Research prospects within LRMI

[Adams]

What does LRMI expect from researchers in the field or at college
level instructional designers? I assume the initiative will open lots
of doors to research once it is published. Are there areas currently
available for research? Or at least does it welcome research interests
from people to invest their time to meet the LRMI goals?

[Paul Libbrecht]

Adams,

This is an interesting thought. Being a researcher myself, I have to say I am not sure research can be useful now.
I view the LRMI twist is about a revision in practicality of learning resources metadata, especially as opposed to LOM and probably DC-ed.
So I personally see the value of LRMI in its power of adoption. Can the research help there? Maybe.

Now, surely, there are new things that can be more easily done with "typical deployments" of LRMI.
So an investigation on "newly easy approaches" can be contributed by the research.
I would have two suggestions though:
- make it happen fast (blog tomorrow, don't write a journal paper)
- make it look realistic with a tasty blend of teacher, learner, and contemporary servers. I've seen far too many investigations presenting "a Moodle, and a spice of two modules, and three other reasoning servers" which I never saw applicable in any normal university.

Beware, this was my personal opinion only.

paul

[Adams]

I understand that LRMI mission is universal and doesn't
particularly apply to the US educational policies. Don't designers and
developers need to start designing extensions/plugins that tweak the
search results to meet the US educational standards especially when it
comes to competencies? I am actually interested in something like
this.  LRMI doesn't care of what happens when search results are
generated so I assume end users users would be free to personalize
results to what best fits their needs. Thanks. -Adams
On Dec 27 2011, 6:28 pm, Paul Libbrecht <plibbre...@curriki.org>
wrote: