Andy,
Stuart highlights the phrase "that HAVE BEEN USED as part of educational
activities". When I read your first posting on this topic that phrase also
jumped out at me -- for the reason that we need to be as interested in
future use ("may be used") as much as past use ("have been used") . I like
Phil's suggested replacement.
Re *inherent* difficulty -- there's probably nothing *inherently* difficult
because difficulty will always depend on who is interacting with the
resource.
Jon
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Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 7:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Functional requirements and the model
Agreed... maybe.
But we come back to the central problem... namely that very few so-called
learning objects have an inherent 'difficulty level' and even those that do
can be used in different ways which means we have to associate properties
like 'difficulty' with an educationalUsage rather than with the Resource
itself.
I suppose we could define properties like 'intendedDifficulty' with
definitions like 'the intended level of difficulty, as envisaged by the
creator of the learning resource' but it seems to me that would be a
significantly less useful property than something like 'difficulty' ??
Andy
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From: Stuart Sutton [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 February 2010 17:47
To: Andy Powell; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Functional requirements and the model
Andy, here we hit upon rough shoals because limiting use of these education
properties (DC and LOM) to resources "that HAVE BEEN USED as part of
educational activities" eliminates 99% of all the resources of interest to
the community to which these properties have been applied-millions of
resource descriptions.
Stuart
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:33 AM
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Subject: Functional requirements and the model
I was just taking a quick look at the functional requirements
(http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Functional_20Requirements).
As written, I think we have a problem with these in terms of the model
(http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/Model).
We currently say things like:
Support the discovery of learning resources and activities targeted at
particular levels of difficulty.
What I think we should be saying (in terms of the model) is:
Support the discovery of learning resources that have been used as part of
educational activities targeted at particular levels of difficulty.
Andy
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