Hi Ana, David and all,
Learnster must be the (great) name David was hiding from us at
Canarie's Canadian National E-Learning Workshop (October 3 - 4, 2000,
Toronto, Ontario).
His presentation is available on Canarie's web site :
http://www.canarie.ca/funding/learning/workshop_2000/presentations.html
Just save the presentation and rename it from ppt to pdf.
Cheers,
Christian
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Ana Preston wrote:
>
> Dave: Thanks for the info!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:49:09 -0800
> From: David Porter <[log in to unmask]>
> <snip>
>
> The Learnster concept is actually being built around OLA's Canadian Learning
> Bank, in a kind of Napster meets eBay scenario. We are using "Learnster"
> simply as a code for now. We are just starting to lay the foundation for the
> concept, but it is powered by the notion of giving learners the ability to
> assemble learning objects in ways that meet their needs, and that can be
> evaluated against accredited competency standards.
>
> Our motivation actually has less to do with the technology and more to do
> with sound adult learning theory. We see the technology as an enabler and
> are moving to build learning planning tools, records of learning tools, and
> such that can be self-managed over a lifetime. Other enablers are the
> metadata standards that out there that can be used to power search and
> aggregation of instructional content. Napster demonstrated that when you
> have a common file format that interoperates, accessible by consistent and
> simple metadata that facilitates search and retrieval, that you can build
> community quickly. eBay demonstrates that convivial, human-engineered
> systems are the real basis for transaction on the web. Now if we can
> localize this even more using P2P concepts, I think it could be powerful.
>
> There is much still to learn, but hey, it's fun!
>
> Saludos.
>
> D.
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