This thesis reports on the development of a generic online system to support learning and teaching at the University of Melbourne. New online technologies, the fostering of innovation at national and university levels and my position within a central educational unit provided the opportunity in 1996 to adapt a previous software package for online use. My observations of the problematic nature of computer-facilitated learning (CFL) production led me to take an open approach to the development, seeking both a practical product and enhanced understanding. A series of formative questions defined the scope and goals of the study, which were to: *produce a generic online learning system; *increase understanding of the workplace experience of that development; and *develop an organisational model for the further development of generic CFL systems. Given this multi-disciplinary focus, many paradigms in the literature could potentially have guided the study. A number of these aligning with the research purposes, context and constructivist philosophy of the study, were reviewed from the perspectives of learning, CFL development and the organisation.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T14:03:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vanessa Maria Mota Feitosa.pdf: 1862092 bytes, checksum: 485ab290ac9da13daf2a7db005b38dc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-13 / This work reports an investigation on how Digital Contents with video as main catalizer can be organized and used. After a characterization of a specific scenario for contents production, we present a representation based on Learning Objects, suitable to agregate different elements to the video. A derivation of Learning Object Metadata (LOM-RDC), was defined and used to develop a prototype of a wrap and rewrap Web-based tool that allowed us to verify our proposal feasibility as well as to infer ways of integration with existing virtual environments. / Esse trabalho relata uma investigação em como o Conteúdo Digital que tem o vídeo como elemento agregador, pode ser organizado e utilizado. Após a caracterização de um cenário diferenciado de produção de material, propõe-se uma representação baseada em Objetos de Aprendizagem adequada á integração de diferentes elementos ao vídeo. Uma extensão do Learning Object Metadata (LOM-RDC) foi definida e utilizada no desenvolvimento do protótipo de uma ferramenta de empacotamento e esempacotamento baseada na Web, a qual permitiu verificar a factibilidade da proposta e inferir formas de integração a ambientes virtuais já existentes.