Author: karen

The one part of the readings on learning objects that resonated with me was the talk of the “engineer invasion” of standards, metadata, taxonomies, systems, etc. The bottom line is that there is too much focus on structure, technology, and

QUESTIONS: Some people believe that open educational resources “fix” many of the problems experienced by those who work with learning objects. Why do you think they would say this? Do you agree? Why or why not? After doing the reading

This is a good article on OER in education. It is interesting in that it ties into several of the books on the Open Ed reading list.

I’ve been doing some work on the idea of creating a free open kids simple dictionary. Two questions that have been central are: What open dictionary would be best to use as a starting point? How could this be hosted

A proposed law in Italy would require that all bloggers register with a national database. This is scary. Governments all over the world appear to be hugely out of touch with modern technologies and their uses.