The authoring of learning content for reuse is a challenge for everyone working in the field of instructional design and technology today. In creating learning content instructional designers very often depend on the expertise of subject matter experts who, in turn, adapt their content knowledge also for other purposes such as scientific communication and technical documentation. Open XML technologies like the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) support the creation of structured, topic-based content components that can be reused for training materials as well as technical documentation. The challenge is that learning content developers need to make a conscious shift to think more in terms of self-contained topics, rather than entire chapters or books. Using experiences and contexts set in human capacity building of international development agencies, this presentation explores the interface of reusing content for training and technical communication by adopting a task-centered approach for learning design.

Se revisará el concepto de objeto de aprendizaje y cómo este concepto se está poniendo en práctica actualmente, incluyendo aspectos clave como la independencia de la narración, los metadatos, la granularidad, la descripción contextual y el diseño de actividades.