Learning Objects in an E-Learning Context
I can't read PDF files at this CyberCafe, but ADL's description sounds interesting: :With vigorous development of the Internet, e-learning system has become more and more popular. ADL proposes SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) specification that an XML-based metadata with physical files had been explored by many studies since 1997. More...

Exports Surge for Education Nation
Australia's investment in e-learning is beginning to be seen to pay off, as this article in the Sydney Morning Herald indicates. More...

E-ffective Writing for E-Learning Environments
One of the architects of IMS's Learning Design specification, the University of Alberta's Katy Campbell is interviewed in this article examining "universal instructional design and user-centered design." Topics covered range from accessibility, cultural sensitivity, usability and planning. More...

The Online Presence Spiral
Interesting article on the potential and current limitations of audio visual communication over the internet, based in practical experience. The author identifies two major issues: voice quality and image lag. Both of these are caused by lack of bandwidth and lack of processing power, both of which will ease over time. More...

Metadata Quality in e-Learning: Garbage In – Garbage Out?
Overall, a good article which challenges the idea that authors ought to be exclusively responsible for the completion of metadata. The author describes the creation of 'collaborative metadata' in which the author provides some data and an expert in classification (say) provides additional metadata. More...

International Open Forum on E-Learning and Standards - Day 2
Summary of the second day if the International Open Forum on E-Learning and Standards, consisting of round-table discussions. Some great content here. In the first part of the summary there is an emphasis on getting return for public money spent on e-learning, and in particular "something that is durable and re-usable through time as part of our educational heritage." Discussion of the WSIS Declaration of Principles led to discussion of "converting existing learning objects and learning resources into 'learning assets' as part of a common heritage and collective asset from a global perspective." There is a need for better discussions, though not necessarily another organization. More...

Standards in E-Learning
Presentation on behalf of Dublic Core to the International Open Forum on E-Learning and Standards. The usual Dublin Core, with its underlying theme: "Simplicity wins the day." See slide 7 for a non-SVG version of James M Turner and Véronique Moal's Standards Meta-Map, a great overview of the standards realm. More...

e-Learning Trends and Standards in Korea
Excellent overview of the e-learning and standards process in South Korea, featuring a great deal of information that will be new to most readers (new to me, at least). Slides 4-6 outline major objectives of the Korean approach: accessibility, interoperability, durability, reusability, adaptability and affordability. How often initiatives favour one or another of these at the expense of the rest. More...

International Open Forum on E-Learning and Standards
In today's OLDaily, I provide extensive coverage of the International Open Forum on E-Learning and Standards, the proceedings of which have just been posted online. In between hoping my translations from French are accurate and grumbling about the (ironic) use of PowerPoint and PDF throughout, I am caught between a mixture of hope - because of the many assertions of committment to an open and shared global learning culture - and concern - because of the top-down nature of the process, the creeping commercialism inherent in standardization, and the discordant notes sounded by some participants (and especially the World Bank). More...

Designing Effective Online Learning Resources
Website version of PowerPoint slides (which means it requires Internet Explorer, though I viewed it with Firebird on Linux and it still mostly displayed). The slides are essentially a case study of the design, distribution and evlautaion of a learning object submitted to CLOE. More...