Design of E-Learning Objects for Call in Syntactics

The production of electronic course content for delivery on virtual learning environments which employ the growing number of standards and specifications in this area are intended to enable the electronic teaching material to be re-used. This is accomplished by providing clearly defined approaches to describing and organising content so that the material can be made available and discovered on a number of learning platforms. However this confuses the re-use of the object with pedagogic re-use. We look at this issue, call for a greater use of software engineering expertise and the return of control of content creation to the classroom tutor. To this end we also present Syntactics -a computer-aided language learning (CALL) system which focuses on a novel form of electronic re-use of content.