learning objects

Learning objects in project-based learning

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Here’s the paper I’ll be presenting at the “Learning Objects Symposium”:http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/symposium2003.htm at this year’s EdMedia: Using O2 to Overcome Learning Objects Limitations. It explains what I feel are some of the weaknesses with the ways people have traditionally thought about LOs (this will sound familiar if you know my work), and describes a project we … Read more

The Use is the Context

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So “D’Arcy”:http://commons.ucalgary.ca/weblogs/dnorman/000089.html, “Brian”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/archives/000082.html, and “Alan”:http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/lora/ have been talking about using Trackback to contextualize learning objects. This is truly excellent! One of the goals of the “Instructional Architect”:http://ia.usu.edu/ was to facilitate automated recommendations (aka collaborative filtering) of learning objects, i.e., “people who used this learning object also used these other three.” However, we were only capable … Read more

Will the “real” community please stand up?

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Something Stephen said in a recent post has had me thinking quite a bit lately (and I’m too lazy to go find the post again now, doubtless someone will point it out in the comments). Stephen commented that he was “glad to see David [me] reaching out to the learning objects community.” It was such an interesting comment because I considered myself deeply entrenched in the learning objects community.

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