Here is a quick recap of the days’ events (EdMedia LO Symposium), with some photos. I won’t provide too detailed a summary; for that, just go read the papers.
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Monthly Archives: June 2003
Draft Language for cc.edu
So, after a very long delay, here is the draft language of the Creative Commons license option for permitting only educational uses:
You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above except in satisfaction of both of the following conditions:(i) You do so in a manner that is directly related to and of material
assistance to the primary teaching and learning activities of an educational institution, and(ii) You do so solely for educational purposes.
An “educational institution” is a school or other organization primarily
and directly engaged in facilitating teaching and learning.
Rationale below. Please direct comments to the cc-education list.
LOs, Formal Languages, and Grammars
The notion of analogizing learning objects as words seems to be getting popular again. “Learning objects, formal languages, grammars, and instructional design”:http://opencontent.org/blog/docs/lo_grammar.pdf quickly summarizes my thinking on the topic and goes on to argue that formal grammars (ala linguistics or computer science) can be used to describe certain scenarios of learning objects use in a formal, unambiguous manner. (Of course, the class of use scenarios I find most interesting _can’t_ be described this way.) The paper suggests some other uses for formal languages in ID, including the development of standard metamodels for families of instructional design approaches.