WikiEdProfessional eLearning Guidebook/Digital learning objects

Professional eLearning Guidebook

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Objectives

The goals of this chapter are to: Define digital learning objects and their role in e-learning and on-line learning. Describe the processes of identifying and defining learning objects with metadata. Describe the processes of packaging, storing and distributing digital learning objects for reuse in e-learning course design, development and delivery.

Introduction
What is a learning object?
What is a digital learning object?
Characteristics of learning objects
Purpose and misconceptions
Identifying and defining digital learning objects with metadata
Processes of packaging, storing and distributing digital learning objects

Implications of an “educational object economy”