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Stephen Downes

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This is from last March but I just found it in Mike Taylor's newsletter today. It is remarkable not only because of the problem it describes, but because of the way the problem is just now being discovered in some circles. Essentially, the issue is that if you design your elearning in a traditional manner, putting content and activities into SCORM packages, then it's impossible to search and find resources on an as-needed basis. This problem, of course, was supposed to be solved by metadata, but metadata has never been adequate to the task. You need to be able to search deep into the content and to be able to retrieve specific pages. If you can't, your elearning is broken.

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