So I’m trying to draw some colleagues into the instructional technology blogosphere and had to write up a primer for folks who are new to the area… like I was a month or two ago. So, as long as I had to write it, I figured I’d throw it up on autounfocus.
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Monthly Archive for April, 2003
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In the recent posts that have been going around about research on open source software communities, I haven’t seen anyone point to the motherlode yet.. “MIT’s Free / Open Source Research Community”:http://opensource.mit.edu/ It’s filled with good papers (including some graduate theses) about the how’s and why’s of the groups that make OSS work.
So “D’Arcy”:http://commons.ucalgary.ca/weblogs/dnorman/000089.html, “Brian”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/archives/000082.html, and “Alan”:http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/lora/ have been talking about using Trackback to contextualize learning objects. This is truly excellent! One of the goals of the “Instructional Architect”:http://ia.usu.edu/ was to facilitate automated recommendations (aka collaborative filtering) of learning objects, i.e., “people who used this learning object also used these other three.” However, we were only capable of carrying out these recommendations for content bundles authored within IA itself. Trackback would allow recommendations of LOs from arbitrary collections, so long as there were both in-bound and out-bound links on the LO’s homepage. It just keeps getting tastier and tastier…
Something Stephen said in a recent post has had me thinking quite a bit lately (and I’m too lazy to go find the post again now, doubtless someone will point it out in the comments). Stephen commented that he was “glad to see David [me] reaching out to the learning objects community.” It was such an interesting comment because I considered myself deeply entrenched in the learning objects community.
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Something Stephen said in a recent post has had me thinking quite a bit lately (and I’m too lazy to go find the post again now, doubtless someone will point it out in the comments). Stephen commented that he was “glad to see David [me] reaching out to the learning objects community.” It was such an interesting comment because I considered myself deeply entrenched in the learning objects community.
Continue reading ‘Will the “real” community please stand up?’
