Re: [school-discuss] Learning Objects

[Martin Dougiamas <martin@dougiamas.com>]

Some years ago I got all excited about IMS and learning objects.
As a programmer I could really see the potential, and would have
agreed fully with the statement above.  We could build courses
like lego and "let em go" - what a time saver!

Now, as I teach more and learn more online, I find I use fewer
resources and use an increasing amount of structured collaboration
between people in order to stimulate really meaningful learning
(as opposed to page turning).  It's more work but ultimately
much more effective.  SCORM and some of the other IMS standards
are looking less and less relevant to this kind of teaching.

I'm not writing SCORM off - the idea of learning objects has
plenty of uses in niche areas - I'm just saying be wary of this
stuff as a universal panacea.  As the following article points
out, remember CORBA?

http://www.onlinelearningmag.com/onlinelearning/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1526769


David Bucknell wrote:
> Dear Schoolforgers and Open Source School writers,
> 
> I'm deep in the middle of last minute writing for two courses and have come 
> across this: http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/naweb/column000523.htm
> 
> I think it's _well_ worth a read. Some of you doing eduml and similar schemes 
> will better judges of the value of this, but it seems quite far along to me. 
> See what you all think. Seems like one more person/group we should recruit, no?
> 
> David
> 

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