Friday, May 07, 2004

Finding Learning Objects I think Scott Leslie's report of his effort to find a learning resource to answer a practical, immediate question is an instructive exercise. When teaching instructors about instructional repositories I often start workshops with an exercise to "try to find an online learning tool that you might apply to one of your introductory courses." Starting with a general search engine such as Google is very different than starting with a more specialized search engine such Scirus or Scout; the difference in productive results becomes very clear to instructors. From there we can transition to considering general instructional repositories such as Merlot, CAREO, and then to discipline-specific repositories. JH _____ "Today (like many days) I was faced with a task I was not 100% sure how to do. I had a set of ratings for different evaluators, and had been told by someone who knew better than I that I should be trying to calculate their 'z-scores' in order to standardize the numbers. As I was about to enter a handy-dandy Google search, I thought - "no wait! Why don't you see if there are any 'learning objects' out there that could teach you what a Z-score is, and how to calculate it." So I set out in search of my closest learning object repository to see what I could find." [EdTechPost] 11:55:45 AM    COMMENT []