The Learning Objects course is justified by the growing demand for modular, reusable, and adaptive educational resources in contemporary education. Learning objects enable scalable and efficient instructional design, aligning well with trends in online learning, microlearning, and competency-based education. Recent research highlights how artificial intelligence significantly enhances their potential by enabling personalization, adaptive sequencing, and automated content creation. Generative AI tools support educators by producing lesson plans, assessments, and interactive activities, while AI-driven analytics provide real-time monitoring of learner progress. These developments make learning objects not only more efficient but also more responsive to diverse learner needs, supporting inclusivity and accessibility through multimodal formats such as text-to-speech, translation, and adaptive difficulty.
The institutional and pedagogical relevance of the course is reinforced by the need to prepare educators for innovation in teaching practices. AI literacy and the ability to design AI-enhanced learning objects are essential skills in the rapidly expanding global e-learning market. Research shows that AI-based tools can foster student engagement, inclusivity, and inquiry-based approaches while addressing ethical considerations and maintaining critical awareness. Thus, this course offers participants both theoretical grounding and practical competencies to conceptualize, design, and implement learning objects enriched with AI, meeting the educational goals of personalization, equity, and scalability.
- Docente: Manuel Bolaños González