Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities

Miroslava Raspopovic,Aleksandar Jankulovic,Svetlana Cvetanovic

doi:10.19173/irrodl.v17i1.2172

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<p>In order for higher education institutions, which implements blended and/or online learning to remain competitive and innovative it needs to keep up with the cutting edge technological and educational advances. This task is usually very difficult, keeping in mind the budget constraints that many institutions have. This usually implies that existing open source solutions have to be used and adapted to individual needs of each institution. Keeping up with the current technological advances often brings not only financial challenges, but also transitional challenges that may put at risk learning quality and reputation of the institution, as well as performance of students. This work describes the features of the system, results and challenges of transitioning to e-learning system that displays learning materials through sequence of reusable learning objects (LOs) from the system that does not have these capabilities. The goal of such system is to increase reusability of learning content, and moreover, to increase online interactivity and communication between the instructor and students. Findings of this work reveal advantages, disadvantages and potential obstacle of implementation e-learning system with LOs and give an overview of suggestions for implementation improvements. These suggestions are given based on evaluation of implementation of new e-learning system with LOs, after the transition from the traditional e-learning system. Furthermore, based on the research of existing methodologies in the field of information systems, and the results of this research, this work proposes methodology for transferring into e-learning system with LOs. </p>

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Rapid developments of information and communication technologies (ICT) are introducing new opportunities in the development of e-learning systems
This paper proposed a hybrid transitional model for the implementation of an e-learning system that supports interactive learning through the sequencing of Los and interactive and selfassessment activities
The hybrid transitional model was based on the combination of waterfall and light agile methods

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Rapid developments of information and communication technologies (ICT) are introducing new opportunities in the development of e-learning systems. The tendency for the new systems is leaning towards the personalization and interactivity of learning materials for each student (Chun, 2004). One of the ways to achieve this is by segmenting learning materials into smaller units, with the goal of being able to assemble lessons based on the already existing materials. In the context of e-learning materials, these smaller and reusable units are referred to as learning objects (LO). LOs can be used to guide students' learning by determining the sequence of LOs for each user based on their study curriculum and prerequisite knowledge (Cvetanovic & Raspopovic, 2012). LOs represent a good candidate in online learning for enhancement of learners' effectiveness, performance and experience. Usage of LOs and their repositories are said to offer many benefits to learners (AlMegren et al, 2013)

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