Commerce model for learning objects
“…There then (after the definition and location of usable learning objects) remain three problems facing the creation of a “model that would allow for fair compensation” for the use of learning resources:
1. How to ask for payment (and to specify use conditions)
2. How to actually make the payment, and
3. How to make delivery of the learning resource contingent on the payment.
Let us look at each of these in turn…”
Very interesting article – I sent a pretty incoherent e-mail to George Siemens (who also pointed me to this article) on this very subject (unfortunately before I read this article). I’ve been chewing over the ability to include some sort of encryption of rss feed content, preseumably with a key pair, that would enable someone to restrict/sell certain content through rss.
The idea has a lot in common with what Stephen Downes is talking about – admittedly his is a well researched and engaging article, and mine, er….Anyway, as I’m *really* getting into the habit of recycling earlier thoughts, here’s what I wondered out loud earlier:
“…Do you think SCORM compliance meets the needs of shareable content? I know my company makes our content SCORM compliant (although there are ‘levels’ of compliance) to enable content to be used in a number of LMS/LCMS’s – spitting scoring etc out of it’s API. I don’t know whether it contains the sort of metadata that would be required to enable sharing/use across systems.
I’m also of the view that the industry will completely ignore any ‘free/open source’ initiative – do you think this will hinder the acceptability of any standard that emerges?
I was chewing over the possibility of encrypting content within an rss feed – and actually including the public key in the feed as well – there could be a trusted commerce model in there somewhere – one that would ‘scale’ within a standard – free content gets distributed in the same way/alongside private/commercial content – you distribute the unlock part of the key pair to those who you trust/have paid – perhaps the same model for learning content objects will emerge?”
Hmm, I think the lazyweb needs a visit from me. The lazyweb idea is pure genius, btw.