Teaching, Designing, and Sharing: A Context for Learning Objects

Mimi Recker; Jim Dorward; Deonne Dawson; Xin Mao; Ye Liu; Bart Palmer; Sam Halioris; Jaeyang Park

Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2005) pp. 197–216

This article describes a professional development model and a set of tools intended to increase teachers’ capacity for the design of instructional activities using learning objects. It then reports preliminary findings from studies involving...

Overcoming the Limitations of Learning Objects

David Wiley; Sandie Waters; Deonne Dawson; Brent Lambert; Matthew Barclay; David Wade; Laurie Nelson

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 13, No. 4 (2004) pp. 507–521

There are a number of issues that face individuals who would use learning objects for instructional purposes. These issues include problems with decontextualization, enabling meaningful reusability, and overcoming biases toward didactic approaches...

Topics: Learning Objects, Instructional Design