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CDB Entry: Learning Object Reuse Acknowledgment (an idea, an acronym, and not much more)

Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:23:23 -0700

One of the theories (myth?) for learning objects is that their cataloging is there to support re-use. But just making piles of objects in repositories does not intrinsically motivate re-use. About a year ago (BB before blogging, so the first...

comment by: Ferdinand

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:43:51 -0700

Alan,

I agree with your notion of developing the ability to track who is re-using the learning objects residing in a repository. During his presentations to member institutions, Kevin Harrigan, the director for the Co-operative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE), found that they were interested in being able to determine who was using their learning object. The members see this as providing some indication of the value of a learning object, akin to the number of citations that can be attributed to a specific author. More importantly, I think it would also be valuable if the trackback could record how the object was being used and in what instructional context.

Ferdinand

comment by: Alan Levine

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:10:35 -0700

I am continually surprised that there is not MORe clamor for some sort of tracking tool- for all the technical effort being tossed into meta-data and standards gobbledy-gook, some could surely be put towards some tools to link together discrete objects.

however, I would argue against trying to put too much information into a trackback such as you mentioned- it has to be simple and almost transparent, otherwise it is another long series of data entry.

The answers would be in following the trackbacks.