Who the hell is Brian Lamb?

Posted on October 26, 2009 by barrydahl

This video helps answer two burning questions:

  1. Who the hell is Brian Lamb?
  2. Why is he saying all these terrible things about Learning Objects?

Brian is one of my favorite EdTech speakers and thought leaders. He was the closing keynote speaker at the recently concluded WCET conference in Denver. My flight was scheduled to leave at about the same time that Brian’s address was scheduled to begin. I even tried to pay extra to get a seat on a later flight, but alas, none were available so I was destined to miss this event.

As luck (and good planning) would have it, Brian agreed to spend an hour with the Catalyst CAMP attendees on the day prior to his keynote. I was one of the CAMP Rangers (my cabin group was known as the Tweetarondaks) and so was able to be part of the group that spent an hour with Brian in a more informal session. He agreed to let me shoot some video during the chat and this is the first one that I’d like to share.

In this 10 minute video you’ll learn about how Brian got started working in education, and how his first job at UBC was essentially to help them build a closed-system Learning Object Repository with all the SCORM and IMS guidelines and requirements, and all that jazz. Not surprisingly, Brian tells the tale of how open-ness and simple technologies can be used much more effectively for those who truly want to share.

BTW, Brian started this session by asking the question in the title of this post, and wondered why we should care what he had to say. We cared.

(Post edited 3/20/13)

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6 Responses

  1. Alan Shapiro, on October 27, 2009 at 6:33 am said:

    Great video, Barry! It is so true. Here in Florida, The Orange Groove is our state repository. It has taken years to get this thing to a point that it is actually usable. One of the issues in my mind is still filling out all the meta data required to submit an object to the repository. There are some good things going on within the repository…an push for Open Text Books. Right now there are over 85 within the repository.

  2. redbaiters, on October 31, 2009 at 12:24 am said:

    That is awesome, Brian Lamb is, indeed, the man. And I don;t know how you folks did it, but having him just sitting around telling stories is hime at his best, fine capture here, Barry, looking forward to more. I want to hear where he goes with this.

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