Designing learning activities from learning objects

Learning objects have been proposed as an approach to creating and sharing learning resources. There are further advantages to be gained if the objects can be reused. This paper emphasizes the creation of learning environments from reusable learning objects. It suggests that reuse can be simplified by a learning object classification, which can be used to semantically construct learning activities. The paper suggests three major object classes for this purpose. These are environment, subject and learning method objects. The paper then describes how web-based learning spaces can be composed from these object classes. An illustration is given using teaching about technology as an example.