More than just a Repository: Delivering Context Rich and Value Added Information Literacy.

Mark Meng

St Johns University

Learning Objects can help students fill the knowledge gap if designed to cater for differing learning styles.

Limitations of LOs’as Mark find it.

• Objects are isolated from each other
• Overwhelming in numbers causing selection confusion
• Having no sequential organizations (this is surely a design issue)
• LOs’ depend on user ability to search and choose
• Vary significantly in size (is this an issue, surely this is dependent on the competency or curriculum)
• Descriptions are often lacking making meaningful discovery difficult (this applies to all metadata and not just the description, however, it is a general issue worthy of more consideration. and training for metadata taggers)

Design on a combination of two models; that is fixed lessons or ongoing unlimited content and lessons

Students can search this repository which I believe offers an opportunity to empower learning.