Creating objectives to enhance learning development
Collaborative learning has become a widely used pedagogical approach. It involves a joint intellectual effort on the part of students and teachers engaging in a common task in which each individual depends on and is accountable to another. Integrated managed learning environments fall under the collaborative learning umbrella. The CELEBRATE project has outlined a pedagogy for collaborative learning through the use of interoperable learning objectives (LOs) which can support e-Learning in school as well as various other sectors. The LOs were designed for dissemination through a demonstration portal in European schools participating in the pilots aimed at assisting teachers in the enhancement of LO development. Public as well as private sector partners of the project were involved in developing the LOs. A critical mass of standards was created for the LOs applicable to primary as well as secondary schools. Furthermore, 25 "authoring templates" were later developed and tested so that teachers and students may create LOs of their own thus expanding the possible resources available to schools. Resources such as images and audio files were also provided in order to assist teachers in developing their own LOs via the authoring templates. These learning assets were made available on the project's demonstration portal.
