Learning Objects - Portal site.

Learning about Learning Objects. This portal site about learning objects at the San Diego Community College District is well designed, both attractive and functional. The site illustrates how to start a local community of users who create and share information about using LOs. (First sighted in elearnspace blog.) ___ JH [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]

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Traditional Instructors and Online Resources.

This is a thoughtful post on what is required in order that traditional instructors start using online resources, and particularly learning objects. I think this applies to many "synchronous" instructors as well as to university faculty. To read the complete posting, click here. -- BB

Finding Online Instructional Resources. ... hardly any instructors know about or make use of learning objects that they import into their own course modules. ... I agree with David Davies (see enclosure) that truly widespread use of learning objects among non-techies will not happen until an LO construction tool is released that makes the development of LOs as easy as using a word processor. However, even before that step occurs, instructors can be assisted to effectively locate and use resources that already exist on the net and to put what they find into local repositories/referatories. [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]

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