I attended a couple of days of the IMS Summit on Interoperability Now and Next in Birmingham, UK last week. Sheila has written up some notes. I have to say I was disappointed by the learning design session. Five years after the learning design spec was finalised it’s still a complex business using the spec and current tools to define and implement a simple interaction. I keep feeling that IMS LD was a solution looking for a problem and I haven’t yet seen anything that solves any problems I have in learning & teaching.
Anyhoo I gave a presentation on using lightweight RSS for syndicating learning resources. Old stuff but still new to some. Sorry there’s no commentary to go with the slides. If asked ’so what’ I’d ask you to look at slides 17-20 as these outline a simple approach that uses RSS as a manifest for delivering learning resources (and activities, in fact anything you can point a URL at). It’s lightweight (the ‘manifest’ lists title, description and URL to resources, not the resources themselves), has an implicit sequencing built in (simple linear), with metadata if required, and is in a format understood by many existing applications and content management systems.
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by Adam’s CETIS Blog » Blog Archive » Joining Dots at the IMS September 2008: Learning Design
26 Sep 2008 at 15:02
[...] and haven’t yet seen anything that solves any problems I have in learning & teaching.” (David Davies). I don’t think we can address this by talking about LD. Rather we need to talk about [...]
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10 Oct 2008 at 21:16
[...] Dice David Davies: “Me decepcionó la sesión de diseño de aprendizajes…..creo que es una solución en busca de un problema. No he visto nada que resuelva ninguno de los problemas que tengo en enseñanza/aprendizaje”. [L][C] [...]