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November 8, 2005

Wiley on Content as Infrastructure

iterating toward openness » Content is Infrastructure

The issue of how to localize content is one that is vexing many designers right now. David's approach is to look at OSS and follow that model:

I think we have to approach educational materials in this same way (and let others approach it in this way). You can’t create educational materials that function effectively in every single context any more than you can write software that runs on every single platform (no Java comments, please). I think we should focus on solving specific instructional problems, and make sure that our solution at least works for someone. Then other developers can "port" our materials to their "platform," or in other words, other instructional designers can adapt our materials to solve local instructional problems.

Thought-provoking post...

Posted by Rovy at November 8, 2005 2:50 AM