in Alberta,
> Canada with CAREO and ALOHA projects. Mostly open source based
> stuff. Aloha has other possible uses as well. Looks like a lot of OS10
> stuff, as well.
>
> More work is also being done in New Brunswick, but the name of the project
> escapes me currently. They just did a learning object metadata
> presentation for educators here in Saskatchewan.
>
> Les Richardson
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Anna Johnson wrote:
>
> > Yes, Macromedia technology is closed and most of the
> > technology used to create learning objects is
> > too....However, the content repositories to store,
> > search, and reuse the learning objects, could be
> > developed using open-source technologies. In fact,
> > there's a good opportunity to develop an open-source
> > learning object repository. To my knowledge, I don't
> > know of any that exisist proprietary or otherwise. But
> > as more learning objects are developed....there will
> > be a huge need to store and sort all of them so they
> > can be reused.
> >
> >
> > --- Massimiliano Mirra <mmirra@libero.it> wrote:
> > > Anna Johnson <anna_m_johnson@yahoo.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Learning Objects are basically chunks of reusable
> > > > digital content that can be used to create a
> > > lesson or
> > > > course, including assessment.
> > > >
> > > > For more info about learning objects, visit
> > > > Macromedia. The site includes sample assets so
> > > that
> > >
> > > Thanks, Anna.
> > >
> > > I gather the Macromedia technology is closed,
> > > proprietary, and aimed
> > > at Windows and MacIntosh platforms, but the concepts
> > > themselves have
> > > nothing to do with platforms. As for
> > > implementation, it looks like
> > > slides in pills and on steroids. I've found this
> > > page useful to get
> > > an understanding about the `what' rather than the
> > > `how':
> > >
> > > http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_what.html
> > >
> > > (I didn't get an overall nice impression. But I
> > > barely more than
> > > glanced at the thing.)
> > >
> >
> >
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