Preparation for Success

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• Preparation for Success
• A pre-arrival interactive learning resource

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Overview

• Our experience
• Sample items
• Pedagogic approach
• Deliverables
• Key features
• The LO Editing Tool
• Producing customised LOs

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Our experience

• Learning Object (LO) and Toolkit production
• Delivery of e-tutored online courses across
  campus and across the world
• Tool development
• CLARe an LO repository
• LO shopper, LO editing tool, LO tagging tool

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Toolkits

• EAP Toolkit
• academic study skills and language development
• for international/ non-native speaker students
• in use since 2003
• 80 hours of activity-based learning
• accessed by 1000 UoS students
• excellent feedback

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Deliverables

• A bespoke set of non-customisable generic LOs in
  study skills
• A users guide
• An optional subset of customisable
  institution-focused LOs
• A tool for easy customisation of the subset
• A tool walk-through and instructions

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Key features

• Based on a tried and tested model
• Tailored to pre-arrival needs
• Scope for institution-specific customising
• Versatile delivery
• Suitable for independent use or with a tutor/
  moderator

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A sound pedagogy

• focus on a learning point
• activity-led
• engage the student in reflection and active
  involvement
• enhanced with significant amounts of feedback
• accommodate different learning approaches
• combine multiple media
• - text, audio/ video links, web links, images

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The LO Editing Tool

• Allows easy customising of an LO subset
• Developed in-house
• An Open Source tool
• Simple for teachers to use
• With demo walk-through and instructions for use

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Producing customised LOs

• A pre-designed subset of LOs
• Pedagogically-enhanced for online learning
• Allowing addition of
• own images
• customised task feedback
• institutional web links