Supporting Health Occupations Understanding of Learning Disabilities
What is a RLO?
•media assets (aka information objects)
Supporting Health Occupations Understanding of Learning Disabilities
What is a RLO?
•media assets (aka information objects)
activity
+ assessment
+ links (?)
+
based on a single
learning objective or goal
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Some definitions
• Definition #1
• “Any digital resource that can be reused to facilitate
learning”
• (Wiley, 2001)
• Definition #2
• "A discrete reusable collection of content used to
present and support a single learning objective."
(Jacobsen, 2002)
• Definition #3
• ”An aggregation of digital assets that represents an
educationally meaningful stand-alone unit” (Dalziel,
2003)
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Features of reusability
• What features make RLOs reusable?
• What are the desirable qualities of RLOs?
• small, self-contained
• generalisable across courses, institutions
• engaging, interactive
• platform independent, easily accessible
• freely available
• ‘difficult’ subject areas
• made collaboratively - ownership
• based on real need - inclusion/relevance
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Consider:
• How are you going to engage the users?
• How are you going to actively involve them?
• How are you going to assess their
understanding?
• What feedback will you give them?
• Do you need to address learner preferences
(accessibility)
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Engage – use of familiar everyday
analogies
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Activities and assessments
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Animations and videos
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• Demos