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Foil 62 Educational Glossary II

From General NPAC Foils-98A starting January 98 (PowerPoint) Physics Colloquium -- March 19 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Distributed Educational Object: Unit of Instruction which can be re-used and addressed using either Web or CORBA model of distributed objects
  • Could be a Web page in HTML, Java, VRML or larger or smaller granularity
  • Natural size is a "screenful" which can be aggregated
"Metadata": Aspects of educational objects which are inherited from their view as documents
  • Author, Version, Abstract etc.
  • Naturally arranged hierarchically from foil,foilset,course,curricula, department,University, Country ...
Educational Object properties: are those properties specific to its educational use and would differ between computer science and physics
  • "Programming Laboratory features"; Java simulations of Physics etc.

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