Monthly Archives: January 2007

The communal LOR

In our last episode, we beat up a bit on the notion of “learning object repositories” (LORs), wondering whether the well-meaning assemblage of modular bits and pieces of educational materials was actually a frustration of coherent teaching. Educational practices, after all, are still grounded in settings and customs that predate the digital on-demand world. We …

January 18, 2007 – 4:58 pm | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Academia, Libraryworld, Reading, ^ | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Learning object(ions)

The pendulum has certainly swung far away from the early days of digital learning happytalk, which was all objects all the time. In them dotgone days, “strategic futurists” such as Wayne Hodgins proclaimed that “the ability to learn and apply the right stuff faster is the only sustainable competitive advantage there is for any of …

January 4, 2007 – 10:29 am | By Mark Phillipson | Posted in Academia, Libraryworld | Comments (1)