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Goodbye

I will miss you all especially David Grosh great group member ...work with him guys really hard worker.  Kristen you worked like the devil I appreciate your commitment to the cause.  Rob it was great working with you this semester...To all I will miss two days until I cross that stage for the temporary unemployment line...I will stay active using PLN to keep up on your lives.  Stay in touch...tamara.means@gmail.com.

Indexing!!!

I am so sick of back tracking trying to get all the relation element together...I am sorry Amy for not responding but I thought you could figure out the link tool...This has been a hair raising experience.  I actually might like a job doing this ...watch out Dr MacCall might start getting call for reference

Digital learning object repositories by H. Frank Cervone

I told you this article was coming from SCORM readings...This type of repository is very different in the problems that confront development..

So you have a repository with re-usable learning objects...love it...from an instructional p.o.v.

Article argues that all across the board including, IT staff, instructional designers and many others to be successful .

Many skillsets are needed that usually do not reside in traditional digital repositories  i.e. simple versioning of objects will not work...other issues include object creations must meet multiple context  minimizing reinvention of duplication but, customization is a requirement.

Organization is another issue that requires intuitive discovery approach such as, keywords, subject and many other format considerations.

Free from copyright and governed by Creative Commons license..(I have blogged about this)

Many issues confronting this type of repository have plagued libraries for many years..long term storage and use of learning objects are unique and lend to slower development of solutions.  The momentum needed is difficult to find in smaller institutions but, with larger organizations implementing inter-institutional repositories could be best approach.  I hope this article gives you some idea of the scope of the problem. 
  

The One Minute SCORM Overview for Anyone

I was so looking forward to reading the two articles on SCORM...currently I am participating in a instructional assistantship...which requires us to create re-usable digital learning content....so on to the article

I knew very little about the concept..SCORM

What is SCORM?

Shareable Content Object Reference Model..just a way to build training content so others can use it....yeah..versions of SCORM governs 2 things "packaging content" & "exchanging data at run-time."

Why use it?

Basically, widely adopted period...works well at huge organizations.

What's a SCO?
Shareable Content Object is the smallest piece of grain as it relates to content that is "reusable and independent"...shows some separation from other items.

What Version?
Any ..guess what? interoperable system..yeah...

Are you Content or LMS vendor?
Depends..if you play content you are a content ...if you you import someone else's you are LMS...very flexible for users.

What SCORM is not.
Just online training and only btw single user and system..no offline training or group training.

That's It...led to reading an article on Digital learning object repositories.  that will be my next blog...check it out.


H. Frank Cervone, (2012) "Digital learning object repositories", OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 28 Is: 1, pp.14 - 16

H. Frank Cervone, (2012) "Digital learning object repositories", OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.14 - 16 - See more at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com.libdata.lib.ua.edu/journals.htm?issn=1065-075x&volume=28&issue=1&articleid=17014948&show=html#sthash.7tZiteP1.dpuf

H. Frank Cervone, (2012) "Digital learning object repositories", OCLC Systems & Services, Vol. 28 Iss: 1, pp.14 - 16 - See more at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com.libdata.lib.ua.edu/journals.htm?issn=1065-075x&volume=28&issue=1&articleid=17014948&show=html#sthash.7tZiteP1.dpuf

Welcome Europeana Professional

Welcome!!!

I have to admit I was interested from the get go...I have spent several years in the UK station with the military...so hats off to our fore fathers....Multi-lanuage site wahoo....

Who we are---search portal and API (application Programming Interface) and Linked open data (we have talked about this in class).  Network of experts in a open forum consisting of members from various technical, legal and strategic wits.

What we do---simply put aggregate, facilitate, distribute, and engage

Also, other information provided on their website includes website for projects, portal search engine and some other interesting collections and community contributed content.

I think this site is worth exploring...check it out!!!

DPLA Policy on Metadata Part II

DPLA

DPLA has undertaken the task of developing a policy  to make available to all free databases of metadata.  They have a commitment to ensure unencumbered access within the copyright law.

The policy also explains their definition of content, metadata and preview...so check that out 

So here we go 

1. Majority metadata not subject to copyright restriction.They believe majority of metadata not subject to copyrights.
2. DPLA partners share this commitment and vision.  Plus, have partners agree to dedicate metadata to public domain.
3. No rights over anybody and give it to public domain
4. Free I said free!!!!! and unencumbered (luv that word)..harvest/collect/modify and use and reuse.

So that's the basic concept!!!