What is the first thought coming out when you hear online learning/ elearning?
I remember the first time when I hear this new leanring environment in 2001. I was thinking..."ok..who is going to be my teacher, and where are my classmate?"
Around 2001, I signed up a online English learning program, which allows you practice English speaking with people from other contry. This is my first Elearning experience. The other Elearning experience was in spring 2007, I first took a online couse at CSULA. To be honest, that elearning experience was so.........isolating.. and lonely. The only person that I have communication was my instructor. Ironically, we communicated by EMAIL only.
As we have learned so much in this quarter, we now know that IDT is appealing and boosting in educaiton field. A lot schools provide online courses for undergraduate even for the graduates also. The insteresting finding is some very aggressive schools even compete to each other, and enrich their technology so the students who taking online courses can have better enviornment and experiences. The other new trend that has been very popular is the Second Life world. Now, we have a whole new experience of online learning. All the classmates can meet in Second Life ,do the presentation in Second Life and listen to a lecture too. So now online learning is no longer isolating.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
EDIT451-Post 5 -Metadata
Before I read this chapter, I have no idea about what Metadata mean.
Although I have been using and creating metadata for my class, school and daily so long.
Metadata is INFORMATION about a RESOURCE. In other word, Metadata is the resource's detail data or information.
Different Metadata comes different meaning:
Basic descriptive metadata (Called bibliographic metadata)
For example, title, Author, description, identifier, subject and keyword.
Contextual metadata:
Information about the objectives,target audience, audience levels and difficulties, and relative information about context can be categorized into contextual metadata.
Right metadata:
For example:
copyright, terms of use and contact information for obtaining permission.
Technical mtadata:
Format, platform requirements, software requirements and structural information.
Usage information:
Documentation and guides.
The major difference between metadata and database is that metadata is only for strucuring certain module/template and the information for certain module and template. In other hand, database is bigger and for store the data that we have and collect.
Although I have been using and creating metadata for my class, school and daily so long.
Metadata is INFORMATION about a RESOURCE. In other word, Metadata is the resource's detail data or information.
Different Metadata comes different meaning:
Basic descriptive metadata (Called bibliographic metadata)
For example, title, Author, description, identifier, subject and keyword.
Contextual metadata:
Information about the objectives,target audience, audience levels and difficulties, and relative information about context can be categorized into contextual metadata.
Right metadata:
For example:
copyright, terms of use and contact information for obtaining permission.
Technical mtadata:
Format, platform requirements, software requirements and structural information.
Usage information:
Documentation and guides.
The major difference between metadata and database is that metadata is only for strucuring certain module/template and the information for certain module and template. In other hand, database is bigger and for store the data that we have and collect.
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