The Attack of the Learning Clones

StylianosMystakidis

Learning Objects & Instructional Design

Lessons and Trends

1. What is a LO?

“any digital resource that

can be reused to mediate learning”

(Wiley 2007)

digital chunks of content or curriculum that can be highly interactive, flexible,

manipulated, reusable, and soon, accessible from any digital device

2. Properties of LOs

Self-containedReusableFlexible

CustomizableAccessible

Interoperable

analogy

LEGO

Atoms

Words to formSentences

3. Trends

optimism

“the emerging use of learning objects will have a profound and positive impact on teaching and learning. Learning objects can serve as agents of change, making learning more fun, interesting, and provocative for teachers and students alike” (2005)

development of technical standards to share content on portable devices

easy internationalization of content

Intelligent, adaptive courseware producing unique learning paths combining LOs for each learner

4. LOs unplugged

Once LOs, now OER, OCW

Instructional Linearity

LOs as pearls

MOOC Learning Environment

Ontologies vs. Folksonomy

crowdsourcing

Content vs. Context

PLE

Reuse vs. Copyright

write once, use everywherereuse = adapt, remix, share

Big Question

Open or Closed ?

Stylianos MystakidisUniversity of Patras

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References / Acknowledgments

http://www.wbtic.com/trends_objects.aspx

http://reusability.org/read/

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http://opencontent.org/docs/lo_do.pdf

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http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/Critiques+of+Open+Education+Resources

http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/4/1/d4141b38-2470-4e16-8d0d-c8a6fe71f271/Learning%20Objects%20Summit%20White%20Paper.pdf

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