ascilite 2006 conference podcasts

In their paper, Ron Oliver and Mark McMahon of the School of Communications and Contemporary Arts at Edith Cowan University, presented their findings in a project on ‘The trial of learning objects: Exploring the design and delivery of VTE courses with learning objects’. There is a lot written and talked about in regard to learning objects, not the least of which is the ongoing preoccupation about defining learning objects, how big are they/should they be, and a lot of research around the design of learning objects? But what of the users, how are teachers using the objects, how are students using the objects? (Do they really care about the preoccupation of learning objects so long as they pass the subject?). Ron and Mark share a few more ideas in this podcast.

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