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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More OSS Community Research
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.
The Use is the Context
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 … Read more