Tidsskriftet Computers in Human Behavior (CHB) journal skal ha et spesialnummer om Education and pedagogy with learning objects and learning designs - se invitasjon til å bidra med artikkel (PDF). Frist for å sende inn abstract er midten av september.
Norm Friesen, som i mange år har drevet kanadiske CanCore (Canadas Learning Resource Metadata Initiative) har sammen med Darryl Cressman anlagt et syn på standardisering som er svært likt mitt eget i et utkast til bokkapittel publisert in Friesens blogg.
Her nytter han aktør-nettverksteori - på samme måte som jeg gjorde i min masteroppgave for IT-universitetet i Gøteborg i 2003. Morsomt!
I dag hadde jeg den udelte gelde å presentere en artikkel på WCCE 2005-konferansen i Sør-Afrika. Artikkelen har den klingende tittel: "STANDARDIZATION AS A PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATION -
THE NEED FOR AUXILIARY MEANS" og kan lastes ned i full tekst - og du fatter interesse for følgende sammendrag:
Standardization is a particular kind of professional conversation negotiating meaning among stakeholders who would like to inscribe their interests into abstract, formal and often technical specifications of technology. This paper examines the need for cultural tools to facilitate this negotiation. In the design of learning technologies the teachers are often alienated by the technical lingo of the educational technologist. On the other hand, the technologists get very bored by the abstract and often imprecise terminology used by the educational community. However, if the communication between these two communities is not good, we do not get the tools and learning technology we need to support teaching and learning.
The paper will look into different theoretical and practical aspects of the professional conversation in the learning technology and standardization field. Use cases might be such a tool to enhance communication, identified by an standards body as well suited to represent user needs that often have not a voice of their own in the standardization process. A case study of an international meeting presented in the paper, indicates that the introduction of such tools will not be easy. Inductive down up approaches, e.g. use cases, might be more difficult to implement than top down approaches with abstract concepts as boundary objects.