Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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Outline:
UCeL partners:
Nottingham
Manchester
UEA (Norwich)
Peninsula (Plymouth/Exeter)
Wolverhampton
Cambridge (hub)
London Metropolitan (advisory)
(e.g. Statistics
Research Methods
Anatomy & Physiology
Epidemiology
Sociology)
RLO production
Stage 1: Content creation
“unlocking content”
content created by subject experts
using template - RLO specification
based on single learning objective
contains activity and assessment
peer review - quality assurance
facilitated by
UCeL content creation workshops
hands-on, one day workshops
brainstorm learning objective
create content in groups
discuss and evaluate
digitally archive results
RLO production
Stage 2: RLO development
content spec developed into RLO
distributed production
media ingredients assembled (images, audio, animations etc)
Macromedia suite - Dreamweaver, Director & Flash MX
technical check - functionality
peer review - second stage
facilitated by
UCeL residential developer training programme
intensive week-long course
‘hot-house’ learning lab environment
get up to speed with templates, tools and software
share skills, tips and tricks
RLOs delivered to web
29 questions to determine
• Baseline
comfort with computers
use of web
• Usability
navigation
control
ease of use
• Look and feel
aesthetics
• Content
level
appropriateness
• Identify topics:
- Based on REAL educational needs
- Broadly generalisable
• RLO content creation:
- Specification
- Workshops
- Peer-review
• RLO development:
- Ingredients and templates
- Training programme
- Peer-review
• Use and evaluation
Summary
STEPS Project:
STatistical Education through Problem Solving
Specify
Evaluate the problem
results & plan
Interpret Collect
and discuss data
data
Process and
represent
data
Adapted from Prof. Neville Davis,
School of Computing and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
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Peer Tutors,
Review Subject specification students
Process customisation
People
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Libraries
Universities' Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL)
www.ucel.ac.uk
REALITY CHECK:
QUESTIONS TO YOU
-Glossary