Re: [school-discuss] Learning Objects

[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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