Development of A Learning Content Management System Based on Interactive Learning Object Approach

Yavuz Akpınar, Hüseyin Şimşek
Boğaziçi University
Department of Computer and Instructional Technology Education
Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract:
Learning difficulties have been neglected due to over-focusing on technology and dissemination of content. Many of such endeavors targeted on delivering content packages to students and/or trainees; once the content was delivered, all responsibility of learning was loaded to the learners. The only support to them was through e-communication facilities which were also treated as a revolutionary mean to student-student and student-instructor communication. Such communication is treated as sufficient for facilitating learning. The learning content organization tools supporting certain content packaging and delivery standards were short of facilities to support activity-based learning content. This study outlines a set of guidelines to develop a learning content management system which would serve content development on line, making it a time and place independent process. The guidelines are based on more interactivity in learning objects, recording students’ reactions to learning materials, cooperation of teachers, enabling a reusable learning object to accomplish a set of instructional objectives, contextualization of content in learning object is encouraged, metadata focusing more on cognitive involvement and functionalities of the learning setting.

Paper presented at the ITHET 6th Annual International Conference, 2005 Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic