Colis- Secondary usage metadata

"Implications for COLIS for course development: The need for secondary usage metadata"
By Robyn Philip and Prof. James Dalziel, both from Macquarie Uni.

ODLAA Forum Paper 2003

The message for me out of this paper was the importance of the context in which a learning object [or digital asset or whatever] is to be used. It suggests that teachers will be hesitant about using an object developed by others, but encouraged if there is information available about how it was used:
"not only information about who used it and where, but information about its effectivenesss, the context of its use and ideas about how it might be used differently could be added to the searchable database. This user's log detailing usability and suitability would be expected to improve a Learning Object or learning activity's potential relevance to others, and therefore it's reuse" (p5)