Jay Cross (two years ago), says it well: "I envision a future for shared content. If Linus Torwalds can line up an army of programmers to add functionality to the Linux kernel, why couldn't we (you and me) enlist a core group of organizations and individuals to share learning objects?"
Obviously, I agree completely! The focus must be on the end-user level. Who creates the content? Who benefits from sharing? It's the instructors/teachers (though some organizations claim IP as theirs - not the instructor). It's really interesting watching bloggers in motion...and reflecting on the open source software movement...and then wandering off into idealism and imagining the tremendous potential of educators matching the informal nature of building knowledge (blogging) with the practice of sharing (open source). I'm convinced that learning object sharing will work much sooner on informal (blogging-like) model than it will in formal initiatives.
Posted by gsiemens at April 20, 2003 8:39 PM