> I think I mostly agree with Mike's comments.
me too.
Interesting Pete.
I'm going to hijack this thread to a sub-thread
just a little because its a good lead-in. Please, carry on.
But meanwhile here on the sub-thread I'd like to ask
what people think about how this particular
issue of how "contained" Meta-data should be
relates to something I call blended learning.
Take an example of the telephone (not original,
example suggested by Steve Lay). In real life
we use the telephone here and there. Its not
something we are either using or not using, we don't
have a separate telephone-mode.
The telephone is integrated in daily
life. There is no binary switch, we can use how we use it
and we don't do things differently according to whether
or not we are using the telephone (don't mention
"telephone voices") and neither do we use the telephone
differently when we are ordering shopping to when we
are chatting to our friends. Its seamless.
Now take eLearning. At the moment it seems to me that
we are either doing eLearning or we are not. We are
either using a learning object or we learn in some
other way. It doesn't seem to be well integratable
in learning. Suppose you are a child with some
serious cognitive difficulty are and using eLearning
to learn something.
Suppose now that for something you don't understand,
you have to execute the rule "if its thursday ask
Mrs. Jones to help you otherwise ask Mr Brown".
Now I know that some well-known Schema's have
(catalog, entry) but I'm not sure they extend to that
kind of usage.
So suppose we wanted to have learning objects with
localised alternatives of that kind. Does this have
implications for the kind of information that we
might want to record in Meta-data about remote objects
related to this object ?
I think it does and I think its similar to the kind of
information we might want to store in the Meta-data
relating to a learning object about remote objects
in the offline case Mike describes
(which seems to have a lot of similarity with this).
I'd be interested to hear opinions on this one and
real use-cases or scenarios particularly from people
on the ground as it were - people using eLearning
in classrooms.
andy
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