Posted 7:18 AM by George Siemens
Content at Your Fingertips: Better Ways to Classify & Tag via Techno-News Blog
Quote: "As the amount of electronic information on corporate networks grows, so does the need to locate relevant information quickly and accurately. But without structure and organization, users waste time (and therefore money) trying to find content they need. In the worst cases, valuable content assets may not be retrieved on time or at all."
Comment: Decent discussion of two approaches to metatagging: at content creation...or at the searching stage (via algorithms analyzing content for meaning). Personally, I prefer the second - more focused on the user, rather than the creator of content.

Posted 7:09 AM by George Siemens
Future of Elearning
Quote: "The e-learning market place is an oddity - although it has been around for over twenty years it still shows signs of relative immaturity. So, as organisations start to understand the competitive advantage that an effective e-learning programme can give, its time to take a look to the future to see what e-learning may have to offer next."
Comment: Good title...but that's about it. The article's a bit anemic...but it does make some good (simplistic) statements about elearning's future: collaborative tools, integrating elearning with larger organizational goals,and personalization.

Posted 7:01 AM by George Siemens
SCORM is not for Everyone
Quote: Arguably the most remarkable part of Rehak's briefing, however, was his clarification of the pedagogic issue. He emphasised repeatedly that SCORM is not the right approach for higher and primary education. According to Rehak, "SCORM is essentially about a single-learner, self-paced and self-directed. It has a limited pedagogical model unsuited for some environments."
Comment: Follow up to a comment I posted earlier this week...article, unfortunately, doesn't go into great detail on specifics of why SCORM isn't applicable in higher education...and potential alternatives (though from a discussion on elearningleaders, it doesn't appear that there are significant alternatives...so in some cases, SCORM is being adopted simply because it's the only choice)