This NSF funded project does a good job of bringing together the elements that engage and allow for interaction that builds learning. Teachers' Domain is a project by the Public TV station in Boston, producer of many of the leading scientific programs on PBS (like NOVA) and was built to showcase how their TV programs could be restructured to have more value online.
What interests me most is the design of the 'courses' that support the teaching of specific subjects. It is through the subject pedagogy that technology is embedded, and hence, the literacy skills are integrated.
What Nortel LearniT could and should provide are short tutorials that work around 'templates' of the materials that we can collect and/or provide that allow other teachers to do the same thing, but with other rich media materials that they have available. Growing adoption of rich media repositories from Discovery Education (United Streaming), NASA and others, are ideally postured to work with this strategy. What needs to be built, are the 'roadmaps', such as the structure within Teachers' Domain, that allows teachers to build a true learning experience around their core subject resources.
Do you know of other examples of similar online training using rich media collections?
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