David Davies: WorkFor sometimes we have to be serious.(Untitled)- April 4, 2002 There is a major new e-learning consortium project that is exploring the potential to set up a global virtual medical school. It's presently in the feasibility stage and I've just come back from a steering group meeting. There are around 40 international medical schools signed up already. There will hopefully be a public web site soon so for now I won't go into any details about the partners or how this consortium will operate. What I can talk about are some of the issues we discussed as...http://radio.weblogs.com/0001161/categories/myProfession/2002/04/04.html#a169 (Untitled)- April 2, 2002 I'm interested in being able to share my learning resources with you and if you're willing to do the same then maybe our institutions might be able to spread the risk and burden of developing web-based teaching and learning materials. The components of my teaching and learning materials, images, video clips, text, questions, are called reusable learning objects (RLOs). These RLOs are stored in databases and each RLO has its own metadata, data that helps you find it when searching for...http://radio.weblogs.com/0001161/categories/myProfession/2002/04/02.html#a168 |