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Learning Objects: Believe It or Not!

Here is a sneaky dog's first peek at Learning Objects: Believe It or Not!, the gist of what I am presenting 1:00 PM Friday as part of the "Learning Objects Lounge" at the EDUCAUSE/NLII Focus Session on Learning Objects.

Please do not alert the lawyers for the Ripley's enterprise. It was an irresistable metaphor.

Actually the format is a DVD (see a screen shot of the menu). The purpose here is to provide some real-life stories via video (not previous Maricopa Learning eXchange.

What I did was first to ask around my system a lot and try to identify these faculty, and then beg them to sit in front of my video camera for 15 minutes to talk about their MLX experience. A weekend of quick video editing, a bit of software wrangling (some cussing was heard), and voilá... a DVD was born.

What I found was that our faculty are using content from the MLX, they are de-contructing items to smaller pieces, adding one new ideas to published ones, picking up ideas other different disciplines than their own, creaing items big and small, caring about the context of their creations, and mostly, being energized about finding this as a resource. Re-use is happening. These are of tremendous value to our adjunct faculty. But each has one poignant phrase about re-use, granularity, context, value, and more.

And these are just a handful I could corner on short notice!

Be kind to our video servers- the clips were hastily compressed (sorry, all are done for broadband connections) and it is a humble server hosting the video.

More tomorrow on the reaction.