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eBook details
- Title: Digital Learning Objects (Infotech)
- Author : Teacher Librarian
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 160 KB
Description
At the Online Information 2003 conference in London last December, people were talking about a wide range or topics, including search engines, knowledge management, information quality, content management systems (CMS), intranets, wireless networks (WiFi) access: information services via a mobile phone, electronic publishing, digital libraries, weblogs, "resource discovery", virtual learning environments, and "learning objects." Some or these topics, including weblogs and WiFi, have already been discussed in past InfoTech articles; learning objects will be discussed here; while others will be the focus of future articles. At the Online conference, learning objects (or, more specifically, digital learning objects) were discussed mostly in relation to universities and to continuing professional education or workplace learning, areas where funding seems to be available for development, on the basis of assumed gains or efficiencies (particularly in business). It was predicted that the "online learning market" (outside of schools) would be valued at US$11.5 billion by the end of 2003, and that this would attract major levels of investment funding. It would nevertheless pay school library professionals to monitor the emergence of learning objects, since they do have considerable applicability at the school level (even if most of the funding is going to other sectors at the moment).