Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

Over a day long discussion at “Learning Object Interoperability Working Group Meeting”, organized by Scott Leslie, BCcampus, many challenges have been laid down on the table and many solutions were generated. One thing raised in the meeting was how we can overcome the “lack of sharing” mentality.

Over the years of instructional development practices, I realized one unique trend – the smaller the learning object is, the more willingness of sharing by the authors. Content creators are usually ok of sharing bits and pieces of their courses rather than the entire course as a whole package. This is understandable, while others collect and choose to re-use the “smaller” pieces of objects, they must put in their own intellectual procedures to re-assemble them into usable learning materials. This process is usually respected as a proper “re-publishing” process. Anyway, in simple, I believe us e-Learning developers should keep this in mind and always make sure the contents are modular and broken down to “smallest chunks” possible for the maximized re-usability.