Norman Lamont is frustrated again. This time, in Re-use Revisted, he wonders whether the idea that learning objects can ... there ever finds they can re-use their learning objects. Good question. The idea behind the concept of learning objects ... student groups. Learning objects could be aggregated to form complete courses of study, whether intelligently, by learning content management systems, by teachers or by learners themselves. To make this possible, learning objects had to be ... audiences. But, looking back over my own use of learning objects in the past ten years, I can see many more pluses ...

The Learning Object proponents have been trying this for years and I haven't really seen it work effectively. I'm guessing each wiki page is like a learning object that is tagged. If you select a tag then you get all of the content ... . It smells a lot like trying to put the round peg in the old square hole. Is informal/collaborative learning ...

... informal collaborative learning. In my opinion Learning2.0 is more like a combination of informal learning concepts and ... is major shift. Evolving existing eLearning courses into reusable learning objects is not that Revolution that is required for the learning community to keep up with the rapid technology and cultural changes. Reusable learning objects are ... There is a great discussion going on regarding the meaning/value of learning 2.0. Learning 2.0 is a derivative of Web 2.0 which is a loose term for many new collaborative and learner directed technologies that put the power of the ...

... content and make it searchable online for free.Sounds like a potential learning object repository to me. Read more about it ... content AND collaboration. I learn more from reading a book and discussing it than just simply reading it.Content + Collaboration = Learning(see my post on Search sucks - where's the context?)So you can see where I'm going to go with this ... ! Google is doing all kinds of interesting stuff, much of which will have an impact on learning. One of their latest ... people to content. However, as a learning resource, it falls quite short. Fundamentally the quality of the content is ...