Learning Objects And Developmental Education

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Learning Objects And Developmental Education
Kevin Brosnan Harry Clarke Colleen Hurren Katie
White
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The JISC Exchange for Learning Programme

• Part of the Information Environment development
  strategy
• A seamless, integrated, electronic
  infrastructure supporting the management of
  digital learning resources
• Encourage experimentation in re-purposing
  resources
• Need to understand more about the use of digital
  content

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The JISC Exchange for Learning Programme

• Programme themes
• Create new learning materials through
  re-purposing existing content
• Demonstrate why a particular electronic
  collection is suitable for learning
• Create documentation/case studies/exemplars
• Test re-purposed resources in different
  VLEs/MLEs
• Contribute resources to a national repository

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Project Activities and Goals

• Learning to Learn, is about improving the
  retention and achievement of 2 key groups of
  non-traditional students
• Adults coming back to learning through FE
• Learners moving from FE to HE
• Learning to Learn, is also about recording
  evaluating the reuse of existing learning and
  teaching resources from elsewhere - in the form
  of Learning Objects

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The L2L Project Partners

• Clackmannan College
• Cumbernauld College
• Falkirk College
• Lauder College
• University of Stirling

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Benefits

• Benefits to Partners
• Develop in-house expertise
• Support strategic planning
• Integrate into staff development
• Creation of an Object Economy in Scottish
  Education
• Benefits to Individuals
• New skills (that are in short supply...)
• Promote critical self reflection (reflective
  practitioner)
• Build awareness of emerging e-pedagogic
  strategies

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What is a RLO?

• digital form
• aggregations of other digital resources
• structure - internationally agreed standards
• Metadata - internationally agreed standards
• object repositories and virtual learning
  environments (VLEs)

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Reuse and Learning ObjectsBasic Concepts

• The Learning Objects Spectrum

Monolithic Course Well Structured Course
Learning Objects
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Reuse and Learning ObjectsBasic Concepts

• Specifications
• IMS, AICC, ARIADNE
• Implementation
• SCORM
• Standards
• ISO
• IEEE
• CEN/ISSS
• BSI

Educational Technical Standards an Evolutionary
Process
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Reuse and Learning ObjectsBasic Concepts

• Metadata
• Data about Data
• The UK LOM
• An Application Profile of IEEE LOM
• General lifecycle meta-metadata technical
  educational rights relation annotation
  classification

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Affordances
I use it to do the finances
I use it to communicate with my team
I use it to play games
I use it to make presentations
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Cognitive Walkthrough
A method for stepping through a set of learning
resources, trying at each step to determine what
it is that we intend the learner to be doing.
Novice designers dont have a vocabulary for
describing cognitive activity but Tom Shuells
work on learning functions provides a useful
framework to support this design activity.
Peter Goodyear Effective networked learning in
higher education January 2000
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Encoding Pedagogic Intent

• A learning episode
• Learning management - preparing to learn
• Define learning expectations Motivation Prior
  knowledge activation
• Knowledge building
• Attention Encoding Hypothesis generation
  Comparison Repetition Combination/integration/sy
  nthesis
• Learning management reviewing learning
• Monitoring evaluation feedback

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Design for RLO use (Indirect Design)
space
organisation
place
community
LEARNING
activities
Peter Goodyear Effective networked learning in
higher education January 2000
tasks
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Conclusions
The problem with technology is not a
technological one!
James Cornford Centre for Urban and Regional
Development Studies (CURDS) University of
Newcastle