Had a lot of fun preparing a class on the history of Human-Computer Interaction. Slides below, with numerous references to video material - the Web is a wonderful source of material on behalf of this kind of topic… (And yes, I got some of the material from our repository network!)

I must have done something right, because of the fact that I am now a “Presentation SuperStar on SlideShare”, featuring on the slideshare homepage   ! BTW, we should definitely do something similar in learning object repositories: all of us appreciate a compli

Andy Powell has some valuable feedback on metadata as well as repositories, extrapolating from his experiences with music at blip.fm as well as spotify.
I agree with an estimated all all of what Andy mentions, including the importance of

social activity around content;
a resource oriented approach;
a REST based architectural style;
designing on behalf of “residents” rather than “visitors”;
linking to related things;
R

I didn’t anticipate that the first question someone would request me upon arriving in Saudi-Arabia would be whether I am related to Robert Duvall   There were quite a few other things I didn’t expect: people are extremely lovely as well as interested as well as informed about the research as well as development in technology enhanced learning. We should definitely aim to integrate this part of the world better in what we do…
At the ELI conference, I presented on the Snowflake Effect as well as how it helps us to deal with the abundance of learning objects that is coming…
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The deadline on behalf of the European Conference on Digital Libraries (September 27 - October 2, 2009) is 21 March: 10 days to go!
Together with Jane Hunter, I chair the content special track:
The 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, under the general theme “Digital Societies”, plans to host a special track on Content managed in Digital Libraries.
The papers in this special track should be original as well as of high quality, addressing issues in areas such as:

Composite content as well as how both compound objects as well as their components as well as interrelationships, can be discovered, managed, re-used as well as exploited through flexible access;

If something comes my way through both Lisa Petrides and Marcia Conner, it must be worth my time - as well as yours…
The good folks at IDEO are thinking about learning. Their focus is more on K-12, but recommendations that sound as Snowflake Effect-ish as “Evolve past a one- size-fits-all mentality as well as permit mass customization” are certainly applicable before (!) as well as beyond school education, IMHO!
And here’s a recommendation that I certainly struggle with, on behalf of instance in my studio-based CHI course:
10. Change the discourse. 

If you desire to drive new behavior, you have to measure new things. Skills such as creativity as well as collaboration can’t be measured on a bubble chart. We require to create new assessments that help us understand as well as discuss the developmental progress of 21st-century skills. This is not just about measuring outcomes, but also measuring process. We require formative assessments that are just as important as numeric ones. And here’s the trick: we can’t just have the measures. We actually have to value them.
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