November 17, 2003

Learning object repositories

THIS WEEK's column explores the potential of learning objects and the web repositories that help us locate them.

Anyone who has had the chance to develop a complete course material knows how difficult and time consuming the process is. We need to update the course content with new information and make sure that latest techniques/methods are adopted. Generally the instructor builds the whole course, which encompasses components such as content of the lessons, exercises, tests and the like, from scratch.