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NSDL Funding Deadline

April 8, 2003 by opencontent

Only a few weeks left to get applications put together for the NSF’s National STEM [Science Technology Engineering & Mathematics] Digital Library or “NSDL Program”:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03530/nsf03530.htm. This is a great program which funds a variety of learning objects-related programs, like our “Instructional Architect”:http://ia.usu.edu/

A SourceForge for Open Educational Content Development

April 3, 2003 by opencontent

So today I can finally be more specific. “The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation”:http://www.hewlett.org/ and the “Center for the Public Domain”:http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/ have given me the green light to hold an initial meeting to discuss the establishment of some infrastructure that will support the distributed, collaborative development of open educational content.

Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities

April 3, 2003 by opencontent

“Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities”:https://opencontent.org/docs/lo_do.pdf is an eight page piece cataloging what I believe to be some of the largest obstacles to the successful use of learning object and some of the biggest opportunities for educational innovation using learning objects.