Learning circuits - T+D Online - distance education - Brief Article

T+D, May, 2002

Here are Learning Circuits's top stories for May:

(Learning) Objects of Desire: Promise and Practicality

The e-learning industry predicts that development teams will be able to build content a single time, store it electronically, reuse it, and deliver it in different formats with a simple click--all by using learning objects.

Lori Mortimer separates fact from fiction--promise from practicality--by examining the technologies and standards that define, create, and employ learning objects.

Will MIT's OpenCourseWare Project Change E-Learning?

In early 2001, MIT president Charles M. Vest announced the establishment of OpenCourseWare, a 10-year project that will make nearly all of MIT's course materials available on the Internet, free of charge to anyone. So, what does that mean for other colleges and universities? More important, what does that mean to for-profit e-learning suppliers?

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