Sarah Currier wrote:
> Just wondered if folk could say what (if any) universal or general
> subject classification scheme they are using to classify learning
> resources within the LOM?
A pedant writes:
What exactly do you mean by subject classification: "discipline" or
"idea"? The LOM makes the distinction in classification.purpose. The
distinction may not be clear to some, and may not always be relevant,
but an example of where it is important is in teaching statistics where
the same concept (e.g. the normal distribution) may be presented quite
differently to mathematicians (who will get told about ) physicists
(using examples from radio-active decay, x-ray intensity measurement and
the like) and biologists (using examples such as height distribution) --
and it may well be that neither would be much use to someone on a maths
degree.
JACS and LearnDirect seem well suited (and are quite widely used) for
describing discipline.
See you, Phil.
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Phil Barker Learning Technology Adviser
ICBL, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
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