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CDB Entry: My Left Big Toe is a Learning Object

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:15:32 -0700

When ever a discussion turns to "defining learing objects" my attention span goes out the door. With more than 500,000 Google-hits (link above), it is not any more clear what a LO is. The "Learning Object Virtual Community Of Practice"...

comment by: D'Arcy Norman

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:56:13 -0700

yeah... I hear that... ;-) we've got some very specific requirements to meet as a result of this week's meeting, so that will help.

and, i remember Stephen Downes presenting on learning objects one time, insisting that a crumpled kleenex is a learning object, to someone, in some context...

comment by: D'Arcy Norman

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:57:39 -0700

oh, and "digital assets" is entirely accurate for what we're using in pachyderm. a photo is an asset (even if it's a photo of your left big toe)

comment by: Stephen Downes

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:26:38 -0700

I keep saying - though people don't really agree - that what makes something a learning object is how it is *used*, not what it is.

comment by: James Farmer

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:30:38 -0700

You can see the universe in a grain of sand.... so why not in your big toe (or is that paw)?

:o)

comment by: Alan Levine

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:52:21 -0700

Yes, but the meta-data on the grain of sand! Is that true DC but not SCORM compliant, with IEEE underpinnings?

Me thinks the paw stepped in some cow pies.

comment by: Prentiss Riddle

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:44:34 -0700

In my brief flirtation with library school (which they call something much sexier now), my cataloging prof said that the generic term for the books, etc. that we were to learn to catalog was "information objects". Same thing?

I always thought that the term "information object" was as imperfect as the ones it was intended to replace. It implied that what our patrons and users wanted from library resources was "information". An experience -- say reading a novel, to name the most commonplace example -- could be so much more than the "information" contained in the object. (Or less, depending on your point of view.)

comment by: Alan Levine

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 17:00:29 -0700

"information objects" ugh- talk about vague over-classification! It informarion made of tiny little bits of information atoms? Look out soon for "experience objects," "knowledge objects," "memory objects"... I am running out of toes!

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Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:05:18 -0700

Excerpt: My Left Big Toe is a Learning Object: "But I have read some things recently where it seems that almost any multimedia lesson created, any web page, every single flash goober, seems to bear the hot label of a"learning object."...
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Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:42:04 -0700

Excerpt: It certainly looks like the term "learning object" is even less well understood than I thought! In my last post about learning objects, I expressed puzzlemen...

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Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:18:54 -0700

Excerpt: cogdogblog: My Left Big Toe is a Learning Object::Alan Levine posts a trenchant commentary about (cringe) Learning Objects, my favourite part being: But I have read some things recently where it seems that almost any multimedia lesson created, any web
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Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:57:33 -0700

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