Hi Jim, That's a good point --- and certainly not off topic :-). With evolving web technologies we have far greater opportunities for manipulating output formats -- not too mention the convergence of technology and pedagogy.
The untapped potential of the template approach is quite exciting! Specifying "instructional devices" (iDevices) as templates means that we can specify alternate behaviours for different outputs. For example: 1) Educators who don't want to include iDevices in a printed text, could excise these from the output -- as you have pointed out. 2) We can create alternate behaviours for online interactions and print-based texts. For example, in the case of a multiple choice item, we could provide online feedback for correct / incorrect answers (eg javascript hide/show). For the printed versions, we could specify that the instructor feedback on MCQ's should be printed at the end of the chapter. 3) As I mentioned in an earlier post -- with regards to rich media we could automate the generation of a CDROM image to accompany the printed text. I'm sure there are many alternatives we'll discover as we move forward. Cheers Wayne On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 16:47 +1300, Jim Tittsler wrote: > A bit of topic drift... but on a technical point rather than policy: > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 16:41, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for instructional design... this is the very reason I personally would > > appose the idea of using Wikieducator to develop text books, because we > > would see pedagogical templates and "activities" frustrating the > > information. IMO pedagogical activity should be kept separate from text > > books so as to allow teachers and learners the freedom to design their own > > processes around the content. This was Teemu Leinonen's argument back when > > we were discussing the development of the OER Handbooks. > > Don't overlook the fact that since they are in fact templates, it is > easy to excise them when printing or making a content package. MUCH > better than if there was simple activity wikitext within the page(s). > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
