Learning objects update: Review and critical approach to content aggregation

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-130

  Balatsoukas, Panos ^a   Morris, Anne ^a   O'Brien, Ann ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content packages; Content structure; Granularity; Hypermedia; Learning object content models

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149101624     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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