A Critique Of Stephen Downes' Article, "Learning Objects": A Middle Eastern Perspective

dc.creator	Osama Shata
dc.date	2001-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:46:14Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:46:14Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a5ba21ecf91e44838c687c93679b2c21
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23596
dc.description	The discipline of computing is definitely influencing and shaping almost every aspect of our life, including education. One decade ago, the WWW was not critical to education. However, nowadays, it has become an integral part of the learning process. A huge number of educational institutes have some form of online courses. This number is increasing tremendously. The quality of an online course depends heavily on the learning material’s content and the tools (including images, sound, video, animation) used to accompany the explanation of that learning material. Also, to cope with the rapid advances in the field, the contents of each course must be reviewed within short revision cycles. In addition, the continuous change in many disciplines has broadened the synergy and the overlapping between courses. Moreover, courses must be stored efficiently using computer software that facilitates fast retrieval of their contents. All of the above has made it necessary to seek greater efficiency via: a) approaches that hasten course design and development; b) techniques that facilitate sharability between courses; and c) tools that support reusability of course’s components and templates for publishing on the WWW.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/33/79
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2001)
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	learning objects
dc.subject	Middle East
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	A Critique Of Stephen Downes' Article, "Learning Objects": A Middle Eastern Perspective
dc.type	article