Learning administrators, whether they're in the training department or a college of further education, stand to benefit too. For a start, it's easier to customise learning materials to particular audiences. And let's not forget learners themselves. An object-orientated approach helps them too. Most importantly, well-designed learning objects come in small chunks, designed not to overload the learner.
Learners can also benefit from increased personalisation.
Well this will often be accomplished automatically by learning management systems, based on available information about a learner's existing competencies or preferences, but the course-building process could just as easily be carried out by administrators or learners themselves. There's another benefit for learners and that's because of the changing face of workplace learning. Increasingly, individuals are not prepared to wait for the next available course to obtain the information they need, and they don't want to have to travel somewhere else to get it. They want their learning now and at a place that's convenient to them, at their desk or on their laptop. And learning objects are small enough to use here and now, to dodge the interruptions and solve the problem.