“One issue that keeps popping up in debates about learning objects is the metadata question; how are educators supposed to make an interoperable description of a learning object that will allow it to be found by others? The Reload elarning tool development project decided to attack that problem before any others, with the first results already appearing.”

Check out the RELOAD web site:

http://www.reload.ac.uk/

There's even a Mac OS X installer. Yay!