Learning+Impact+2007

opening session - Rob Abel
Tuesday - vendor/tech focused Wednesday - ceo/VP focused 207 attendees, 38% from outside US; 2: 1 ratio of members:non-members top heavy with senior execs

"adaptive expertise" - learning how to learn

"potential standards are a distributed infrastructure for innovation" - hogwash

Common Cartridge equivalent to "courses"?
 * packaging
 * metadata
 * assessment
 * discussion
 * invocation off web-based apps
 * 3rd party formats (scorm, mpeg, quicktime, etc)
 * cartridge authorization info (DRM???)

Bernard Luskin - 1st keynote
yawn

reception

 * good chat with Sandy Brittain; follow up re: exe
 * follow up with publishers re: common cartridge support
 * follow up with IMS re: access to Common Cartridge

=Day 2 - Tuesday April 17= 2nd session - "Sakai as Enterprise Software for Scholarly Work" "gradable events"

sustainability of open education resources - partnering with other (often private or NGO) bodies to provide services and/or content

**Moodle presentation (OU)**
"moodle networks" - http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_Network new moodle web services API 1.9 release, sched summer 2007 moodle 2 - end of 2007?? for OU, the delivery enviornment and the open content environment (OpenLearn) are in fact different 10 developers working on Moodle at OU
 * repository api
 * learning design export
 * full support for IMS Learning Design
 * Community Hub (moodle networks)
 * student info API

Blackboard - From Island to Archipelago (Bob Alcorn)
guerilla usage patterns but data where the students want to get it, portals++ javascript is now THE critical language (yeah baby!) - Blackboard not ready for that "why not just use" worpdress, flickr, etc. MUST GET SLIDES FROM BOB ALCORN
 * tactical not strategical; says you need it to come back into VLWE; which integration models - BuildBlocks? Hub/Broker (SOA/SOAP/REST)? Mashups - consumer and producer; javascript with REST, XML, JSON