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Wednesday, September 11, 2002
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP02_Issue/article02.html Utopia2000: An Online Learning-Object Management Tool Macarena Aspillaga Introduction: Web-based Instruction (WBI) has become a widely used method of educating and training. However, the software tools used to develop it have not kept pace with changing instructional technology approaches. An Instructional Systems Design (ISD) shift to "learning objects" greatly enhances the ISD process while lowering training costs and development through reusability, adaptability and scalability, (Schatz, 2001; Wiley, 2000). "Learning objects," also known as "content objects," "instructional objects," "educational objects," "knowledge objects," and "instructional components"are the external representation of knowledge for purposes of instruction for different kinds of instructional outcomes (Gagné, 1965, 1985; Merrill, 2000). Learning objects as defined by Wiley (2000) are digital entities, which can be used, re-used or referenced and deliverable over the Internet. Consequently, many people can access and use them simultaneously. Learning objects were proposed for their productivity and standardization benefits, and as a means of making instructional design accessible to many untrained developers, (Gibbons, Nelson, & Richards, 2000)....
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