[kais]

Learning Objects are a great idea. But great ideas don’t always mean great implementations. I think that the sharable content object reference model is a perfect example of this. SCORM was developed with the idea that you can mix and match SCOs from different courses to create a new course. The only problem is that the learning object granularity required to make “mixing and matching” a viable option simply cannot be achieved by most content developers. At best you can hope to produce a course with lessons that do not flow correctly…as if most eLearning was not bad enough already. Don’t get me wrong. I am an LMS/LCMS software developer who has implemented a massive SCORM subsystem…I am talking about parsing the entire xml manifest and storing the information in about 100 different linked tables. I think that the idea behind SCORM is great…esp. the interaction tracking. But until content developers can produce seamless granular content, and content creation software can output SCORM courses that actually adhere to the specification, I don’t see the LO model of content delivery becoming a reality. Everybody wants it. Few even understand it. Maybe this discussion board can help out with that.

[kais]

Learning Objects (L.O) are the hard core of the LCMS (Learning Content Management System). In e-training L.O are considered as “digital entities designed to meet a specific learning outcome that can be reused to support learning” [i:bba0385580]Co-operative Learning Object Exchange [/i:bba0385580].
Like in traditional training, the L.O is the the context of e-training integrating content, training objectives and assessement criteria.
By the way, more the L.O is granular more the content delivered is personolised responding to the expectations and the needs of learners which suppose the complexity of this newest mode of training and the amount of investement that should be made by the the companies searching to develop such systems.

For more info. about L.O’s, take a look at this URL :

http://learnware.uwaterloo.ca/projects/CCCO/cloe_about.html

[kais]

Hi Kmiller,

I think that here we are saying the same thing but differently. In my message i just focused on the L.O that are considered as a miracle in personalizing contents, this way, learners can take courses responding to their attempts and the lack of their proficenies. HOWEVER, without Content developpers and without the support of training engineers, we can not talk about L.O Libraries and we’d better not to talk about e-training.
Basically, and as u said, u got more experience than me in implementation and i hope to learn more technically about LMS-LCMS.

Thank You KM

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