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LO-blog community meeting

March 28, 2003 by opencontent

Let’s pretend that a major foundation that is interested in the intersection of learning objects and online community had approached me about sponsoring a meeting of people with said interest, and I had funding to bring 12 or so people together for a multi-day summit this summer to discuss the state of the art and … Read more

H2O everywhere, but wither FLE3?

March 28, 2003 by opencontent

“H2O”:http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/index.jsp is a new discussion system out of Harvard that provides scaffolding that overcomes many of the traditional complaints about threaded discussion activities in formal courses. Now if only they supported scaffolds for arbitrary discourse grammars like “FLE3”:http://fle3.uiah.fi/ we could get somewhere…

LOs, Libraries, and CPAN

March 27, 2003 by opencontent

It occured to me today that learning objects, and the “EduCommons”:http://educommons.org/ project in particular, could learn some interesting lessons from libraries and CPAN.