Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education
Celebrating 25+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Celebrating 25+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Room: 8
Thu, Jun. 27 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Authors:
Bronwyn Stuckey, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Jim Hensman, Coventry University, UK
Barbara Dewey, University of Tennessee, USA
Tobias Hofmann, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Helen Brown, BECTA, UK
Sonja Cameron, University of Glasgow, UK
Abstract:
Arguably the biggest ‘buzz word’ of the current year has been ‘learning or knowledge object’. To understand the learning object and why it should be such a highly desirable commodity, we need to unpack not only this concept but more importantly revisit some contributing concepts and constructs (more buzz words) that support the building of truly pedagogically informed reusable objects (Boyle & Cook 2001). The words and relationships explored in this paper are: 1. Learning or knowledge objects - the desirable construct in today’s E-learning environment. 2. Ontologies and ways of expressing them through topic maps as they allow us to define and describe the components of an entity. 3. Metadata and XML used to create categorise, label and communicate the value of these objects. 4. Hermeneutics and phenomenology as they refer to the interpretation of experience and events and evaluation of learning events
