29 April 2003

JIME led me to the story of a learning object - a detailed and thougtful case study of the creation, use and reuse of one object. 3:57:18 PM    comment []

JIME Special Issue - Commentary and Debate on: Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to eLearning The realities of reusability are surely still worth chewing over, and some little-discussed topics are revived here - eg Symeon Retalis on behaviour of learning objects: "Despite the fact that there are many attributes in learning object metadata description, they do not fully capture the "behavior" of a learning object. A learning object is created with specific learning objectives in mind, holds specific behavior and interoperates with other surrounding learning objects. Isolating a learning object and reusing it, means that either this learning object can remain intact since it might fit well to the new learning context, or this learning object needs changes. In the latter and most usual case, not only do technological problems arise but also instructional. A learning object does not only have its own characteristics and learning value but its relationship with other learning objects offers additional learning experiences". 11:54:21 AM    comment []