One wonders how Harasim (1990) could have made a comment about web-based learning several years before the web was invented. But if you get past this and a bit more gratuitous name-dropping you get to the heart of this paper, the gist of which isn't really revealed until last section: "If learning objects are to be single-purposed, of use only in a single context, and only appropriate to a single level of granularity and abstraction, then the value of learning object repositories will be seriously impaired. The learning object is a raw material that can be used in different ways. It is the activities you do with it and their integration in meaningful scenarios or functions that count. For this, we need a very flexible educational operations system that goes beyond fixed distance education platforms and LMSs, and that can complement other platforms or LMS by providing new repurposing capabilities." (This special issue of CJLT devoted to learning objects has just come online.)
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