Proceedings of the OLN Institute –

http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/
michelle/archives/000194.html

Via Michelle Lamberson comes mention of an important collection of papers on learning objects that came out of the recent OLN Institute at Ohio State called “Building and Assessing Shareable Content.” The proceedings for the conference, a book titled “Learning Objects: Contexts and Connections” (Catherine M. Gynn and Stephen R. Acker, Editors) are now available online.

Included in which is a great paper by Michelle and Brian Lamb titled “Course Management Systems: Trapped Content Silos or Sharing Platforms?” While ostensibly the paper addresses the issue about whether current CMSes enable or disable the sharing of content, in my mind the stronger points it ends up making are about the fact that it is likely cultural, not technical, issues that will be a challenge to sharing, and that the definition of ‘content’ currently in place leaves a lot to be desired. – SWL

– via [Michelle’s Online Learning Freakout Party Zone]