Comments on: The Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories or, a chat with Brian Lamb http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb/ a "b" blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:06:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Bogle http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-83770 Mike Bogle Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:43:46 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=4460#comment-83770 Man that topic takes me back. I was one of the poor saps here tasked with flogging our learning object repository to academics who saw no value in it (or LOs in general), didn't understand it, and thought the metadata criteria were too demanding (which they were). I also remember the very first time I ever heard the term "blog" used - it was Brian who said it (in Hong Kong around 2003 I believe), and ironically it was during a training session for the learning object repository. Funny how technologies that cost oodles of money, fail to gain uptake, and yet are based on rigid centrally managed structures will get funded by institutions - but the second you start releasing control to the masses there's silence... Man that topic takes me back. I was one of the poor saps here tasked with flogging our learning object repository to academics who saw no value in it (or LOs in general), didn’t understand it, and thought the metadata criteria were too demanding (which they were).

I also remember the very first time I ever heard the term “blog” used – it was Brian who said it (in Hong Kong around 2003 I believe), and ironically it was during a training session for the learning object repository.

Funny how technologies that cost oodles of money, fail to gain uptake, and yet are based on rigid centrally managed structures will get funded by institutions – but the second you start releasing control to the masses there’s silence…

]]> By: Martin http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-83700 Martin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:46:06 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=4460#comment-83700 This is great - I was a big proponent of LOs back in the day, and lived through SCORM, IMS, Dublin Core etc. This is a good account, and I think there are some more general lessons we can draw from this about how trends change, and the influence of technology. LOs became OERs but more importantly became blogs, slideshare, flickr, etc Let us learn these lessons! This is great – I was a big proponent of LOs back in the day, and lived through SCORM, IMS, Dublin Core etc. This is a good account, and I think there are some more general lessons we can draw from this about how trends change, and the influence of technology. LOs became OERs but more importantly became blogs, slideshare, flickr, etc
Let us learn these lessons!
]]> By: John’s JISC CETIS blog » Notes from the web: Making Standards that Work and a Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-83682 John’s JISC CETIS blog » Notes from the web: Making Standards that Work and a Sordid History of Learning Object Repositories Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:23 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=4460#comment-83682 [...] which the original learning object repositories envisaged and which Brian Lamb reflects on here: http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb.... I still think repositories have a lot to offer the management of learning materials but [...] [...] which the original learning object repositories envisaged and which Brian Lamb reflects on here: http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb…. I still think repositories have a lot to offer the management of learning materials but [...]
]]> By: Alan Levine http://bavatuesdays.com/the-sordid-history-of-learning-object-repositories-or-a-chat-with-brian-lamb/comment-page-1/#comment-83675 Alan Levine Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:45:39 +0000 http://bavatuesdays.com/?p=4460#comment-83675 I too enjoyed the flashbacks told in classic Lambian style (I still hope one day I can casually use words like "oligarch" in conversation). The MERLOT preso Brian refers to was in 2003- you can find it still on the Maricopa server though some of the links may have rotted http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/ There was also a more developed version we did in Macromedia Breeze format for an online NMC conference in October 2003 http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc1003/ I too enjoyed the flashbacks told in classic Lambian style (I still hope one day I can casually use words like “oligarch” in conversation).

The MERLOT preso Brian refers to was in 2003- you can find it still on the Maricopa server though some of the links may have rotted
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/

There was also a more developed version we did in Macromedia Breeze format for an online NMC conference in October 2003
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/nmc1003/

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