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In a recent Green Room podcast, Dan Balzar makes a provocative statement that has inspired me to listen to it again more carefully than as music in the background. As it turns out, he says, “You can’t cobble together a bunch of little pieces, and that makes a good course” (Seven Revelations about e-Learning, The Green Room, Episode 28 [that's episode 28, regardless of the "38" in the URL], July 16, 2007)….

Now I’ve done, gone and listened again to find that Dan, talking about point number five – namely: how instructional elements can “get lost in translation” from one educational context to another, gives an example of “learning objects.” These, he concludes, “have not been as popular as we thought they’d be.”

Well, I’ve often considered the term “learning objects” an oxymoron, and never thought they’d be popular for adult learners, though perhaps they would be as work-saving devices for educators too busy to learn to craft, compose and contextualize their own educational materials. After all, what can an object learn, anyway – or, more accurately perhaps, what educational cobbling roles might fungible digital parts suit?

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