A Practice-Oriented Review of Learning Objects

Abstract

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Open educational resources repositories literature review – Towards a comprehensive quality approaches framework

“…Expert review Policy Atkins et al, 2007;Catteau et al, 2008;Kurilovas, 2009;Sanz-Rodríquez et al, 2010;Kumar et al, 2005;Westbrook et al, 2012;Nielsen, 1994;Clements & Pawlowski, 2012; Quality benchmarking Policy Atkins et al, 2007;Balagué & Saarti, 2009;Wilson & Town, 2006; Quality guideline or criteria Policy Leacock & Nesbit, 2007;Babalhavaeji et al, 2010;Sinclair et al, 2013;Vargo et al, 2003;Defude & Farhat, 2005;Boskic, 2003;Kurilovas, 2009;Westbrook et al, 2012;Babalhavaeji et al, 2010;Dobratz et al, 2007 approaches in quality assurance are moving towards specific quality instruments rather than checking the quality of the materials against criteria by experts. However, the lack of a powerful community to back up the collaborative instruments (Zervas et al, 2014), expert review would be a vital part in assuring the quality of the resources.…”

“…Technological, Social Atenas & Havemann, 2014;Clements & Pawlowski, 2012;Downes, 2007;Richter & Ehlers, 2010;Atkins et al, 2007;Sinclair et al, 2013;Vargo et al, 2003;Defude & Farhat, 2005;Kumar et al, 2005;Alharbi et al, 2011; Recommender systems (featured resources)…”

How can directories of open access repositories improve the reuse of learning objects in building engineering?

“…We also define reusability as "the ability to use the same resource multiple times in multiple ways and in multiple contexts" (Robson, 2006). Reusability is considered by Wiley (2000) as the fundamental idea behind LOs, and although some authors do not include explicit references to reusability in their definition, it is considered an implicit requirement by many (Sinclair et al, 2013).…”

“…We believe that directories of open access repositories worldwide (DOARW) are the tools that will help find repositories that contain some LOs − henceforth referred to as LORs, despite the fact that some authors use the acronym LOR to refer to the repositories of learning objects such as MERLOT, JORUM, etc. (Sinclair et al, 2013;Clements and Pawlowski, 2012;McGreal, 2004). Once the LORs are identified, teachers can find needed LOs in the LOR.…”

“…This is important firstly because DOARW are unknown to a large part of the academic community, and secondly because LOs must be easily found through LORs to ensure high reusability (Robson, 2006;Sinclair et al, 2013;Friesen, 2001). …”