Design Patterns for Learning Objects: the Case for Socratic Method

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Resumo: Millenniums ago, Socrates had stated the basis for today’s philosophy only by using criticism to set up concepts and rules discussing them with his disciples. This approach, named Socratic Method, has been proven to be also a teaching-learning strategy. Nowadays, even though web- based, collaborative Distance Learning systems are becoming industry standards for representation and deployment of online content for courses, some features can be extracted from Socratic Method in order to answer a recurrent questioning about how technologies could be correctly applied on supporting different pedagogical strategies in order to provide massive, high- quality distance learning content. This paper shows a collection of design patterns for developing fine granular, highly reusable learning objects to be used to build learning resources in computer-supported learning environments.