Learning Objects and Instructional design: Lessons and Trends

1. The Attack of the Learning Clones
Stylianos
Mystakidis

2. Learning Objects &
Instructional Design
Lessons and Trends

3. 1. What is a LO?

4. “any digital
resource that
can be
reused to
mediate
learning”
(Wiley 2007)

5. digital chunks of content or curriculum
that can be highly interactive, flexible,
manipulated, reusable, and soon,
accessible from any digital device

6. 2. Properties of LOs

7. Self-contained
Reusable
Flexible
Customizable
Accessible
Interoperable

8. analogy

9. LEGO

10. Atoms

11. Words to form
Sentences

12. 3. Trends

13. optimism

14. “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)

15. development of technical standards to
share content on portable devices

16. easy internationalization
of content

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

18. 4. LOs unplugged

19. Once LOs, now OER, OCW

20. Instructional Linearity
LOs as pearls

21. MOOC Learning Environment

22. Ontologies vs.
Folksonomy

23. crowdsourcing

24. Content vs.
Context

25. PLE

26. Reuse vs.
Copyright

27. write once, use everywhere
reuse = adapt, remix, share

30. Big Question

31. Open or Closed ?

32. Stylianos Mystakidis
University of Patras
blog.edu.gr
twitter: stylianosm2

33. References / Acknowledgments
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