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The Affordances of Content Design

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on September 18, 2019

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Content as Infrastructure

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Content is infrastructure. David Wiley I opened my first post in this series with a statement about courseware and content design: An unbelievable number of words have been written about the technology affordances of courseware—progress indicators, nudges, analytics, adaptive algorithms, and so on. But what seems to have gone completely unnoticed in all this […]

Cengage OpenNow: Big news on the OER front hiding in plain sight

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 15, 2017

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Cengage announces OpenNow, their full entry into using OER – a move that we’ve been tracking since at least 2011 at e-Literate

IMS Report on Learning Technology Satisfaction and Trends

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on February 14, 2007

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The IMS has issued a new report with the somewhat imposing title, “IMS GLC Learning Technology Satisfaction and Trends, North American Higher Education, 05 February 2007 Update.” You can get it here, but first you’ll have to register with the site (if you haven’t done so already). It’s important to read Section 2 of the […]

Learning Objects Considered Harmful

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on May 15, 2006

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I have a new column up on e-Learn called There’s No Such Thing as a Learning Object. This has been a long time coming; I was an early advocate for learning objects–and still am an advocate, in some ways. But I think that the term has gotten so badly abused that we need to do […]

Learning Objects and Stutter Points

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on May 30, 2005

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A while back I had the opportunity to hear Kevin Harrigan speak about CLOE, an Ontario-based feeder repository system for MERLOT. The group in attendance had just finished a quick rehash of the old and not terribly illuminating “what is a learning object” debate. Kevin (and CLOE) have a refreshing take on the whole mess. […]

The Obligatory Folksonomy Post

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on January 23, 2005

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Commenting on a recent post, Beth Harris asks the question of how the tagging system in Flickr could be used for teaching purposes. (Beth, a fellow SUNY-ite working at FIT, is doing some cool stuff with her art history classes using Flickr.) After thinking about it for a bit, I’m afraid the answer I come […]

Creative Commons Licensing as an Affordance

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on November 5, 2004

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Open Access News points out that the Open Archives Initiative is seeking public comment on their specification for conveying copyright metadata on Open Access content. Such a specification is critical to the aforementioned goal of assembling course packs out of Open Access materials.
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