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eLearning Resources or Learning Assets

Posted by Robin Petterd on 15 December 2008

As the year starts to wrap up, I’ve been reflecting on some of the projects I’ve been working on during 2008. One small project was prototyping a different way for doing resource development for a large centralize resource development project. These are resources that are designed to be used by teachers and trainer in different contexts. The project prides itself on the quality of its learning.One of the frustrating things with the project was seeing how the “Learning Design” got in the way of reusability of the resources. One of the basic fundamentals of learning design is “focus on what the learner is doing,” not what is being communicated. At the same time, what the learners are doing needs to be relevant to the context in which they working or the context they will be working in the future. At the same time, I’ve seen people in other projects spending huge amounts of time and money taking apart these resources and customizing them to a specific context.This has led me to wonder what educators really need in terms of reusable eLearning: learning assets with great communication and information design. Then there might be suggestions about learning activities, but they are set up in a way that is really easy for the educator to customize or remove.By learning assets, I mean things like