Comments on: OpenEd-Week 11-Learning Objects Part 2

By: Rob Barton

Rob Barton — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:42:27 +0000

Excellent observation that fighting over licensing issues with OER can be just as counterproductive as fighting over standards issues is with LO. I agree with Anto’s comment that we should assume nothing when it comes to quality. If we use materials with little pedagogical value, we have no one else to blame. A strength of OER seems to be the ability to remix content to make it fit properly. LO may or may not be able to be repositioned.

By: OpenEd: week 12 - Commenting on Learning Objects at Anto’stuff

OpenEd: week 12 - Commenting on Learning Objects at Anto’stuff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:04:13 +0000

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By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:15:16 +0000

I posted a reaction to your posting in case your interested. Like your direction / thoughts even though I disagree based on my personal expereinces. http://acidscorpio.btopro.com/node/98

By: Elisa

Elisa — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:35:05 +0000

I agree with both of you, Jessie and Karen. As David Wiley had asked in his previuos assignments, now we should start to talk to our colleagues about the open education movement and try to convince them to participate actively by freely and openly sharing their educational materials online, otherwise the risk we run is that we just talk about theories (I don’t care if the Lego metaphor is more effective than the meccano metaphor), forgetting that on the contrary the focus must be on “the content, learners, and outcomes”.

By: Anto

Anto — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:11:09 +0000

I agree with you. We should see at LOs and similar as technical stuff, we have to know their properties and use/not use them as tools. In no case we should think they have an implicit pedagogy: WE have to put pedagogy in our tools, not vice versa!
Paraphrasing Clemeanceau’s line on war: e-learning is too important to be left to engineers” :-)

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:47:18 +0000

I do agree with your opinions, and I think struggling on new terms which may have the same meaning as the old terms in the innovation is useless. We need pay our attentions more on the content, learners, and outcomes. As I mentioned last week, in my country, lots of people have heard of the term of open education, but many of them misunderstand the content of it. Then we need to find out how to correct their concepts of open education, and help the teachers participate on the innovation.