Learning Object Design

Make the most of your training investment by shaping content into small, independent learning objects that can be used for multiple purposes and that can, in many cases, be sold.

LEARNING OBJECTS

Self-contained, transportable, reusable, marketable...

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When

• Content, if packaged correctly, can be reused in a variety of learning and support interventions, across media and for different audiences.
  
  
• Content can be sold.

  What

• A learning object is a self contained, context-independent unit. Reusable and transportableit is a meaningful division of learning that can be accomplished at one sitting.
  
  
• To be effective, learning objects require instructional design skills to shape content into effective learning and support chunks or bites, and information technology architectures to define, tag, house, maintain, deploy, and display the objects in a meaningful framework, usually across an internet or intranet platform.

  Why

• Capturing knowledge, developing training, and maintaining content costs money. Corporations are looking for ways to safeguard and make multiple use of their investment as well as increase consistency and accuracy in learning.
  
  
• Reusable Learning Objects or RLOs provide:
  • Flexibility
    
    
    Material designed to be used in multiple contexts can be reused much more easily than material that has to be rewritten for each new context.
    
    
  • Ease of Updates, Searches and Content Management
    
    
    Metadata tags facilitate updates, searches, and content management by making content easy to identify and locate.
    
    
  • Customization
    
    
    You can recombine assets into any number of objects customizing them to meet specific needs.
    
    
  • Interoperability
    
    
    Organizations can set specifications regarding the design, development and presentation of objects based on organizational needs while retaining interoperability with learning systems at other organizations.
    
    
  • Competency Based Learning
    
    
    Objects can be created and combined to meet individual knowledge, skill and attitude gaps within a competency based model.
    
    
  • Increased value of Content
    
    
    The value of content increases every time it is reused. The organization is also avoiding the cost of new design and development.
    
    
• In addition, content can now, realistically, be sold.