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

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 ins...

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Main Authors: Miroslava Raspopovic, Svetlana Cvetanovic, Aleksandar Jankulovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2016-02-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
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Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2172
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author Miroslava Raspopovic
Svetlana Cvetanovic
Aleksandar Jankulovic
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description 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.
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spelling doaj.art-9574177de7be45ce9f3cf026f2a8bb9c2022-12-21T20:40:53ZengAthabasca University PressInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning1492-38312016-02-0117110.19173/irrodl.v17i1.2172Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects CapabilitiesMiroslava Raspopovic0Svetlana Cvetanovic1Aleksandar Jankulovic2Belgrade Metropolitan UniversityBelgrade Metropolitan UniversityBelgrade Metropolitan UniversityIn 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.http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2172E-learningdistance learninglearning objects
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Svetlana Cvetanovic
Aleksandar Jankulovic
Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
E-learning
distance learning
learning objects
title Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities
title_full Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities
title_fullStr Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities
title_full_unstemmed Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities
title_short Challenges of Transitioning to e-learning System with Learning Objects Capabilities
title_sort challenges of transitioning to e learning system with learning objects capabilities
topic E-learning
distance learning
learning objects
url http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2172
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