... can do this for an artificial world, why can't we do this in the real world adapted to learning>Objectives- Open to all ... ?Function of middleware (I hope that the slides are available...)- Tie together tools that exist in open source and make ... rating tools- ID Students and instructors and guides(Again - I wish I had the slides)All of this either open source tools or ... invent.API Interfaces- Tools for voice and chat exist as standardized pluging.- PandoraBot (open source)- CAD tools ... can adapt yet.Institutional challenges- open source? Intellectual property- Privacy management- Management of ...

A reader from another country has asked me about Learning Object Tools. I asked him to clarify what they meant and the response was:Learning Object Tools are those that allow you to create, edit and manage learning objects.There is also a bit of language barrier. I pointed them at the Wikipedia article - Learning Object. It cites quite a few repositories and briefly mentions "Burrokeet is an Open Source Software tool that assists in the creation of Learning Objects from ... at SCORM / SCOs.But it got me to thinking that I've really not looked at Learning Objects in quite a while - and I've ...

... commercial product to do this. But I'm sure this is something we will begin to see in the open source products soon as well. The Learning Object proponents have been trying this for years and I haven't really seen it work effectively. I'm guessing each wiki page is like a learning object that is tagged. If you select a tag then you get all of the content ... . It smells a lot like trying to put the round peg in the old square hole. Is informal/collaborative learning ...

... hand how easy it was to work with others to share assets and learning objects and to work together on creating and maintaining materials. Good online tools include Atlantic Link and Mohive - mind you, they're not cheap. For an open source alternative, try EXE.Of course, if it isn't an e-learning tutorial you're after, then:for simple HTML content I'd use ... The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools ... course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after, including ...