Overview of content related to 'learning objects'
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A learning object is "a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective". The term is credited to Wayne Hogins when he created a working group in 1994 bearing the name though the concept was first described by Gerard in 1967. Learning objects go by many names, including content objects, chunks, educational objects, information objects, intelligent objects, knowledge bits, knowledge objects, learning components, media objects, reusable curriculum components, nuggets, reusable information objects, reusable learning objects, testable reusable units of cognition, training components, and units of learning. Learning objects offer a new conceptualization of the learning process: rather than the traditional "several hour chunk", they provide smaller, self-contained, re-usable units of learning. They will typically have a number of different components, which range from descriptive data to information about rights and educational level. At their core, however, will be instructional content, practice, and assessment. A key issue is the use of metadata. Learning object design raises issues of portability, and of the object's relation to a broader learning management system. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Learning Objects)
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News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2008, issue54, news and events |
Newsline |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2007, issue53, news and events |
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective |
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. |
October 2005, issue45, feature article |
Open Educational Resources Hack Day |
Kirsty Pitkin reports on a two-day practical hack event focusing on Open Educational Resources (OER), held by DevCSI and JISC CETIS in Manchester on 31 March - 1 April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
RDN/LTSN Partnerships: Learning Resource Discovery Based on the LOM and the OAI-PMH |
Andy Powell and Phil Barker explore the technical collaboration currently underway between the RDN and the LTSN and describe the RDN/LTSN LOM Application Profile and its use to support resource discovery. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Repositories Support Project Summer School |
Jackie Knowles reports on the RSP Summer School, a 48-hour intensive learning programme for new institutional repository administrators, organised by the Repositories Support Project Team. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
Repository Fringe 2010 |
Martin Donnelly (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR |
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
Sun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meeting |
Vicky Mays and Ian Dolphin review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit |
Julie Allinson, Sebastien Francois and Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
Syndicated Content: It's More Than Just Some File Formats? |
Paul Miller takes a look at issues arising from the current enthusiasm for syndicating content to portals or other web sites, and offers some guidelines for good practice. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
The DARE Chronicle: Open Access to Research Results and Teaching Material in the Netherlands |
Leo Waaijers reflects on four years of progress and also looks ahead. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
The Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) 2009 |
Rosie Jones reports on a three-day conference about Information Literacy held by CILIP CSG Information Literacy Group at Cardiff University over 30 March - 1 April 2009. |
April 2009, issue59, event report |
The MrCute Repository: The Next Phase |
Helen Brady describes the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
The Personalisation of the Digital Library |
Michelle Perrott and Anne Ramsden report on the Joint Open University - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Seminar on Personalisation and Digital Libraries hosted at the Open University, October 2002. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference |
Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy and Maureen Pennock find themselves contemplating e-frameworks, digital curation and repositories at the JISC Annual Conference. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting |
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. |
April 2006, issue47, event report |
The Second International M-Libraries Conference |
Keren Mills reports on a two-day conference exploring and sharing delivery of services and resources to users 'on the move,' via mobile and hand-held devices. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace |
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
The Video Active Consortium: Europe's Television History Online |
Johan Oomen and Vassilis Tzouvaras provide an insight into the background and development of the Video Active Portal which offers access to television heritage material from leading archives across Europe. |
October 2007, issue53, feature article |
Towards an Application Profile for Images |
Mick Eadie describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC. |
April 2008, issue55, feature article |
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings |
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Version Identification: A Growing Problem |
Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project. |
January 2008, issue54, feature article |
What Are Your Terms? |
Pete Johnston introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project and examines some of the challenges it is facing. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
What Do Application Profiles Reveal about the Learning Object Metadata Standard? |
Jean Godby assesses the customised subsets of metadata elements that have been defined by 35 projects using the LOM standard to describe e-learning resources. |
October 2004, issue41, feature article |
