Developing Learning Objects

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Developing Learning Objects

• Susan Eales, Electronic Services Development
  Manager, The Open University.

Digitisation Programme Meeting, 14th June 2007
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Agenda

• Background
• Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L)
• Digital Libraries in the Classroom
• Pedagogic approaches and learning outcomes
• Examples
• Getting resources used
• Working with teachers
• Standards
• Tools
• Guidelines and help
• Further information

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JISC Information Environment

• Fit to serve all kinds of digital content
• Fully supporting the submission and sharing of
  research and learning objects
• Providing a range of meaningful, rich and
  innovative methods of accessing electronic
  materials
• A collaborative landscape of online service
  providers
• working together to provide seamless access for
  usersUnderpinned by a common standards framework
  (both technical and semantic)

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Exchange for Learning (X4L) Outline

• 31 Projects
• Over 140 institutions and other bodies involved
• HE, FE, museums, public libraries, commercial
  partners
• 28 repurposing projects
• 3 tools projects
• Supporting studies
• Accessibility of learning materials
• Staff development resources website

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Subject Areas

• Health medicine
• Art, media performance
• Biology
• Catering
• Business studies
• Sociology/social studies

• English Literature
• Physics
• Engineering
• English for Speakers of Other Languages
• Leisure tourism
• Maths

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Digital Libraries in the Classroom

• Partnership with National Science Foundation
  (NSF) in the US
• 4 large projects over 5 years

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Objectives

• Bring emerging technologies and available digital
  content into core teaching and learning
• BBC audio
• Informedia, smete and tiki-wiki
• Census data

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Objectives

• 2. Develop and use innovative approaches in
  integrating technologies for the benefit of
  undergraduate teaching
• paper bike
• Mind mapping
• Whats going on?

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Objectives

• Demonstrate how the pedagogical process needs to
  be adapted or developed to support the learning
  process when using technology
• Team teaching librarian, learning technologist
• personal trainer, not lecturer
• Students have to be more active and reflective
• confidence

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Subjects

• Anthropology
• DART - Columbia University and LSE
• Design engineering
• DIDET - Universities of Stanford and Strathclyde
• Geography
• DialogPlus UCSB, Penn State, Universities of
  Southampton and Leeds
• Humanities
• The Spoken Word Michigan State and Northwestern
  Universities, Glasgow Caledonian and the BBC

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Pedagogic approaches andlearning outcomes

• Use by teacher in classroom to introduce
  topic/concept
• Use to teach underpinning knowledge/basic
  principles, eg science
• Use to replace a lesson that can be delivered
  better online
• Student interaction
• Incorporating rich media
• Use to complement face-to-face teaching, eg help
  students catch up

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Pedagogic approaches and learning outcomes

• Update/add illustration to existing materials
• Help progression between levels, eg FE and HE
• Use within VLEs
• Provide opportunity for formative and perhaps
  summative assessment
• Offer as resources for students in project work
• Develop a complete module

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Examples

• www.jorum.ac.uk/

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Incorporating your resources with others

• Resource discovery
• Takes time
• Need a plan and librarian input
• IPR 3rd party rights clearance
• Need a plan
• Need to keep records
• Need to make decisions on risks
• Supporting letter from JISC

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Getting resources used working with teachers

• eLearning development team/learning technologists
  developing materials and testing with teachers
  and students
• eLearning development team/learning technologists
  working closely with subject tutors

• 3. Senior lecturers working together and
  employing an IT person for support
• 4. Central team enlisting teachers from
  particular curriculum areas to develop materials
  once project has started
• 5. Teachers working on their own.

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Standards

• UK LOM Core
• developed for X4L projects
• SCORM
• Sequencing of learning object
• IMS Learning Design
• Describe complex activities

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Tools

• Open source content packaging tool
• RELOAD www.reload.ac.uk
• Online assessment creation tool
• TOIA www.toia.ac.uk
• Learning materials repository
• Jorum www.jorum.ac.uk

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Guidelines and help

• Jorum website
• www.jorum.ac.uk
• CETIS
• www.cetis.ac.uk
• X4L Staff Development Resources
• www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_x4l.html
• Accessibility of learning materials TechDis
• www.techdis.ac.uk
• Netskills e-learning workshops, including
  e-assessment
• www.netskills.ac.uk

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Guidelines and help

• FE Exemplars
• http//www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/fe_exemplars
• Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
  (CETL) for Reusable Learning Objects
• www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk

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Guidance and help

• SCRAN
• www.scran.ac.uk
• Becta (schools)
• http//schools.becta.org.uk/
• FERL (FE)
• http//ferl.qia.org.uk/

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Further Information

• www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_x4l.html
• www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_dlitc.html
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/programme_elearning.html