{"id":468,"date":"2004-07-14T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T03:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/14\/developing-a-university-course-for-on-line-delivery-based-on-learning-objects-from-ideals-to-compromises\/"},"modified":"2004-07-14T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T03:52:49","slug":"developing-a-university-course-for-on-line-delivery-based-on-learning-objects-from-ideals-to-compromises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/14\/developing-a-university-course-for-on-line-delivery-based-on-learning-objects-from-ideals-to-compromises\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a university course for on-line delivery based on learning objects: From ideals to compromises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.athabascau.ca\/schoolnetProject04\/documents\/LOB_Final_DraftWilhelm-Wilde3.pdf\">http:\/\/www.athabascau.ca\/schoolnetProject04\/<br \/>\ndocuments\/LOB_Final_DraftWilhelm-Wilde3.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been searching for this paper without being sure it existed &#8211; &#8220;Two course developers &#8230; investigated and described from their personal points of view the complex and immediate challenges they faced as they designed an online university course based on learning objects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat disappointingly, they ultimately &#8220;acquired a &#8216;ready-made&#8217; commercial website featuring learning objects and electronic material embedded in a comprehensive course website.&#8221; Still, this paper lays out the details of what appears to be quite a straightforward attempt to create a new online course by finding and assembling resources. The authors are clearly not evangelists for the LO approach, and make clear a number of its current shortcomings and difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>We desperately need more stories like these, as well as far more serious work on what a real &#8216;learning object design approach&#8217; to create new curriculum out of existing materials might look like (instead of more pie in the sky &#8216;automated assembly of instructional materials&#8217; scenarios, please!). One of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.athabascau.ca\/schoolnetProject04\/reports.php\">number of interesting papers from Athabasca University <\/a>that resulted from their participation in the SchoolNet Project &#8216;Learning Objects in a Box&#8217; &#8211; SWL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.athabascau.ca\/schoolnetProject04\/ documents\/LOB_Final_DraftWilhelm-Wilde3.pdf I&#8217;ve been searching for this paper without being sure it existed &#8211; &#8220;Two course developers &#8230; investigated and described from their personal points of view the complex and immediate challenges they faced as they designed an online university course based on learning objects.&#8221; Somewhat disappointingly, they ultimately &#8220;acquired a &#8216;ready-made&#8217; commercial website featuring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/14\/developing-a-university-course-for-on-line-delivery-based-on-learning-objects-from-ideals-to-compromises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Developing a university course for on-line delivery based on learning objects: From ideals to compromises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[207,355],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-objects","tag-learning-objects","tag-reusability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}