2nd Call for Articles: Learning Technology Newsletter - Special Issue on Learning Objects ...

2nd Call For Articles – LEARNING TECHNOLOGY NEWSLETTER (ISSN 1438-0625) publication of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT) http://www.ieeetclt.org/content/newsletter SPECIAL ISSUE ON Learning Objects and Their Supporting Technologies for Next Generation Learning Guest Editors: Dr. Vincent Tam and Dr. Edmund Lam (Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong) * Deadline for submission: September 11, 2009 Learning Technology Newsletter aims at publishing and disseminating current research about new and emerging learning technologies as well as their design, usage, application, and evaluation in different contexts of technology enhanced learning. Learning objects (LOs), as clearly defined by the IEEE 1484 standard, are potentially useful to many innovative applications for next generation learning. In many e-learning applications, LOs can be help to structure the organization of important concepts and their retrieval through indexed terms. To facilitate the explanation of difficult concepts in specific subject area(s), pictures or video files can be flexibly embedded into LOs. However, due to the high complexity of the designed structures adapted for LOs that will simply discourage their reuses, and also the huge costs involved in the re-engineering of existing e-learning platforms and their integration, the possible advantages of LOs and their supporting technologies cannot be fully unveiled in many existing e-learning platforms in the last decade so as to evolve into enabling technologies for next generation learning. Therefore, the challenging issues that need to be addressed in the applications of LOs and their s!null