Chunking Learning

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Chunking Learning

• The Why and How of Successful Modularization

By Laura Mandell and Britt Carr
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Online Course Modules

• Goal of putting courses wholly online
  accessibility.
• Goals of putting courses partly online
• -- addressing learners in new ways
• -- meeting students where they are
• -- teaching critical thinking skills

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World Lecture Hall (UT Austin)
http//web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT) http//ocw.mit.edu/index
.html
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Crossroads Project http//www.georgetown.edu/cros
sroads/about.html
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Engines of Inquiry

Six kinds of Learning En- hanced by
Digital Media Distributive Authentic Dialogic Co
nstructive Accountability Critical Thinking
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Voice of the Shuttle

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Voice of the Shuttle organizes Web materials by
topic Anthropology Archeology Architecture Art Ar
t History Classical Studies Cultural
Studies History Literature Media
Studies Philosophy Photography Politics Religious
Studies Science, Technology, Culture The
Technology of Writing

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Center for History and New Media at George Mason
Universityhttp//chnm.gmu.edu/index.php

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Tools include Web Scrapbook Survey
Builder Timeline Builder Poll Builder Scribe Sylla
bus Finder

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Dan Cohens Digital Humanities Bloghttp//www.da
ncohen.org

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Digital Humanitieshttp//www.muohio.edu/technolo
gyandhumanities

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• There are three sets of course modules available
  at this site
• metaphor http//www.muohio.edu/technologyandhumani
  ties/metastech.htm
• identity http//www.muohio.edu/technologyandhumani
  ties/techasid.htm
• narrative http//www.muohio.edu/technologyandhuman
  ities/narastech.htm

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Student Web Pages

• Web-Page Making Instructions
• http//www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanitie
  s/everything.htm

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Student Blogs

http//www.units.muohio.edu/englishtech/ ENGF103BS
pring2006/F103BSyllabus.htm
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Syllabi and Student Projects

• http//www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanitie
  s/eng171a.htm

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Sample Module Set

• Narrative as Technology
• http//www.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/nara
  stech.htm

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Sample Module

• Narrative as Technology, Module 3,
• The Uses of Fairy Tale
• Readings (available online)
• Film clips
• Assignments
• Digital Learning Tools
• Teaching Instructions

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Basic Module Layout

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Designing and Assessing Online Resources

• Jennifer Moon, The Module Programme Development
  Handbook (Sterling, VA Kogan Page, 2002) --
• Level Descriptors
• Learning Outcomes
• Teaching Strategy
• Assessment Methods

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What Teachers Need

• Level Descriptors
• Learning Objectives
• Discussion Possibilities
• Assessment
• Assignments
• Readings, videos, and digital tools

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Learning Narrative Structures

• Learning Narrative Structures Tool
• Teaching students to move from detail to
  abstraction
• Showing students that story structures affect
  interpretation and even perception of events
• Addressing visual Learners

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Learning Narrative Structures Tool

• Linear Storyboard
• Students assemble stories by using drag-n-drop
  elements

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Learning Narrative Structures Tool

• Customize by adding their own text (Displays
  like a subtitle)
• Saves info by using XML for faculty review

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Demo

• How this tool workshttp//www.muohio.edu/contribu
  te/160/index.html

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Your Turn

• http//www.muohio.edu/update/160elements/FullBook.
  html