Aproximación al origen de la noción de objeto de aprendizaje: revisión histórico - bibliográfica

Abstract

The aim of this article is an approach to the understanding of the concept of Learning Object (LO) from a historical perspective, in which it is clear that this notion derived from the evolution of the paradigm of object-oriented programming; thence reflect the consequences of this on the education field. The bibliographic study go to primary and secondary sources for the construction of the arguments presented. For the organization two transcendent facts were took into account: the concept of classes and subclasses and the proposed LO. The conclusions of this study shown that the idea of LO is not spontaneous, but is the result of all engineering development around the classes and subclasses concepts, which eventually became into a paradigm that fosters a favorable context from which emerges as notion. Additionally further reflection for the incorporation of this concept in the field of education is proposed.