Helpful website with questions and answers on Learning Objects.
- Subject:
- Adult education
- Early childhood education
- Education
- Educational technology
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Date Added:
- 05/29/2009
Helpful website with questions and answers on Learning Objects.
Ning is a commercial Web site that offers user-generated social networks.
This collection of free, public domain clip art is an attempt at creating a central location for users to find clip art in the public domain to use in non-commercial efforts.
This course is intended to provide a foundation in the skills and knowledge you'll need to create, remix, adopt, or update open educational resources (OER). Specifically, by the end of the course you'll be able to:
Apply backward design in order to plan learning goals, assessment, and appropriate scaffolding/support,
Describe the meaning of open educational resources,
Locate open educational resources relevant to course learning outcomes,
Properly attribute works offered under a Creative Commons license,
Identify and create works that are accessible to all students,
Add a Creative Commons license to your own work and share back with your disciplinary community.
Information and video tutorials to help teachers and students take advantage of built-in features, apps and extensions on a variety of devices to support a personalized and accessible reading experience for everyone.
The Protocol for Curating Accessible OER is provides detailed yet easy to implement techniques for evaluating the accessibility of OER content in a number of formats.
Information on tools for making math notation more accesible to learners.
Resources to help educators enhance and enrich their teaching with accessible videos that include captions and/or audio description.
Provides both inspiration and guidance for those beginning work on affordable content and evidence of the growth that has occurred in this arena over the last decade.
A set of questions that can be used to evaluate the accessibility of materials considered for procurement.
Howard Rheingold's seminal work The Virtual Community addresses the implementation of electronic learning communities.
VoiceThread is a program that incorporates the best of traditional photo slideshows, PowerPoint presentations and podcasts and combines them into one powerful, digital storytelling tool. Typically, users upload photos and then groups collaborate to tell the story behind these photos.
Learners examine the do's and don'ts of blogging in a school setting. They compare the features of a student blog with those of a classroom community blog. This learning object is particularly designed for instructors.
Learners examine the benefits of using blogs in a school setting and then test their knowledge in two exercises.
The users of this learning object read a brief introduction to the six levels of Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy and quiz themselves on a basic understanding of the levels.
This lesson focuses on the affective domain, which refers to attitudes of awareness, interest, attention, concern and responsibility. Users quiz themselves on their basic understanding of the content.
Learners read about the six levels of the psychomotor domain taxonomy and quiz themselves on a basic understanding of the content.
In a drag-and-drop exercise, the learner considers various food items and determines if they improve brain functioning. This learning object is designed for instructional assistants.
Users of this learning object review a case study of an online student and her experience with her instructor. They determine the principles of good practice for teaching online.
Instructors complete a simple, informal inventory that helps them to see how they use the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education developed by Chickering and Gamson (supported by AAHE, ACE, Johnson and Lilly foundations) in 1987.