What is Reusability

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A system within an instructional program where certain components of a simulation are created once and used across multiple courses. Learn more in: Integrating Simulations Across a Curriculum

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“The flexibility to incorporate instructional components in multiple applications and contexts” (ADL, 2004, p. 32). Learn more in: A Reusable Learning-Object Approach to Designing Online Courses

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When data are sufficiently documented, findable, and in a format that allows reuse in new or different contexts. Learn more in: Making Data Right: Embedding Ethics and Data Management in Data Science Instruction

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Permits learning objects to be useful for a large audience, particularly when the objects are placed in well organized, searchable databases. Learn more in: Understanding Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Learning Objects in Secondary School Classrooms

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LO ability to be successfully applied to different audiences, educational contexts or for various instructional goals, either with no or with slight modifications. Learn more in: Interoperability: Standards for Learning Objects in Science Education

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The capacity of adapting to be used in different ways. Learn more in: Valuing Learning Objects Shared in an Online Community

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Ability to use in varying learning contexts and with learners from differing backgrounds. Learn more in: A Case of Innovative and Successful Use of Digital Resources for Online Learning: Quality Evaluation Tools for Learning Objects

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Flexibility to integrate and use the resources and tools contained in different educational contexts. Learn more in: E-Learning: Psycho-Pedagogical Utility, Usability and Accessibility Criteria from a Learner Centred Perspective

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A property of learning objects, which promotes the reuse of them for other educational situations and contexts. It depends on both metadata information and instructional design. Learn more in: Quality Learning Objective in Instructional Design

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The flexibility to incorporate instructional components (e.g., an activity or a question) in multiple applications and contexts. Learn more in: Support Interoperability and Reusability of Emerging Forms of Assessment Using IMS LD and IMS QTI

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The condition for a learning object to used by any teacher in any context. Learn more in: Evaluating Large-Scale European LO Production, Distribution, and Use

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The property of a component or system to be used again and again, possibly in different scenarios. This term gained popularity with the arrival of object-oriented systems but can equally be applied to other types of software systems. Learn more in: Software Components

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Reusability refers to the degree of flexibility of a learning object or design in the following aspects: pedagogically, culturally, technically and ergonomically. It indicates how it can be adapted to fit different target audiences and learning situations. Learn more in: Principled Construction and Reuse of Learning Designs

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The condition for a learning object to be used by any teacher in any context. Learn more in: A European Evaluation of the Promises of LOs

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Reusability is essential to the notion of the learning object in that a learning object can be more effectively shared and used if it can be adapted to multiple contexts. Learn more in: A Needs Analysis Framework for the Design of Digital Repositories in Higher Education

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Reusability is the concept that describes how learning objects and learning material is reused between courses, educators, and learners. Learning objects are normally what are reused, and Learning Object Metadata is crucial in enabling reuse of learning objects. Learn more in: Educational Technology Standards in Focus

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The ability to harness an object for uses in other contexts. Learn more in: “Conceptual Reverse Engineering” of Online Learning Objects and Sequences for Practical Applications