Are there systemic and more efficient solutions that can make creating effective web-based learning easier?
The Learning Objects Initiative. This initiative, now retired, focused on stimulating and supporting the authoring of learning objects. At the time, the theoretical work that informed the software to house learning objects (repositories) was well-established, but very little work had been done on the authoring side, and it for years, it was very difficult to author effective, engaging standards-compliant learning objects. As such, the focus of the initiative was to encourage the development of tools and techniques that would make it easy to create high-quality, standards-compliant learning objects. In that pre-Web 2.0 era, a related focus generated ideas about how to use the web more effectively in general. The Pachyderm Project has its roots in this initiative, as it was initially established as a learning objects authoring platform. One outgrowth of those roots is that Pachderm continues to have a very solid IMS-conformant metadata framework that was designed into the platform from i
