I've argued in several presentations that the use of learning objects in particular and online educational resources in general will not greatly expand in higher education until two trends fully develop: first, campus-based centers (such as learning/study centers, writing centers, math centers, and teaching centers) must facilitate and promote the use of online educational materials by instructors and students, and second, software packages to enable the easy creation and sharing of online materials must become more generally available to the faculty rather than just staying in the hands of instructional designers and early adopters among the teaching body. I'm pleased to see some growth in the first trend. The Birkbeck University Library project reported in the previous post is one example. The Introduction to Learning Object Repositories at George Mason University's Instructional Resource Center and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's Learning Objects: Collections guide are other good examples of the first trend. [For more examples see the Guideline Referatory Sites for HE Faculty section in my EduResources Portal.]
Here's another, this one from the Houston Community College Center, Southeast. Although the project is still under construction, the Tutoring Modules and Annotated Links are certainly worth examining; it will also be interesting to bookmark the site and revisit as it continues to add resources. (Thanks to Dr. Robert Lunday for bringing the Houston CC resource to my attention.) ______JH
Hello,
Having looked at the Birkbeck presentation, I thought I would forward you the link to a resource I am creating as part of a Writing Center web page. The page itself is a few weeks old, and is far from complete; the link I want to draw to your attention is the "Modules" page. I have used Macromedia Captivate to create Flash-based screen-capture movies -- two done so far, but I hope (with faculty help, after I train them!) in making many more, essentially to "film" a virtual handbook for writing issues. Criticism is welcome... and use of the resources is, too, if they are helpful (spare though the resource is thus far). R. Lunday, Ph.D.
http://learning.sec.hccs.edu/courses/tutoringcenters/writingcenter
10:34:19 AM 
|
