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Using Learning Objects to Enhance Students Learning

Using Learning Objects to Enhance Students Learning. Restiani Andriati (DMP) Beth Swart (LTO, FCS Nursing). Agenda. What is a Learning Object? Where to get learning objects? How to incorporate it into a course? Examples Who can help?. Scenario.

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Using Learning Objects to Enhance Students Learning

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  1. Using Learning Objects to Enhance Students Learning Restiani Andriati (DMP) Beth Swart (LTO, FCS Nursing)

  2. Agenda • What is a Learning Object? • Where to get learning objects? • How to incorporate it into a course? • Examples • Who can help?

  3. Scenario • Instructor teaches the same material year after year • Each year, most students encounter the same difficult concepts: • Instructional bottleneck • Instruction challenge

  4. What is Learning Object? • Definition: Learning Objects are any digital entity designed to meet a specific learning outcome that can be re-used to support learning http://learnware.uwaterloo.ca/projects/CCCO/cloe_about.html • Brief description: • Computer program (web-based, CD-ROM) • Interactive

  5. Characteristics • Reusable: easily modified with different development tools • Accessible: searchable and available as needed for learners and content developers • Interoperable: capable of operating across a range of hardware, operating systems and web browsers • Durable: compatible with newer versions of system software

  6. Where to Get Learning Objects? 1. CLOE – Co-operative Learning Object Exchange http://cloe.on.ca/ MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching http://www.merlot.org/ 2. Note: Learning Objects in the L.O. repositories CLOE and MERLOT, are peer-reviewed. Develop it – with the help of the DMP Technology & Teaching Projects: http://www.ryerson.ca/dmp/instructionaltech/ atRyerson/projects.html#teachtech 3.

  7. Using Learning Objects in a Course • Optional does not work • Extra work not necessarily beneficial • Must be integral to course design • Ideally, it helps students achieve the learning outcome(s)

  8. EXAMPLE: Critical Thinking • http://www.contracosta.edu/courses/Nursing210/PharmReview/critthink_situationtom.htm

  9. Animated Example • http://www.whfreeman.com/thelifewire6e/content/ch19/ch19xe04.htm

  10. Conflict Situation • http://de.ryerson.ca/lo/nurses/animation.asp

  11. Example: Instructional • http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120067/bio01.swf::Lysosomes

  12. Drag and Drop • http://de.ryerson.ca/lo/dragndrop/

  13. Wisconsin Resource Centre • http://www.wisc-online.com/released.asp

  14. Who can Help? • Digital Media Projects Office http://www.ryerson.ca/dmp/ • Learning Technology Liaisons http://www.ryerson.ca/ltl

  15. For more information … • Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology - Special edition Fall 2002 on Learning Objects • http://www.cjlt.ca/content/vol28.3/ • Learning Objects Overview • http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/learningobjects.html • Use and Abuse of Learning Objects • http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i04/Polsani/

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