Digital Learning Objects Enhance Student Learning

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 & Initial funding through UW System Office of Professional & Instructional Development, the UW System Site on the Instructional Development, the UW System Site on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and an 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 UW-System 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

1.Defining and Creating2.Sustaining 3.Teaching and Learning 4.Institutionalizing

Overview

Defining Technologies• Podcasts = ChalkTalks– An audio and/or visual

multimedia program.

• Learning Objects– Self-contained “chunk”

of knowledge

Creating Podcasts

• 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. Scaffolding2. Logic3. 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

Problem Situation

Planning & Scripting

CollaborateRevise

• Collaboration with instructors

• Increase confidence as future educator.– Determine the goal of the problem– Identify student misconceptions– Reflective lesson planning

Kelly Maren Kristin

The Learning Cycle

Institutionalizing the Project

• Learning Centers• Course Sequences• Test Preparation– ACT/GRE– Early Math

Placement Tool and Math Placement Test

– MTH 150 Credit by Exam