Stephen Downes

Scott Wilson's summary of the 'Clarity or Calamity' article. He points out that standards bodies have been working on pedagogical issues for some time. In addition to EML, the PALO language developed in Spain and TeachML (Targeteam) from Germany's University of the Armed Forces both use ontologies to build semantic networks of learning objects. Wilson writes, tellingly, "Of course, moving into the pedagogic realm brings with it a whole new set of complex issues, with conflicts between empirical, constructivist, social, behavioural and other approaches. Is this something an e-Learning specification can reasonably tackle?" Good question.CRLF