INTERACTIVE LEARNING OBJECT TO ASSIST TRADITIONAL CLASSES AND GET ADVANTAGE OF COMPUTATIONAL POWER AVAILABLE IN PERSONAL COMPUTERS FOR EDUCATION

Abstract

The computational power of personal computersavailable to students now a days can be used for educationalproposes. Most digital didactical material provided byeducational institutions are passive (non interactive) such asvideos, documents, diagrams, presentation and others.Otherwise sophisticated instructional systems/platformssuch as Serious Games, Simulators and Intelligent TutoringSystems required a lot of effort and resources (financial, HRand time) to be build. But it is possible to come up withInteractive Learning Objects to assist traditional classes andprovide interactive resources to students with the technologyavailable. This paper presents some thoughts and a proposal(model) to create small interactive instructional systems,which can explore different student’s abilities/diversity, asoftware approach to provide learn-by-doing for students.Index Terms ⎯ Educational Technologies, DigitalGeneration, Learning Objects.