ABSTRACT

E-learning is becoming integral to on-site education in universities worldwide, and the rapid explosion of interest in the subject means that this timely, cutting edge book will be an instant and indispensable resource. Among educators, the development of reusable learning objects made accessible via the internet is ever more important to teaching and learning at university.
This book takes a studied look at the current state of online education, presenting advice on the creation, adaption and implementation of learning objects and metadata. Including articles written by some of the leading innovators in the field, this book takes the reader through:
* designing effective learning objects
* creating learning objects
* transforming existing content into resuable learning objects
* building a metadata management system
This book will be essential reference material for course developers at university, postgraduate students, teachers and learners in the field of e-learning.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

chapter |3 pages

Part I Learning Objects and Metadata

chapter I|10 pages

Learning objects

chapter 5|10 pages

Learning objects revisited

part |2 pages

Part 2 Constructing and Creating Learning Objects

chapter 7|5 pages

Learning objects

chapter 8|12 pages

Signs and objects

chapter 15|13 pages

Moving further in e-learning standardization

chapter 16|15 pages

Reusable learning objects

part |2 pages

Part 4 Learning Object Profiles, Applications and Models

chapter 17|10 pages

CanCore

chapter 18|7 pages

POOL, POND and SPLASH

chapter 19|9 pages

The Edutella P2P network

chapter 20|16 pages

The Explor@2 Learning Object Manager

part |2 pages

Part 5 From the Semantic Web to EML and Instructional Engineering