A while back, a blog conversation between Mark Oehlert and Lee Kraus regarding how to knit together lots of embedded, widget/gadget like learning applications into a coherent picture of what and how learners are doing. To begin with, the idea they’re toying with is very similar to the LMOS but focused on a corporate market […]
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Web Analytics, Gaming Technology, and the LMOS
Published by February 1st, 2007 in EPSS, PCD, and Workflow Learning, Build This, Please, Usability and Human Factors and LMOS. 1 CommentSeparating Content from Presentation for Pedagogy and Reusability
Published by March 13th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Build This, Please. 4 CommentsA post on the OpenACS discussion board clued me in to a neat little technology piece called S5. Basically, it takes a single, simple HTML file and turns it into a cross-browser slide show. No more messy, crufty PowerPoint-exported HTML; this is nice and clean. (Check out the demo to see it in action.)
But the […]
Tuning Folksonomies
Published by January 31st, 2005 in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Build This, Please and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsA while back, I posted an idea for checking to see the degree to which two differently named memes overlap in content. Looking back, what I was really talking about was tuning a folksonomy. What we really want is a way to see how much overlap there is between two tags so that we can […]
Search, Copyright, and Course Pack Affordances
Published by November 27th, 2004 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Build This, Please. 1 CommentI’m still very much interested in the idea of creating a system that enables professors to assemble course packs out of Open Access or, better yet, Creative Commons-licensed content. But my idea is broadening somewhat based on what I’m learning at my new job.In addition to encouraging faculty to use open content, the system should […]
Creative Commons Licensing as an Affordance
Published by November 5th, 2004 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Build This, Please. 0 CommentsOpen Access News points out that the Open Archives Initiative is seeking public comment on their specification for conveying copyright metadata on Open Access content. Such a specification is critical to the aforementioned goal of assembling course packs out of Open Access materials. Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition to create coursepacks. […]
