how to educate engineers ends up with just another metadata discussion. at least for me, so far:

We cannot (solely) rely on humans for metadata creation: humans "don't scale" and humans are not perfect. More importantly, producing metadata is not exactly fun! (amg)

it's not fun to be perfect and i don't want to be. yet, the machine doesn't know what i don't know ...

maybe of interest: grand research challenges for learning objects.

at least one guy so far told me what i think, too. - besides that nobody says "e-learning" in europa any more but uses the clumsy slogan "technology-supported lifelong learning" (wondering when the first lifelong learner will die and with him the word), this ict learning approach is just good for applying for money. you can get funding for fancy and expensive pilot studies, but as soon as the money flow dries out the efforts at the institutions stop as well. he should know as he works for the eu committee for eQuality learning.