Friday, October 03, 2003

Three Articles about Learning Objects Learning Object Tutorial. ... All About Learning Objects. ... Learning objects are the core concept in an approach to learning content in which content is broken down into "bite size" chunks. ... [Google Alert results for: learning objects] 12:01:23 PM    COMMENT []

Learning Circuits -- ASTD's Online Magazine All About E-Learning. A Primer on Learning Objects By Warren Longmire. Designers and developers ... interventions. Why develop content as learning objects? Most electronic ... [Google Alert results for: learning objects] 12:00:22 PM    COMMENT []

Distributing Learning Objects This short article by Stephen Downes focuses on important issues related to distributing and finding learning objects. Federated Search System, Harvested Search Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Search Systems are discussed and illustrated in the article. The article appeared Oct. 5, 2003 in the Australian Flexible Learning Community electronic newsletter. "The three major models may be differentiated along a number of axes, however from the point of view of educational content one of the most useful axes is the degree of control over learning resources offered by different systems. In a federated system, because both the search and access to the objects are handled by individual collections, the greatest degree of control is allowed. By contrast, since a peer-to-peer system distributes both the search and the objects, the least degree of control exists. A harvesting system, which freely distributes search results but allows repositories to control their own objects, offers a middle approach." 8:05:05 AM    COMMENT []