May 15, 2004

Oliver Video Conference - Reusable Resources Learning Objects

PDF is online at http://elrond.scam.ecu.edu.au/oliver/2003/tastafe.pdf

Hmm  - the fun things we do on a Saturday afternoon.

K notes are also in her blog. 

The key message for me was the keeping instruction separated from information.  I can see how this could work for me.  In many ways because of time I’ve been reusing ‘learning objects’ for a while.  But I could organise is this in better ways into the future.  

Also I didn’t realise the toolbox search system has a basket feature. This will be useful into the future.  

Oliver talked also about the use of reusable learning designs. The website for this project is online at http://learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/- Information and Communication Technologies and Their Role in Flexible Learning

The generic set of fives design that project developed are

  • Explore, Describe, Apply: A problem focussed learning design
  • Observe, Represent, Refine: Developing scientifically-acceptable mental models of non-visible physical phenomena
  • Review, Access, Question, Decide, Report, Reflect: Structured problem solving
  • Review, Interpret, Construct, Justify: A situated problem focussed learning design
  • enRole, Research, React, Resolve, Reflect: Developing and using online role play learning designs

Next time I’m design a projects from my students I should make sure that refer back to this site. I can see some of the designs working well in parallel to studio based learning/teaching.

SCORM could be the solutions to my plans of custom resources for each students depending on existing knowledge and learning style. But SCORM doesn’t work with current version of WebCT we ITT uses. But there is a SCORM extension for Dreamweaver.

What I will change into the future.

  • Keep my resources and projects and sessions separate, and become more organise with how these work. 
  • Look closer at how I can could use SCORM.
Posted by robin at May 15, 2004 04:12 PM