In the five parts of this section, work in learning objects is examined on several levels - Standards, Pedagogy & Androgogy; Effectiveness; Policy and Digital Rights; and Learning Technologies and Tools. In some areas - Standards, for example - a tremendous amount of work has taken place that is directly related to learning objects; in others, such as Pedagogy & Androgogy, the body of knowledge that exists has only begun to be applied to learning objects.

At the beginning of each section, a working definition is provided, along with some observations on the depth of materials available on that topic that apply to learning objects. As in the previous sections, we looked for articles that seemed to focus most clearly on learning objects as opposed to the more general category of elearning. In almost every case, the articles that we chose to summarize have been referenced over and over in the literature. Also as in the previous sections, we looked for work that could apply as easily to education as it could to government or to industry.

• Standards
• Pedagodgy
• Effectiveness
• Digital Rights
• Learning Technologies and Tools