Browsing by Author "Friesen, Norman"
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The Athabasca University edusource Project: Building An Accessible Learning Object Repository
Anderson, Terry; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; McGreal, Rory; Friesen, Norman; Ally, Mohamed; Graham, Rodger; Tin, Tony; Moisey, Susan D.; Petrinjak, Anita; Schafer, Steve (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005)Athabasca University - Canada's Open University (AU) made the commitment to put all of its courses online as part of its Strategic University Plan. In pursuit of this goal, AU participated in the eduSource project, a ... -
Edusource: Canada's Learning Object Repository Network
McGreal, Rory; Anderson, Terry; Babin, Gilbert; Downes, Stephen; Friesen, Norman; Harrigan, Kevin; Hatala, Marek; MacLeod, Doug; Mattson, Mike; Paquette, Gilbert; Richards, Griff; Roberts, Toni; Schafer, Steve (International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2004)An alliance of Canadian Universities and government agencies pooled their resources to establish a network to share and combine Learning Objects from a variety of sources and further develop this technology. In the process, ... -
eduSource: Creating learning object repositories in Canada
McGreal, Rory; Richards, Griff; Friesen, Norman; Paquette, Gilbert; Downes, Stephen (IEEE Learning Technology Task Force (LTTF) Newsletter, 2003-01)EduSource is a comprehensive project that ties together various work packages and creates synergies between its partners and associates. All of the partners are Canadian organizations and meaningful work will be carried ... -
The evolution of learning object repository technologies: Portals for On-line Objects for Learning
Richards, Griff; McGreal, Rory; Hatala, Marek; Friesen, Norman (Canadian Association of Distance Education, 2003)Learning objects are the digital files that are used to construct e-learning experiences, and repositories provide mechanisms to encourage their discovery, exchange, and reuse. Portals for On-line Objects in Learning ... -
Interaction For Lifelong Learning
Friesen, Norman; Anderson, Terry (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004)Abstract The term ‘lifelong’, as applied to education or learning, has been in circulation for more than a quarter of a century. It has played an important role in policy discussions, as well as in studies of the sociology ... -
International E-learning specifications. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Friesen, Norman; McGreal, Rory (International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2002-10)A previous report in this series discussed the classification of online course delivery systems according to the Advanced Distributed Learning Partnerships (ADL), and the international standards accepted by the ADL. The ... -
Learning object repository technologies for telelearning: The evolution of POOL and CanCore
Richards, Griff; McGreal, Rory; Friesen, Norman (Proceedings of the IS2002, Informing Science + IT Education Conference, 2002-07)Repositories provide mechanisms to encourage the discovery, exchange and re-use of learning objects. This paper describes Portals for On-line Objects in Learning (POOL), a consortium project of the TeleLearning NCE to ... -
"Metadata Possibilities: from the IEEE LOM through Dublin Core to ...the "Cloud"?
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Re-Thinking E-Learning Research
Friesen, Norman (2010-03-16)In education, novel practices, applications, and forms-- from bulletin boards to Webcasts, and from online educational games to open educational resources -- have been proliferating rapidly. However, research of these ... -
Standards: it is not just about compliance
McGreal, Rory; Friesen, Norman (Elearning Reports, 2005-01)On a recent conference tour of the Americas, and before setting off to Australia for CORDRAs and Hawaii for IEEEs PERL workshops, respectively, CanCore’s Norm Friesen and Rory McGreal took a breather to discuss the latest ...