Describing Learning Objects for Situation-Oriented Knowledge Management Applications 1

From a knowledge management (KM) perspective, demand for learning is triggered directly from business processes and requires presentation of learning objects customized to the specific situation. Standardized descriptions of learning objects so far have not been designed with this aim in mind. This paper studies current meta-data specifications for learning objects with respect to their relationships to context dimensions describing situations in business processes in which employees switch to learning activities described in the concept of knowledge stance. Finally, the paper gives an outlook to an approach for on-demand course composition.