Digital Learning Objects
Enhance Student Learning
Jennifer Kosiak & Bob Hoar
www.uwlax.edu/iiurl
Institute for Innovations in Undergraduate
Research and Learning
Mission: To develop, foster and support
innovations that use digital technology to enhance
undergraduate teaching, learning and research,
and to make very simple the storage, retrieval and
sharing of digital content for teaching.
Acknowledgements
• Initial funding through UW System Office of Professional &
Instructional Development, the UW System Site on the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and an Intercampus
Communities of Practice Award.
• Institute funding provided by the Learning Technology
Development Council, Curricular Redesign funds, and UWSystem PK-16 Initiative Funding.
• Continued content development funding by UW System Office
of Academic Affairs Closing the Achievement Gap (08-09) and
Supporting the Growth Agenda (09-10) grants.
Collaborative Partners
• UW-L Educational Technologies and Center
for Advancing Teaching & Learning (CATL)
• Academic ADL Co-Lab in Madison
• UW System Math and Science Departments
• UW Milwaukee School of Continuing
Education – Center for Urban Community
Development PRAXIS Support Program
• Regional School Districts
Overview
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Defining and Creating
Sustaining
Teaching and Learning
Institutionalizing
Defining Technologies
• Podcasts = ChalkTalks
– An audio and/or visual
multimedia program.
• Learning Objects
– Self-contained “chunk”
of knowledge
Creating Podcasts
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Desktop or Tablet PC
Interactive White Board
LiveScribe Smart Pen (~$150)
IO Gear Digital Pen (~$30)
Jing (free)
– http://www.jingproject.com/
Creating Learning Object
Sustaining with Easy-to-Use Resources
• Google Docs
• IIURL Local
Content Server
• Cloud Space
(Posterous,
You Tube)
• IIURL How-To
Tutorials
Teaching and Learning Framework
LO’s are built using culturally responsive
practices focusing on the learning styles,
cultural background, and prior experiences
of students to make learning more
effective.
Inclusive Teaching Framework
Culturally responsive interventions:
1. Scaffolding
2. Logic
3. Language
A Walking Tour
A Walking Tour
• Praxis II Moodle Course
– Faculty and Pre-Service
Teachers
• Algebra and Statistics Review
– Faculty and Staff
• MathCast Project
– High School Teachers, Faculty,
Pre-Service Teachers
• Vocabulary and Language
– Faculty and Staff
The Teaching Cycle
The Learning Cycle
• Faculty-led teams of
students to help
develop content
• High School teams
creating shared
podcasts
• Over 300 under
construction
Revise
Problem
Situation
Planning &
Scripting
Collaborate
The Learning Cycle
• Collaboration with instructors
• Increase confidence as future educator.
– Determine the goal of the problem
– Identify student misconceptions
– Reflective lesson planning
Kelly
Maren
Kristin
Institutionalizing the Project
• Learning Centers
• Course Sequences
• Test Preparation
– ACT/GRE
– Early Math
Placement Tool and
Math Placement Test
– MTH 150 Credit by
Exam