One of the things that bothered me about the Common Cartridge discussion is that there doesn’t seem to be any clear conceptual bridge between learning “content” and learning activities (even if we will eventually have a technical bridge between Common Cartridge and LTI). After spending years struggling to figure out just what the heck a re-usable learning object would look like, I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing. The term “learning object” should be considered harmful because it reinforces an artificial distinction between content and activities. There was no sign this week that the higher education community as represented at Learning Impact is ready to reframe the problem (or even fully recognize the need for reframing it) in more productive terms.

As you say, having a Sakai track at JA-SIg was just enough presentations to allow us to outreach across open source higher education communities without having the stress of six tracks - all Sakai - all the time.

The meeting in Paris in June will be great because it will be all about Sakai - but we will all be very busy during that meeting - it will be harder to get mind space to plan development.

All in all - this was the most productive developer meeting that I can remember.

I have a blog about Stanford Women’s Basketball. Check back for updates on Stanford, or I would love it if you would want to publish a link to us.
Thanks,
Cindy
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