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Anna Karenina Principle. As applied to Learning Objects. Anna Karenina Principle. As applied to Learning Objects. Effective learning objects are all alike; every ineffective learning object is ineffective in its own way.
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Anna Karenina Principle As applied to Learning Objects
Anna Karenina Principle As applied to Learning Objects
Effectivelearning objects are all alike; every ineffectivelearning object is ineffective in its own way. "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
How did standards develop?
Learning Object: Example • Pedagogical purpose; to augment learning about: • Russian Literature • 19th Century Russia • Women’s Studies • Leo Tolstoy • Film Studies • Cinematic Theory • Acting • Content
METADATA : early example Tolstoy, Leo Anna Karenina Russian translation.
Anything & Everything Asset Component Learning Resource Anything for Learning Educational object Learning object Anything digital RLO Unit of learning Unit of study Specific Learning Environment Content object Information object Knowledge object Media object Raw media element RIO
Digital only Specific Context Alberta Learning Cisco Systems Koper 2001 Rehak 2002 Sloep 2003 Wieseler 1999 Anything Digital Wiley 2000 Courseware E-texts E-video MP3 file text video Digital for Education Ally Dunning 2002 Koper 2003 Polsani 2003 Sosteric & Hesemeier 2003 Learning specific only Generic &specific use Downes 2003 Friesen 2001 IEEE Anything & Everything Doorten, 2003 Quinn 2000 Anything for Learning tissue paper brick people text books instructors Digital & Non-Digital
Anything Digital Wiley 2000 Stated Educational Purpose Dunning 2002 Koper 2003 Wieseler 1999 Sosteric & Hesemeier 2002 Polsani 2003 Specific Educational Purpose Alberta Learning 2002 Cisco Systems 2001 Koper & vanEs 2003 Rehak 2003 Sloep 2003 Anything for Learning Doorten et al, 2003 Quinn 2000 IEEE Anything & Everything Downes 2003 Friesen 2003
A Practical Definition any reusable digital resource that is encapsulated in a lesson or assemblage of lessons grouped in units, modules, courses, and even programmes
Lesson a piece of instruction, normally including a learning purpose or purposes
Learning objects Programme Course Module Lesson Component Course
Learning object metaphors Modular
CanCore Canadian Core Fields and Vocabulary • More than an application profile • For “implementation” & record creation • an interpretation & simplification ofALL 76 elements of the IEEE LOM • FULL compatibility with IMS & LOM http://www.cancore.ca
CanCore Standards CAN be implemented with different vocabularies BUT SHOULD they? http://www.cancore.ca
CanCore International Metadata Standard for Learning Objects IEEE LOM P1484.12/IMS ARIADNE/SCORM Dublin Core Expressed through > XML/SGML
To be useful a learning object must possess many different characteristics. Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at usability “To be domesticated a species must possess many different characteristics. Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication” - Jared Diamond