Where Are...
Where are the learning materials that have been built from so-called "learning objects"? There ought to be some out there.
There ought to be examples with the same object has been reused in different ways. Or where a series of objects strung together has been recast into a different form.
Beside the Connexions project, I have yet to see 'em. I am not sure I believe in learning objects.
There ought to be examples with the same object has been reused in different ways. Or where a series of objects strung together has been recast into a different form.
Beside the Connexions project, I have yet to see 'em. I am not sure I believe in learning objects.
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It occurs to me that we each have made up our minds or at least our minds are shaped by our experience with and knowledge of learning objects, which, I suggest, are from the perspective of observer rather than user. If this is true, it makes it easy to hypothesize or conclude what is true about, what is right (or wrong), about learning objects. There is evidence that objects are reused and reused in different ways, but finding this out requires looking for it. At the NLII Fall Focus Session on LOs Rusty Lowe gave a great illustration of re-use. She, like others as referenced in this discussion, are stringing them together which doesn't really forward the notion of knowledge management - the instructor is still managing the knowledge, the learner is not.
For me, a combination of IMS learning design and Carnegie Mellon's SCORM guide nudges along to where we should be going... but ths missing link is still *user/learner* ability to aggregate objects and create their own. As long as 'we' are stringing institutionally or vendor made objects together and deciding how they should be described (via metadate) and accessed (through repositories) then we are locked into a 20th century model of knowledge that is controlled by the few rather than knowledge that is generated by the many.
Power to the people:-)
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