Learning Objects: Just Say No!
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Amory, A. (2005). Learning Objects: Just Say No!. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 1539-1544). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2005
Montreal, Canada
June 27, 2005
Piet Kommers & Griff Richards
AACE
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In the late 1990's Noble in a series of papers, argues that the commodification of intellectual activity into intellectual capital resulted in the commodification of learning information. The Reusable Learning Objects (RLO) model was developed from the insight that learning could be built from a number of different and discrete blocks and is built on the behaviourist or cognitive instructional paradigms. While many authors have criticized the pedagogical foundations of RLOs, this paper argues that the RLO model is a natural progression of the commodification of learning materials. Also it is argued that technology solutions based on academic freedoms, GPL and Digital Commons copyright licences, digital archiving initiates developed by the Open Access movement, and open publishing standards could offer educational developers an alternative paradigm to the one fostering rampant neo-commodification.
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