Most learning objects are in one of very few traditional didactic forms: the lecture, the seminar, the tutorial, the paper, the book. The recent experience of eLearning is that these forms do not transfer well to e-formats without significant modification.
In contrast, the most common form taken by modern broadcast media is the “interview”. The interview format is surprisingly robust in an e-medium. Indeed, for busy professionals, the concept of the “ask the expert” interview is readily understood and commonly used in all media.
Hard issues for educational technologists include: how to create learning objects, how to annotate them, and how to get learners to engage with them? A variety of systems are trying to make it easy to generate powerful learning objects. A constructivist would suggest that the only real learning comes from asking the critical questions, or answering them. But listening to a well-crafted interview can still be pretty compelling – maybe you can do both?

Flashmeeting lets you record meetings, quickly and easily. If the meeting has some interesting content, then you have a potentially valuable learning object. The purpose of this activity is to generate some quality interview content for the Prolearn Network as quickly and easily.

Check out this very simple example of an Interview :
http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/memo.php?pwd=6ebb67-1336
This one comes ‘embedded’ in a highly interactive wiki, where it is used.

Of course, the technology doesn’t ensure a compelling argument, a well-structured discussion, an interviewer who can cut to the critical issues with good questions, or an interviewee who has something worth saying…

Using FlashMeeting to create “an interview” learning object for the Virtual Competence Centre. Interviews should last no longer than 10-20 minutes. Shorter is better. This gives you time for, say, 5-10 key question topics with reasonable answers. You can annotate and publish this interview.