Learning Objects FACE Overview

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Learning Objects _at_ FACE - Overview

• Past, Present Future of L.O.s
• Exploring Learning Objects - SFEU
• Demonstration of Digital Repositories
• More about L.O.s
• Optional Exercises
• Discussion L.O.s Whats the Big Deal?
• Professional Practice
• Institutional Change

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Past, Present Future of L.O.s

• Past
• CBT, Aviation, Military
• Influence of ISD and Programmed Learning
• Lots of work on Developing Standards (IMS, IEEE,
  etc)
• Present
• Now entering main stream education
• Standards still being developed (!)
• Systemic Infrastructure Issues (technical and
  human)

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Past, Present Future of L.O.s

• Future(s)
• The Groundhog Day Effect (Mayes)
• Driver for Corporatism in Education (Cornford)
• Move away from Craft Model of Pedagogy
• From Cottage Industry to Mass Production of
  Teaching
• Opening up the Secret Garden of the Curriculum
• The Return of the Learner?
• The Reflective Practitioner?