Last year at the Learning Object Symposium at SRI, Brendan Towle pointed out that no one is ever going to assemble film objects and end up with Citizen Kane. The sum > the parts.
Stephen Downes has posted an intriguing presentation which says we’re looking at learning objects all wrong. They are multimedia fragments, not to be taken linearly. Words are the objects of which poetry is assembled but we don’t raise a fuss over the words, we laud the poet who put them together. Read Stephen’s PowerPoint. It will reshape the way you look at objects.
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