Mikael Nilsson wrote:
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> Phil Barker wrote:
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>> Hello Mikael.
>> I suppose that, in as much as the scope of the list is "educational
>> technology", the ET in CETIS, you could say we are defined by "what". We
>> (CETIS) also have a responsibility to support those in the UK who are
>> using the LOM, which means we are, in some circumstances, stuck with
>> the "how" that the LOM adopts.
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> So I suppose an interesting followup question would be, "what do we mean
> by *educational* metadata?", which is a different question altogether!
> And much more difficult...
>
Yes, indeed.
> It assumes we know what metadata is, and focuses on which kinds of
> metadata that are truly educational, which that are more generic (most
> of LOM actually is), and which are out-of-scope.
>
but it's not just the educational metadata (whatever that turns out to
be) that is relevant to educational technology, so the generic isn't
necessarily out of scope.
Phil.
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