vPreliminary LOM Survey

vPreliminary LOM Survey
Ever wonder how people are actually using learning object metadata? This was the subject of a study conducted by Norm Friesen and Lassi Nirhamo over the summer and presented at the ADL Learning Repository Summit (the report is available from the SC36 WG4 Documents List. Though some things - such as the use of languagestrings - are working well, the vast majority of fields, especially educational metadata fields, are underused, and we are beginning to see promotional material creep into the description field. More...