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CDB Entry: Trackback / Sharebacks: Give These Packages Some Lovin'

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:27:47 -0700

We've promoted many different times (see the Breezed NMC Oct 2003 presentation) the notion that weblog Trackback technology provides a simple, and working now, method to connect descriptions of usage of learning objects stored in "thingamotories" (or "repositories if you...

comment by: Scott Leslie

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:47:43 -0700

Alan, have you investigated the APIs from any of the major CMS that you folks at Maricopa may have running? Until we get the delivery environments to automatically reply back to the repositories when an object is used/accessed, it seems to me that the whole trackback/shareback notion in relation to objects will remain largely theoretical. I would be very interested in hearing if you or anyone else is exploring this kind of integration with CMS. Cheers, Scott

comment by: Alan Levine

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:18:09 -0700

No... I've been busy fighiting spam ;-) And we have 4+ different CMSes in use around our system

Are you referring Scott to the arrangements/agreeements that MERLOT has made to make their content appear as resources inside WebCT/Blackboard? It is something to put on the back burner to investigate. Or are you suggesting some way of making the MLX be able to robot a CMS and find content that has been used form MLX??

I agree that it is still mostly theory, but I am just a small player, Were you on thr emails that bounced around some other Canadina colleagues about trying to roll this into some Learning Objects Metadata??