scholarly journals The Athabasca University eduSource Project: Building an accessible learning object repository

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Cleveland-Innes ◽  
Rory McGreal ◽  
Terry Anderson ◽  
Norm Friesen ◽  
Mohamed Ally ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objects ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Work Package ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Learning Object Repository ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

<span>Athabasca University - Canada's Open University (AU) made the commitment to put all of its courses online as part of its Strategic University Plan. In pursuit of this goal, AU participated in the eduSource project, a pan-Canadian effort to build the infrastructure for an interoperable network of learning object repositories. AU acted as a leader in the eduSource work package, responsible for the metadata and standards for learning objects. In addition, the team of professionals, academics, librarians and other researchers worked to create an accessible repository of learning objects across university departments and subjects. Most critically, the team worked beyond the development of a learning object repository and considered the adaptation of content and related applications, pedagogical approaches and the use of learning objects by instructional designers, faculty and the learners themselves. This paper describes one institution's approach to learning object repository development, from a technical and pedagogical perspective, along with some of the lessons learned during the process.</span>

scholarly journals Learning Object Repository Technologies for TeleLearning: The Evolution of POOL and CanCore

10.28945/2565 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Griff Richards ◽  
Rory McGreal ◽  
Norm Friesen
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Peer Network ◽  
Learning Object Repository ◽  
On Line ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
Peer To Peer Network

Repositories provide mechanisms to encourage the discovery, exchange and re-use of learning objects. This paper describes Portals for On-line Objects in Learning (POOL), a consortium project of the TeleLearning NCE to build a learning object repository scalable to the national level. Funded in part by the Canarie Learning Program, POOL contributes to the development of two focal technologies: “POOL POND and SPLASH” a distributed architecture for a peer-to-peer network of learning object repositories, and CanCore, a practical metadata protocol for cataloguing learning objects.

scholarly journals Learning Object Repositories

10.28945/2908 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Permanand Mohan
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Learning Object Repository ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
Uniform Manner

In order to reuse learning objects created by others, they must be made available to potential users on the Web, and services must be provided to allow users to discover, obtain rights to, and use these learning objects in their own instructional scenarios. In the learning object economy, these services are typically provided by learning object repositories, which are collections of learning objects that are accessible to users via a network without prior knowledge of the structure of the collections. This chapter discusses the important role played by learning object repositories in the learning object economy. The success of the learning objects' approach depends on users worldwide (such as instructors, learners, and software agents) being able to access and search for learning objects in different repositories in a uniform manner. The first part of the chapter explains how this can be achieved using a standardized approach for accessing and describing learning objects in a repository. Standardized access and retrieval is facilitated by implementing a specification from the IMS known as the Digital Repositories Interoperability (DRI) specification, while standardized search and discovery is facilitated by implementing a metadata standard such as the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard, described earlier in the book. There are different architectural approaches and business models that can be employed when designing a learning object repository and these are discussed next in the chapter. Typical architectural choices include using a centralized repository based on the client/server approach versus using several local repositories connected in a peer-to-peer fashion. Typical choices for business models include using an online broker for advertising and receiving payment for learning objects versus making the learning objects freely available. The advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches and models are carefully examined, and concrete examples of research prototypes and real-world deployments are provided wherever appropriate.

Developing Metadata Application Profiles for Open Educational Resources Federated Repositories

2017 ◽  
pp. 118-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Zervas ◽  
Demetrios G. Sampson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objects ◽  
End Users ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
Application Profile

With many Learning Object Repositories (LORs) implemented and maintained independently from different organizations or communities, valuable Learning Objects (LOs) are scattered over different LORs and making it difficult for end-users (namely, instructional designers, teachers and students) to easily find and access them. A suggested solution towards addressing this issue is to create federated LORs, which aim to harvest and aggregate LOs' metadata from different LORs towards facilitating LOs' discovery across these LORs through a single infrastructure. However, a challenging issue during the development of federated LORs is the design of appropriate metadata application profile (AP) which supports harvesting heterogeneous metadata records from the aggregated LORs. Thus, the aim of this book chapter is twofold, namely (a) to present a methodology for developing metadata APs that can be used in building federated LORs and (b) to present a case study from the implementation of the proposed methodology for the development of the metadata AP used by the OpenDiscoverySpace federated LOR.

scholarly journals Re-Mar: Repository of Marine Learning Objects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Behr ◽  
José Cascalho ◽  
Hélia Guerra ◽  
Ana Costa ◽  
Manuela Parente ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Ocean Literacy ◽  
Learning Object Repository ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
And Coping

Current literature shows the lack of learning object repositories exclusively related to environmental education and that there is no predominant software. This paper presents Re-Mar, a marine learning object repository based on open source software. Re-Mar is a part of an effort to promote ocean literacy through educational content for students and teachers. The repository is supported by computational technologies to catalog and organize learning objects to retrieve and reuse. Our prototype shows that is possible to store, catalog, retrieve, and link learning objects to support environmental education and coping with learning objects lifecycle. This is the first step to future aggregation of linked data, ontologies, and artificial intelligence aspects.

scholarly journals Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Learning Objects

10.28945/2913 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Reflective Learning ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Practical Development ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Knowledge Objects ◽  
The Relationship

Briefly the objective of this presentation is to provide an overview of the origin of the concept and term of learning object in instructional design within the context of standardized, sharable, computer-based operations. Secondly, the philosophical foundations will be discussed mainly in terms of the framework of the crucial distinction between learning objects as mere external knowledge objects and the process of self-reflective learning that is needed to make the use of learning objects truly successful. Both the historical and philosophical foundations of learning objects will be treated in terms of the relationship between learning objects and learning subjects. The latter includes both instructional designers in the historical and practical development of learning objects, and the audience for which learning objects are intended to help educate. Particularly, historical and philosophical foundations should recognize the dual trajectory towards producing standardized small curricular units and at the same time affecting, educating and even transforming learners.

scholarly journals A quantitative analysis of learning object repositories as knowledge management systems

2014 ◽  
pp. 156-170 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Knowledge Management Systems ◽  
Master List ◽  
Learning Object Repositories

Learning Object Repositories (LORs) are a core element of the Opening up Education movement around the word. Despite, the wide efforts and investments in this topic, still most of the existing LORs are designed mainly as digital libraries that facilitate discovery and provide open access to educational resources in the form of Learning Objects (LOs). In that way, LORs include limited functionalities of Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) for organizing and sharing educational communities’ explicit and tacit knowledge around the use of these educational resources. In our previous work, an initial study of examining LORs as KMSs has been performed and a master list of 21 essential LORs’ functionalities has been proposed that could address the issue of organizing and sharing educational communities’ knowledge. In this paper, we present a quantitative analysis of the functionalities of forty-nine (49) major LORs, so as (a) to measure the adoption level of the LORs’ functionalities master list and (b) to identify whether this level influences LORs’ growth as indicated by the development over time of the number of the LOs and the number of registered users that these LORs include.

scholarly journals Pedagogically Sound Learning Objects: Towards a Useful Classification

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Churchill
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Instructional Designers ◽  
Information Object ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Sound Learning ◽  
Contextual Representation

In spite of the numerous discussions in literature, the learning object remains an illdefined concept. In this paper, rather than attempting to clearly define what a learning object is, I discuss kinds of computer-based creations that might be recognized as a learning object by the community involved in design and use of technology-based educational resources. This discussion is supported by a small-scale inquiry into kinds of learning objects identified from a collection of resources developed by some teachers and instructional designers in Singapore. Six unique categories of potential learning objects were noted and defined through the inquiry: presentation object, practice object, information object, simulation object, conceptual model and contextual representation. These kinds of learning objects are discussed in this paper. The paper opens a possibility for the proposed categories to be challenged or for more categories of learning objects to emerge in further inquiries involving examination of larger repositories of learning objects.

Reusability of Online Role Play as Learning Objects or Learning Designs

2011 ◽  
pp. 761-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Wills ◽  
Anne McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Role Play ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Threaded Discussion ◽  
Learning Object Repositories ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Australian Universities

This study tracks the uptake of online role play in Australia from 1990 to 2006 and the affordances to its uptake. It examines reusability, as one affordance to uptake, from the perspective of two often polarized constructs: learning object and learning design. The study treats “reuse” in two ways: reuse of an existing online role play and reuse of an online role play as the model for another role play. The first type of reuse implies the online role play is a learning object and the second type implies the online role play derives from a learning design. Online role play consists of a scenario and a set of roles that students adopt in order to collaboratively solve a problem, create something, or explore an issue via e-mail or a combination of e-mail and Web-based threaded discussion forum. Thirty-six role plays of this type were identified in Australian universities of which 80% were reuse of a learning design. Only three examples of role play as a learning object were found, suggesting that learning design is a useful concept for understanding how to support reusability in universities. Other affordances to uptake of role play were also tracked. This indicated that the contribution of educational developers far outweighed that of academic colleagues, conferences, journals, and engines. The results have implications for the work practices of educational developers and for managers of learning object repositories.

A Low-Cost Learning Object Repository for Egyptian Teachers

2013 ◽  
pp. 307-321
Author(s):  
Alaa Sadik
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Object Repository ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Quality Learning

Within the last five years, governments and education authorities worldwide have developed and implemented approaches to facilitate access to a wide range of quality digital resources and reduce the costs of production. This chapter reports on a study which invited school teachers and university academics in Egypt, as a developing and Arabic-speaking country, to cooperate in establishing a learning object repository to store, locate, and share quality learning objects for class teaching and e-learning programs. The proposed solution is originally a vendor hosted web-based groupware, file management, and sharing system that meets the basic criteria of instructional learning object repositories called eStudio. Motivators and inhibitors to using the repository, factors that determine locating, using, and sharing learning objects within the repository and their qualities are assessed to help in developing repositories that demonstrate an understanding of the existing needs and the work practices of Egyptian teachers and other user groups.

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