An Instructional Design Model for e-Learning in School Education

We have created a range of tools and technologies that could assist learning. The nature of these creations in the digital age has prompted us to look at learning as ‘e-Learning’. Our encounters with digital information, processes and systems make it inevitable that our school education ought to prepare us to effectively engage in this digital era. School education is instutionalised and is characterised by a face-to-face (f2f), traditional teaching and learning in a controlled milieu. This paper suggests that a Learning Object Approach be used as the primary instructional design, for e-Learning at schools. This implies the establishment of relationships between learning object and learning to provide coherent pedagogically sound learning experiences