Learning objects: the sharing of teaching materials as a natural evolution of the Web

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Corrado Petrucco

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Discussion of Learning Objects (LO) and sharing of educational materials. In addition to the standards that exist today, some issues are dealt with the emergence of these new objects of learning.

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