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Sunday, April 06, 2003
Collections, Convections, and Confections - Steven W. Gilbert
.... Perhaps a few years ago we could believe that information about the "really good stuff" on the Web would be passed along effectively and naturally the way heat from a burner evenly fills an oven. When there were only a few educators using the Internet, the number of resources and volume of e-mail were small enough to rely on a kind of convection process. However, now we don’t have the luxury of simplicity—there are too many choices and too much information. We can’t keep the oven closed—we can’t even control the heat. As a result, many bright people and respected organizations are trying to bring order to this chaos. They are developing well-organized sets of learning objects, systems of categorizing instructional modules, and ways of applying processes like peer review to provide better evaluative information. These emerging collections help, but alone cannot solve the underlying problems.
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