ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a project that was developed in the context of Digital School, a strategic project of the Greek Ministry of Education, and focuses on the digital materials for the teaching of English as a foreign language. First, it analyzes the notion of learning objects, as a specific type of digital materials, and its different conceptions in the field, and them moves to present some of the critique that the term has received. Next it discusses how the concerns associated with the notion of learning objects were handled by the English group that developed learning objects to be placed in Photodentro, the Greek National Learning Object Repository for primary and secondary education, in the context of the Digital School project (2011–15). Four different types of digital materials are presented and their pedagogical value is discussed, while a view of learning objects as contextualized and meaningful forms of digital materials is suggested.
