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It's Official! Mark Is Headed to a New/Old Job

That's right folks, yours truly is departing the MASIE Center and returning to Washington D.C. to work with my old buddies at Booz Allen Hamilton and some other opportunities that I can't exactly talk about right now but which I'll happily talk about when they firm up a bit more.

Let me just pause right there and say something to Elliott Masie. I want to say thank you. Thanks for all the help you provided in my family's not-so-easy re-location to Saratoga Springs. You really went above and beyond the call there. I also want to say thanks for such a great learning opportunity. Working at the MASIE Center and watching Elliott and his tremendous team build a new conference like Learning 2005 from the ground up was an invaluable experience. I also wanted to thank Elliott for trying to teach me to better see things from other people's viewpoints. I wasn't always successful in that endeavor but that was my fault and not Elliott's and I want to apologize if that particular shortcoming ever caused you (Elliott) concern - that was never my intent I assure you.

Elliott was also willing to try things that I brought to him like Wikis, virtual worlds and some of the learning-focused open source  projects.  I would encourage everyone who hasn't to visit the Learning Wiki, which was originally created for Learning 2005 but which has already extended far beyond that conference. So, thanks Elliott for the experience and the learning - I'm better because of it.

There you have it...new job..new chapter in life... but the blog will remain (although I am looking at some cool new ways to liven up the old joint!). Thanks for reading and keep on learning!

Value Added Training: Reusable Learning Objects

from the U.S. Navy

Story Number: NNS040722-10
Release Date: 7/22/2004 4:30:00 PM

From Center for Cryptology Public Affairs

PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Center for Cryptology (CC) Corry Station completed the first cryptology course under the Revolution in Navy Training’s Reusable Learning Object (RLO) format in June. The course will provide initial skill training for Sailors entering the cryptologic technician technical (CTT) rating.

The revised training materials meet the standards specified by the shareable content object reference model (SCORM), which addresses interoperability, accessibility, and reusability of learning content. This means the RLOs operate interchangeably with different tool sets and platforms, can be accessed from one or many remote locations (such as Navy eLearning via Navy Knowledge Online) and delivered to other locations, and are flexible enough to be used in multiple applications.

July 2004 Issue of Performance Express from ISPI

First article: Measurement: It starts in the beginning by Judith Hale

Now here is a nice article to find about your own company...

A Business Built for Washington
By Steven Pearlstein
Friday, May 21, 2004; Page E01
If you were asked to identify the quintessential Washington company, one that exemplifies the competitive strengths of the region's economy, the choice, hands down, would be Booz Allen Hamilton.

What? Content for free? What kind of new madness is this?

Bookshare.org offers 17,000 royalty-free texts
By Corey Murray, Assistant Editor, eSchool News
May 7, 2004
For special-education teachers, providing required reading for blind and learning-disabled students is a significant challenge. Now, thanks to the aid of Bookshare.org, a non-profit digital book service based in Palo Alto, Calif., educators have access to a library of thousands of titles they can download and reproduce for use on screen readers or as MP3 files.

The April 2004 issue of Learning Technology newsletter

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Volume 6 Issue 2 (ISSN 1438-0625)
Publication of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT) Available here:
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* From the editor
* 4th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
* Guest Editorial
* Creating Reusable Content: A practitioner's observations
* Considering Model-based Adaptivity for Learning Objects
* Developing learning objects: more than just labelling
* Defining a Simple Sequence for RLOs
* The Collaboration of Learning Objects in a Grid Environment
* The potential for learning objects to support flexible learning in higher education
* A Novel Approach of Learning Object Extraction and Management to Support Multiple Standards
* Applying Data Mining in E-learning Environment
* Converting Existing Course Materials into Learning Objects via SCORM: An Initial Study
* Hard SCORM