1 / 18

RLO production life-cycle: benefits & challenges

RLO production life-cycle: benefits & challenges. Dawn Leeder Director, UCeL University of Cambridge. 2 June 2005 University of Cambridge. Format for presentation. What is UCeL - Dawn Leeder background What are RLOs and how are they made - Dawn Leeder why do we need RLOs

niran
Download Presentation

RLO production life-cycle: benefits & challenges

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. RLO production life-cycle:benefits & challenges Dawn Leeder Director, UCeL University of Cambridge 2 June 2005 University of Cambridge

  2. Format for presentation What is UCeL - Dawn Leeder background What are RLOs and how are they made - Dawn Leeder why do we need RLOs what are RLOs how do we make RLOs What are GLOs - Raquel Morales why do we need GLOs what are GLOs how do we make GLOs

  3. UCeL founded in 2002 create RLOs for health professional education Focus on content creation content ‘unlocked’ developed into RLO used and evaluated Multidisciplinary, distributed medicine, nursing, midwifery, health geographically distributed Subject areas statistics, research skills epidemiology anatomy & physiology

  4. Interactivity engages… ‘browse’ ‘investigate’ ‘explore’ ‘choose’ ‘do’ ‘stop’ ‘start’ ‘watch’ ‘listen’ TEACHER-CENTRED STUDENT-CENTERED PASSIVE ACTIVE

  5. But! ‘browse’ ‘investigate’ ‘explore’ ‘choose’ ‘do’ ‘stop’ ‘start’ ‘watch’ ‘listen’ TEACHER-CENTRED STUDENT-CENTERED PASSIVE ACTIVE

  6. NIH (not invented here) • Resources are: • Small • Mix and match • Reusable Courses are: Large Fixed All or nothing SUBJECT SPECIFIC SUBJECT GENERAL COURSES RESOURCES INSTITUTION SPECIFIC INSTITUTION NEUTRAL

  7. So need to create reusable learning objects (RLOs)… ...but what are they?

  8. All learning objects are reusable… ...but some are more reusable than others..

  9. What is a RLO? media assets(aka information objects)

  10. What is a RLO? media assets(aka information objects) + activity + assessment + links based on a single learning objective

  11. Features of reusability • What features make RLOs reusable? • What are the desirable qualities of RLOs? • Discuss in pairs - 5 minutes

  12. Features of reusability • What features make RLOs reusable? • What are the desirable qualities of RLOs? • small, self-contained • generalisable across courses, institutions • engaging, interactive • platform independent, easily accessible • freely available • ‘difficult’ subject areas • made collaboratively - ownership • based on real need - inclusion/relevance

  13. 7 step production life-cycle

  14. RLO production Step 1: Content creation “unlocking content” content created by subject expert using template - RLO specification based on single learning objective contains activity and assessment peer review - quality assurance facilitated by UCeL content creation workshops hands-on, one day workshops brainstorm learning objective create content in groups discuss and evaluate digitally archive results

  15. RLO production Steps 2 & 5: peer review

  16. RLO production Steps 3 & 4: Development & testing • RLO development • content spec developed into RLO • distributed production (“post-Fordism”) • media ingredients assembled (images, audio, animations etc) • Macromedia suite - Dreamweaver, Director & Flash MX • technical check - functionality • peer review - second stage • facilitated by • UCeL residential developer training programme • intensive week-long course • ‘hot-house’ learning lab environment • get up to speed with templates, tools and software • share skills, tips and tricks • RLOs delivered to web

  17. Steps 6 & 7 Use and evaluation • 29 questions to determine • Baseline comfort with computers • use of web • Usability • navigation • control • ease of use • Look and feel • aesthetics • Content • level • appropriateness

  18. Conclusion • RLOs are powerful drivers for change • But - technology is NOT enough • Need a community of practice to ensure use, reuse and sustainability • RLOs constantly evolving, becoming fitter for purpose

More Related