Works that involve Internet technology have been problematic for museums to show, to the point of exclusion. ArtStream, a Webbased, curated exhibition space for Internet art, seeks to promote the work of Internet artists while bringing it into the "legitimized" world of traditional museum culture. ArtStream is the product of a collaboration between the University of Arizona Museum of Art and the Treistman Center for New Media, in the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts. The project was funded by a New Learning Environments grant from the university.

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This chapter discusses the reasoning behind the lack of the expected authoring of digital learning objects. It argues that the creation and dissemination of learning objects by university faculty have not occurred as a result of technical hurdles and frightening acronyms, lack of organizational procedures, unclear legal and ownership issues, and the ineffectiveness of “selling” the idea to faculty as part of the promotion and tenure process. The technology, interfaces and storage devices have been in place for some time, waiting for the learning object authors to publish their work. The Pachyderm 2.0 software is discussed as a tool for faculty to utilize. The author hopes that discussing and enumerating the obstacles to learning object authoring and dissemination, combined with the proposal of using the Pachyderm software along with a model of working with organizational information technology (IT) staff, will assist all involved in circulating successful digital learning objects.

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ArtStream, a Web-based, curated exhibition space for Internet art, seeks to promote the work of Internet artists while bringing it into the "legitimized" world of traditional museum culture. Therefore, ArtStream makes it easy for a curator from a less technical background to administer an exhibit. ArtStream is the product of a collaboration between the University of Arizona Museum of Art and the Treistman Center for New Media, in the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts. The project was funded by a New Learning Environments grant from the university.