Improving the Usefulness of Learning Objects by Means of Pedagogy-Oriented Design

Improving the Usefulness of Learning Objects by Means of Pedagogy-Oriented Design

Giuliana Dettori, Paola Forcheri, Maria Grazia Ierardi
ISBN13: 9781605663425|ISBN10: 1605663425|EISBN13: 9781605663432
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-342-5.ch010
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Dettori, Giuliana, et al. "Improving the Usefulness of Learning Objects by Means of Pedagogy-Oriented Design." Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies: International Issues and Solutions, edited by Mahbubur Rahman Syed, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 120-133. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-342-5.ch010

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Dettori, G., Forcheri, P., & Ierardi, M. G. (2009). Improving the Usefulness of Learning Objects by Means of Pedagogy-Oriented Design. In M. Syed (Ed.), Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies: International Issues and Solutions (pp. 120-133). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-342-5.ch010

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Dettori, Giuliana, Paola Forcheri, and Maria Grazia Ierardi. "Improving the Usefulness of Learning Objects by Means of Pedagogy-Oriented Design." In Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies: International Issues and Solutions, edited by Mahbubur Rahman Syed, 120-133. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-342-5.ch010

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Abstract

Learning Objects (LOs) are increasingly considered potentially helpful to improve teachers’ work and to spread innovation in the school system. Their technological roots, however, often make them scarcely appealing to the teachers. A key issue to tackle in order to boost their diffusion is to make them closer to actual teacher’s work by emphasising pedagogical aspects. To this end, the authors propose a typology of LOs that allows teachers to highlight differences in the pedagogical approach embedded in their productions, hence sharing not only content but also educational competence. Moreover, in order to allow re-user teachers to explicit and share the pedagogical experience gained while re-using some material, they suggest endowing repositories with ad hoc facilities, such as comments and itineraries related to the repository’s LOs. Comments would allow people to share narrations of experiences of use, while learning itineraries would point out logical connections of various kinds among small groups of LOs, hence helping the users overcome the content fragmentation induced by the granularity of LOs. These proposals are described and exemplified by drawing from our training experience.

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