e-Clippings (Learning As Art)

Technical Committee on Learning Technology's Special Issue on ADL/SCORM

Man! If that title just doesn't make all the geek hairs on the back of your neck stand up, then I don't know what will! Actually, I kid, I kid because I love.
From the issue:

Special Issue on ADL/SCORM... 2

Revisiting the -ilities: Adjusting the Distributed Learning Marketplace, Again?. 3

SCORM Frameworker: An Approach to Supporting Implementation of Standards-based Distance Learning. 5

Identifying and Embracing the Trade-offs in Creating SCORM-Conformant SCOs. 7

The JADL 2012 Integrated Prototype Architecture. 9

Integrating the Delta 3D Engine with a SCORM-Managed Learning Environment 11

DARWARS: An Architecture for Delivering Experiential Training. 13

Intelligent Delivery of Sharable Content Objects – An Integrated Solution to Enhance Learning. 15

Authoring Tools for ITS with consideration of SCORM Standard. 17

NLTML: A Mark-up Language for Transformation-based Question Generation

"FeDCOR: An Institutional CORDRA Registry" (D-Lib Magazine)

Man...I know I have to read this and I know this stuff is important (mad props out to my ADL brothers and sisters) ...but this title just makes me want to drive a hot nail into my head. Here is the recommended pre-req. reading.

I cannot imagine how freaking exciting this video must be!!!

(from CETIS)

Interoperability in action video
Wilbert Kraan, CETIS staff
November 02, 2004

"The eXchange for Learning (X4L) programme has released a video on the web about the practicalities of making interoperable learning content. While there's plenty to read about the pros and cons of standards, this video shows an actual scenario of finding, creating and enhancing learning objects using a variety of tools.

With the video, Mark Power, the CETIS X4L support officer, has created a step by step guide through the four most common actions people need to do with learning objects."

"When metadata becomes content, and authoring learning" (CETIS)

"and the result an assessment method and part of a learner's/learning profile, you have something like Topic Maps. One of a number of emerging semantic web standards, it is the subject of quite a bit of research and development. The Norwegian estandard project and its members are busy working on educational applications of the technology."

LINK

I'm probably the last person in the blogosphere to post this but...Meta-data, meet meta-crap.

Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
Cory Doctorow
Version 1.3: 26 August 2001

"There are at least seven insurmountable obstacles between the world as we know it and meta-utopia. I'll enumerate them below:

People lie
People are lazy
People are stupid
Mission: Impossible -- know thyself
Schemas aren't neutral
Metrics influence results
There's more than one way to describe something"

"CORDRA: ADL's Federated Content Repository Model"

(LINK)

"Summary of the ADL Content Object Repository, Discovery and Registration (or Resolution) Architecture, to be demonstrated later this fall and launched early in the new year. The idea is to create a system whereby all learning resources can be given a name and a system where these names can be resolved into physical addresses on the network. Not included in this paper (because I was talking at the time) was the exchange I had with the presenter, Dan Rehak, about the management of the system, the question of whether it breaks the internet into pieces, whether it builds authentication into the network infrastructure, whether the use of handles is the best way to locate objects, and whether the proposed system is or is not the same as RDF. These are all serious issues (in my view, at least), and while Rehak says this is a work in progress, it is also true that it will be dropped on the community as an essential fait accompli early in the new year. I will have more on all this some time in the future."

Shareable State Persistence (IMS)

IMS Shareable State Persistence

"The Shareable State Persistence specification describes an extension to e-learning runtime systems (e.g., SCORM) that enables the storage of and shared access to state information between content objects. There is currently no prescribed method for a content object to store (arbitrarily complex) state information in the runtime system that can later be retrieved by itself or by another content object. This capability is crucial to the persistence of the sometimes complex state information that is generated by a variety of interactive content (e.g., simulations) and that is currently stored and retrieved in proprietary formats and through proprietary methods. "

The Final Specification Version 1 was approved by the IMS Technical Board in July 2004 2004.

Info standards group releases draft:

The proposed protocol from the National Information Standards Organization defines a way to exchange data between digital reference service domains.