Subject: Learning Objects: adaptable?
From: Kurt Rowley (krowley@megatutor.com)
Date: Sat 12 Feb 2000 - 00:08:35 MET
From: "Kurt Rowley" <krowley@megatutor.com> Subject: Learning Objects: adaptable? Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 18:08:35 -0500
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As an instructional designer I can not imagine using externally constructed
learning objects in commercial-grade computer-based courses, as every nuance
of every visual and interactive component of the system must be fine-tuned
to harmonize with the course themes, topics, learning objectives, examples,
and often a customized instructional strategy. Only learning objects from a
nearly-identical course would be useful in that sort of application. On the
other hand, for casual learning the abruptness of differing treatments that
one would expect with interoperable learning objects might be acceptable.
> Having read the paper under discussion currently I have a couple of
> questions to pose, which may seem banal: however, always
> practical-minded I wonder how we will use learning objects that use
> differing styles of presentation, expression and so on. If one were to
> string a couple together would the result be a coherent course? Would
> such objects be adaptable by users to the desired context?
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