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Found on O’Reilly Radar

February 8, 2008 | Filed under: General

There’s a good post at O’Reilly radar (http://radar.oreilly.com/) today:

The piece is a thoughtful examination of how one content producer — Reuters — envisions how the future of the web (specifically, the semantic web) will affect its own directions.  It’s not hard to see parallels to Capella here: like Reuters, we are producing “professional data,” we provide content that is “raw material for analysis,” and we need to understand that consumers will increasingly be dissatisfied with text-only experiences.

 In fact, here’s a fun exercise: read the post, but whereever Tim O’Reilly refers to “news” substitute “education”; wherever he refers to “Reuters” substitute “Capella”; whenever he refers to “investors” substitute “learners”  See what I mean? The principles of the semantic web related to “professional data” are relevant to Capella, clearly. 

The most interesting portion is where O’Reilly talks about the value of making content programmable, so it can be consumed in ways the producer didn’t envision. Somewhere in here is where we can start to see the place where our learning outcomes transparency / course development initiatives and our learner experience / iGuide transformation initiatives will eventually converge.  Call it the grand unification of structured, outcomes-based educational content and rich learner experience.

Of course, here’s the challenge: how do we get there?

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