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Merlot Journal of Online Learning and Teaching the Language of Teaching Well with Learning Objects Language in Teaching and Learning

Providing  our  students  access  to  digital  learning  objects  is  one  thing:  how  we  as educators then converse with our learners about those objects in our online courses – how we  teach  using  them  ­  is quite another. This paper discusses  the many ways  in which  instructional  conversations  about  digital  learning  objects  can  be  powerful  and powerfully different from how we have traditionally taught with analog realia (textbooks, worksheets,  overheads)  and  how  such  conversations  can  be  enriched  through awareness of digital  learning object attributes and  their potential  roles  in  instructional conversations.  A  brief  introduction  to  the  concept  of  instructional  conversations  is followed by discussion of the attributes of learning objects that can serve instructional conversations well. The anatomy of resulting instructional conversations then serves as the foundation for direct application in teaching and learning. Samples of the language that can be used when teaching in concert with learning objects are then provided and discussed.