RSS and E-Learning lessons

This is an interesting presentation of using RSS to connect Learning Objects. 

"Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs" [Daypop Top 40]

11:11:06 AM    

More thoughts about RSS in education.

Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs rocks. Just listened to the Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback and Weblogs multi-media presentation that I mentioned before and I must say it rocks!  This just confirms that the learning community (well at least  Alan Levine at Maricopa in Arizona, Brian Lamb at UBC and D'Arcy Norman at  the Univeristy of Calgary do!) gets RSS, blogs and Trackback.

Some cool links from the presentation (some of which I've blogged before but bear repeating):

• RSS - The Next Killer App for Education
• The Fuss - A UBC Wiki about RSS in Education and Learning Objects
• RSS Feeds via JavaScript - Alan Levine
• Stephen Downes - An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers
• Raymond Yee's Webnet Talk about making RSS feeds from Amazon
  

8:55:09 AM    

Proof of Concept: Learning Object Metadata and LDAP Server as (lightweight) Repository.

(In other words, don't get too excited just yet. - BB)

LOM/CanCore-based Open-Source Software Components.

http://www.cancore.org/swcomponents.html

Cancore and Athabasca University have announced the release of three new components to assit in the development of learning object metadata and repositories. They are, variously,

• A LOM Interface or API simplifying the manipulation and transmission of LOM data within and between software systems.
  
• LOR Interface or API for communicating with a Learning Object and Metadata Repository.
  
• A custom LDAP schema which allows LOM records to be stored and accessed via an LDAP server.

This is great news Both the LOM and LOR APIs are Java bindings, which makes me wonder if this foretells of plans for future interoperation with potential OKI-compliant systems.

UPDATE: I'm in Calgary today for some meetings on educational metadata and got a little more background on this project - it sounds like it is no more or less than it seems, a proof of concept that one can use an LDAP server as a lightweight object repository. - SWL

- via [e-Learning Eclectic]

8:44:44 PM