This is a simple little tool that underscores the straitjacket that the corporate world has put itself in vis-a-vis learning objects. For a variety of reasons, I have recently been catching up on what the higher ed world has been thinking about learning objects these days. Of course, they have a lot more freedom off the bat than their corporate counterparts because they don’t have to rely on a totally self-paced course paradigm and the lame, page-turner authoring tools that most LCMS’s provide these days. They can have an instructor provide the context that knits the content together. But Instructional Architect, out of Utah State University, shows that you don’t need a live facilitator or a fancy LCMS to put together a rich course. Be sure to check out the examples and browse the user-created projects.
The key, of course, is having a rich repository of content to which you can link. But hey, it’s the web. How hard can that be?