TY - GEN
T1 - ReLOAMS
T2 - 24th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education - "ICT: Providing Choices for Learners and Learning", ASCILITE 2007
AU - Theng, Yin Leng
AU - Saputra, Dian
AU - Shou-Boon, Schubert Foo
AU - Gan, Wei Boon
AU - Raghavan, Jaganathan
AU - Devi, Pattabiraman
AU - Wee, Wee Kim
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - As e-learning environments become more popular, many studies have been proposed to provide adaptive environments offering learners and educators customised courses for more effective learning and course construction. Some solutions are aimed at helping learners, while others are aimed at helping educators and course designers/developers. However, a serious lack of conceptual clarity of definitions and uses of learning objects, could have resulted in design and usability problems in current e-learning systems. This paper describes on-going work in developing ReLOAMS, a Reusable Learning Objects Authoring and Management System, prototype to address the seemingly lack of reusability of LOs in current e-learning systems. Through shared workspaces (or group workspaces) for learners who have similar learning interests to use, share and rate LOs, this paper describes the design rationale and philosophy of ReLOAMS, being implemented to promote an environment supporting community-authored and rating of learning objects. The paper then describes the systems architecture, and development of ReLOAMS concluding with recommendations and implications for the design of e-learning systems.
AB - As e-learning environments become more popular, many studies have been proposed to provide adaptive environments offering learners and educators customised courses for more effective learning and course construction. Some solutions are aimed at helping learners, while others are aimed at helping educators and course designers/developers. However, a serious lack of conceptual clarity of definitions and uses of learning objects, could have resulted in design and usability problems in current e-learning systems. This paper describes on-going work in developing ReLOAMS, a Reusable Learning Objects Authoring and Management System, prototype to address the seemingly lack of reusability of LOs in current e-learning systems. Through shared workspaces (or group workspaces) for learners who have similar learning interests to use, share and rate LOs, this paper describes the design rationale and philosophy of ReLOAMS, being implemented to promote an environment supporting community-authored and rating of learning objects. The paper then describes the systems architecture, and development of ReLOAMS concluding with recommendations and implications for the design of e-learning systems.
KW - E-learning
KW - Learning objects
KW - Reusability
KW - Usability
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84871016960
SN - 9789810595791
T3 - ASCILITE 2007 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
SP - 1009
EP - 1018
BT - Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, ASCILITE 2007
Y2 - 2 December 2007 through 5 December 2007
ER -