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Aer Lingus have decided to use Moodle for their Online Pilot Training courses.

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Strange to tell, Microsoft has been at the forefront of producing popular, immersive learning environments for over 25 years. Sadly, it looks as though their involvement in this domain is about to end.
Is this goodbye, Microsoft Flight Simulator?
Microsoft has decided to close its ACES Studio, which developed the simulator series. The ACES Studio was [...]

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Operationalizing a Shareable Content Object-based (SCO) instructional design:
Based upon the the instructional model discussed in previous posts, I recommend designing a course to the following parameters (see Figure 1):

Section: a sequence of 5±2 Lessons related by core Learning Objectives
Lesson: a sequence of 5±2 Learning Objects
(Reusable) Learning Object (LO): a learning objective [...]

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Operationalizing a Shareable Content Object-based (SCO) instructional design:
Based upon the the instructional model discussed in previous posts, I recommend designing a course to the following parameters (see Figure 1):

Section: a sequence of 5±2 Lessons related by core Learning Objectives
Lesson: a sequence of 5±2 Learning Objects
(Reusable) Learning Object (LO): a learning objective [...]

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In reaching a satisfactory definition of learning objects, a search through the literature revealed three broad characterisations:
The main idea of ‘learning objects’ is to break educational content down into small chunks that can be reused in various learning environments, in the spirit of object-oriented programming.

(Wiley 2000)
[A]ny entity, digital or non-digital, that may be [...]

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In reaching a satisfactory definition of learning objects, a search through the literature revealed three broad characterisations:
The main idea of ‘learning objects’ is to break educational content down into small chunks that can be reused in various learning environments, in the spirit of object-oriented programming.

(Wiley 2000)
[A]ny entity, digital or non-digital, that may be [...]

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