RLOs: Education if Engineers Did It
After 5,
Nov 03, 2003
While the concept of plug-and-play may work for hardware, suggests the author, reusability in e-learning may be more of a challenge because there is no such thing as context-free learning. "A simple example of reusable learning objects is the topics in software help files. You need to do something and don’t know how. You search the help feature. You spend fifteen frustrating minutes skimming through information that tells you everything expect what you need to know." Of course, criticizing Windows help is a little like shooting fish in a barrel; there is no context in which their mangled assistance could be of aid. But the point is well taken; reusability will not work unless content retrieval can be context sensitive.
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