A Common Language and Knowledge Base for ID?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Charles M. Reigeluth and Alison Carr-Chellman[Edit][Delete]: A Common Language and Knowledge Base for ID?, IT Forum [Edit][Delete] October 3, 2006
I was all prepared to rake this one over the coals. After all, I have been reading the comments on IT Forum for the last month, and it seems like Yet Another Attempt to impose order on a messy discipline. But I hadn't read the paper, so I held off linking to it here. Good thing. It is actually a pretty good paper, if you take it at face value, as an analysis of the various aspects and dimensions of eductaional theory (or, instructional design, or...). More...