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<a href="http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/research/open_source_teaching.pdf">http://www.becta.org.uk/page_documents/
research/open_source_teaching.pdf</a></p>
Likely you will have already seen reference to this paper in today's OLDaily, but I felt it was worth reposting as it is a good paper and early on makes an important distinction that I think is too often left dormant in LOR projects and leads to no end of confusion about what people are trying to achieve. </p>
This distinction has to do with the drivers behind the use of learning objects/repositories. The paper outlines 4:</p>
- The efficiency route: the argument that learning objects and repositories enable scaleable reuse of materials and are thus a more efficient way to develop materials
- The teacher-centred route: sharing LOs will enable cross the board improvement of teaching materials
- The pupil-centred route: LOs, in that they also promote the separation of content and presentation and can be traversed to present new versions, enable accessibility and learning-style-centric versions of online materials
- The freedom argument: the LO approach allows instructors to take control of the means of production and share the intellectual product widely</p>
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Source: EdTechPost
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