Friday, October 24, 2003

Learning Objects: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle This is an excellent ppt introduction to LOs and to some of the issues surrounding the limits of LOs, especially as those limits relate to facilitating the use of LOs by faculty. The presentation is from the BC Library Association Conference, May 30, 2003. Presenters--Trish Rosseel and Adnan Oayyum. ______ Learning Objects. ... Desire to explore standardization of access of LO repositories. Why use these resources? Help instructors/ instructional designers enhance course content. ... 11:43:13 AM    COMMENT []

How Everyday Things Are Made I'm reposting this piece from the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford University that I first saw cited in George Siemen's elearnspace blog. The parallels between assembly instructions and software instructions continue to fascinate. JH ______ How Everyday Things are Made: Spent the morning with my kids on this site. They loved it. Good example of learning with video/audio and limited interaction ("apply it" section). I'm reminded of how we are still in the early stages of elearning...and offerings will continue to be more sophisticated. My first exposure to the Web was a text only experience. Now, in a very short period of time, the browsing experience has become interactive, media-rich, and user-friendly (in many cases). We have the background of Web progression to direct our efforts in elearning...so it's safe to say that over the next five years, we'll see an exponential improvement in the quality of elearning materials. [elearnspace blog] 9:10:18 AM    COMMENT []