and Quality (11) Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards (9) Learn Trends 2008 (9) New Work and New Work Skills (8) Concept Worker (8) Online Conferences and In. . This end of year, I should create a few more longer term items to go on my To-Learn List. Temporary Learning Communities A new batch of Learning Communities emerged. for Learning Professionals Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 Test SCORM Courses with an LMS Request for Proposal (RFP) Samples Training Method Trends Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis SCORM Test Web 2.

is Dead. Community is King Now. In the past I’ve said I could care less whether or not learning objects were dead or alive. cause serious disruption of the dependent system or organization. If the content base from which we all teach and learn - the internet, textbooks. ? It is almost incomprehensible where we would be without content - at best, we would be reduced entirely to purely oral methods of teaching and learning. educational infrastructure. Education - as a discursive and social endeavour needs something trigger and carry our learning conversations. .

XML   > Thinking XML: Learning Objects Metadata XML knowledge management flourishes in learning technology initiatives. . A wide range of specifications, standards, and developments exist in the area, but at the center of things is the IEEE Learning Objects Metadata (LOM) specification. . A hotbed of activity has emerged around how XML content formats and XML-based metadata systems can support learning and instructional technology. In these initiatives the basic unit of interest is the learning object . A learning object is defined and described as follows by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Research . The topic: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning . (You can buy each of the three reports in this series for a mere $495.) About Gary. . Developed over 60 e-learning programs. Lives in Ontario, Canada. Started with Brandon Hall in November. "Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. . Pages and pictures and some sound and we turned the pages and took a test. This was "e-Learning 1.0". Gary has worked on three "Emerging e-Learning" reports Emerging E-Learning. . (This was the focus of todays talk). Emerging e-Learning Content: 45 different content formats Emerging e-Learning Services: 24 different services e-Learning Timeline: 1920s teaching machines, radio, filmstrips. . Fast Food Food prepared in small components -- small chunks cooked and rapid delivery.

August 12, 2005 Learning object metadata will be rewritten. Or maybe bypassed entirely. Its going to be rewritten because it has to be, because as we work with learning object metadata as it is currently incarnated, unless were working within a large monolithic entity like the U.S. military, learning object metadata will be found to be too rigid, too inflexible, too narrowly defined, to do the sorts of tghings that we want to do with it. this morning. Learning Object Metadata: Microformats So lets look at learning object metadata specifically. I am going to work from the assumption that you are all familiar with learning object metadata.

Out-of-the-can education, music, websites, dont meet the needs of people who want tailored resources. Learning objects. . However, the development of learning/information objects allows segments of information to be defined, tagged, and shared. response The response: learning object based, individualized education based on the needs of the marketplace it serves. content models, a third is added): Purchase content and learning objects from publishers (i.e.. institutions collaborate to create and share quality learning objects. Anyone can submit resources.

as the building blocks of learning objects . Learning objects consist of lesson-oriented “chunks” of self-study materials, learning. . Many academic technologists enthusiastically refer to content repositories of reusable learning objects to capture the open community vision of developing, storing, sharing, and improving digital content, and the learning objects that can be assembled from it. A digital content. of its learning objects and digital assets is tagged with metadata adhering to common standards such as IMS (instructional management system.