Designing and Developing Digital and Blended Learning Solutions

EXERCISE 3.4

Identify a particular e-learning content that you know of and are able to access (e.g. free MOOCs). Consider whether the content reflects all nine principles. Then reflect on which of these principles you think are most important and why.

Reusability and disaggregation of learning content

Learning content can also be catalogued and stored for reuse e.g. https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm and http://www.careo.org/ in the public domain in the form of learning objects. The concept of learning objects is useful as it allows L&D practitioners to add value to any multimedia in creating a unique learning experience, but at the same it can be decoupled (e.g. the multimedia and the ‘lesson’) so that both elements can be reused ...