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Albert IP, from Random Walk in E-Learning reports today
At the most recent LOM (Learning Object Metadata) WG meeting in Orlando, it was decided that the work on the LOM RDF binding will be discontinued. The reason quoted is the formation of a new taskforce between IEEE LOM and Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
And in a related [...]

Just as pleasant as the Sonoran desert flowers that unexpectedly pop up in the Spring, comes a new blog from our Paradise Valley Community College– the Student Life Blog is not about personal “diaries”, but provides regularly updated program information from the college’s Student Life Center, including upcoming events at the PVCC Coffeehouse, photos, leadership [...]

This afternoon I am doing an hand-on workshop on our Maricopa ePortfolio tool for the participants in our Maricopa Faculty Internship program. We have had some program like this for a few years where a year’s full of experiences, projects, mentoring is supposedly captured in a one page Word document report. I’ve been applying pressure [...]

Mmmmm….feeds… in an eportfolio…. mmmmm…
Audree has released another new exciting feature for the MyEport software used at her Chandler-Gilbert Community College and the Maricopa wide service we host for the rest of our system. It has had already for months or more, the ability to syndicate content out from an a publish eportfolio (e.g. to [...]

What a nice surprise this morning when a colleague mentioned Helen Barrett, the “grandmother of eportfolios” was just down the hall! She is here one day to do an eportfolio/Taskstream workshop with our Teacher Education program. Being in need of some good audio speakers for her demo, I loaned her my Harmon Kardon Sound Sticks, [...]

Here at Maricopa, we’ve been trying to corral the herding cats of electronic folios for several years, back to a Dialogue Day in 2002, to a not so fruitful play with a consortium (it put the software cart before the eport need horse), to creation of our Ocotillo Action Group in 2004 to an excellent [...]

Audree, the brilliant programmer behind the system used at Chandler-Gilbert Community College as well as the version we share with the rest of Maricopa is rolling out some exciting new features for this software.
How about a wiki inside an ePort?

Audree has rolled into the eport system a version of UseMod wiki.
She just gave me [...]

I recently got an email notification that a peer review has been done of a former project that is available in MERLOT. While it is listed as being loaded there in 2002, actually Negative Reinforcement University (NRU) was developed as a CD-ROM in 1996 and converted to the web in 1997.
Although I’ve not even [...]

In Executing Learning Objects, Resurrecting Sharing and Reuse, Scott Leslie takes some well thought shots at the sacred cow term of “learning objects” (and his animation of the “execution” could use more blood, guts, and squeals).
As part of a workshop for the BC Educational Technology Users Group, Scott has nicely posted his materials in wiki [...]

Did you catch the obits?
Teemu Leinonen, one of the members of the FLOSSE Posse has bravely cast out the notice in “Learning objects - Is the King naked?”. He argues that the IEEE definitions of “any entity, digital or non digital hat may be used for learning, education or teaching” is broad enough to mean [...]