O1.5.4

=Applications for e-learning resource allocation are analysed for reuse. =

Evidence
It is argued that a major economic and efficiency advantage of e-learning is its potential for sharing and reusing learning materials (Jochems et al., 2004; Weller, 2004; Wiley, 2000). This view has given rise to a revision of learning materials as ‘learning objects’ in a ‘learning object economy’ (Campbell, 2003).

Learning object sharing and reuse is, as Pegler (2005) discusses, a ‘hot topic’ that involves considering a wide range of conceptual approaches, including understandings of roles that learning objects may play in the future of e-learning (Bennett and McGee, 2005).