Enhanced Features of SLOs: Focus on Specialization

Smart LOs being reusable items in terms of generative capabilities may also offer new opportunities to create individual and highly adaptable content for learning processes. As it was shown in the previous chapters, reusability is a central topic in LO research. However, reusability cannot be generally understood without the educational context. The main goal of reusability is to adapt the teaching content to the context of use in some learning processes. The adaptive aspects of reusability should be discussed from a wider perspective than it was done so far. We need to have a framework enabling to connect reuse issues with the educational context in order we could be able first to specialize and then having the specialized SLO to consider the adaptability problem in some well-defined manner. Therefore, the aim of this chapter is to introduce such a framework and discuss the SLO problem.

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