Thanks Wayne. This is really great to have the WE perspective. I too
have been in the learning objects space for many years and found some
of the early pundits with their rules too limiting. I guess I should
have made this a little clearer.
For the purposes of this discussion, a learning object is the same as
an Open Educational Resource (OER), but in its broadest sense, a
learning object could also be proprietary rather than open, and paper
or stone. Learning objects are individual items or groups of items.
Definitions vary widely, with lots of different definitions and
"rules" about granularity, purpose, audience, and reuseability.
In most cases, learning object have been purpose-built or assembled by
an instructional designer, instructor, facilitator or tutor to be made
available to learners.
* Open Educational Resources - available for use without cost
though there maybe some restrictions as outline by the Creative
Commons license specified. For this discussion, the term learning
object is synonymous with Open Educational Resource, although there
may be some specific notices about fine distinctions in some cases.
* proprietary learning objects - in general, organizations may
adopt similar methodologies and content units for their internal
training materials or for educational products and services. Because
these are not openly available, they can not be examined or used.
I wasn't able to easily find specific OERs in WikiEducator that I
could just link to. I know they are there. Searches on topic keywords
yielded all sorts of pages, mostly personal sandboxes. I'm just
thinking that if I were a new teacher looking for resources for a
specific topic, I would really appreciate seeing some examples on a
variety of topics that are housed in WE.
I am particularly interested in reuse and adaptation, so I'm looking
for OERs that are usable as they are. Certainly, teachers will want to
modify them and make them their own, but getting started down this
road is proving to be very difficult for some. Colleagues are coming
from the model where a textbook provides the basic structure, pace and
activities for a course. Do-it-yourself find and assembling OERs is
too big a task for getting started. They want to see some examples and
understand how the process works.
For my current project I need examples of "good" OERs. Please provide
links to specific OERs in WikiEducator.
Thanks,
..Valerie
On Aug 14, 1:49 am, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Valerie,
>
> mmmm ... What do you mean by learning object?
>
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