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Demystifying Re-usable Learning Objects
Debora Barnes
Beverly Leeds
Background
• E-Evolve HEFCE funded FDTL5 project on Employability
• REVOLVE JISC funded REProduce project on re-use of existing materials
• EVOLUTION JISC funded project on Open Educational Resources (Individual Strand)
OERs and RLOs
• Open Educational Resources are learning materials that are freely available for re-using, remixing and sharing – usually with a creative commons license.
• Re-usable Learning Objects are any digital resource that can be re-used to support learning
Characteristics of Re-usable Learning Objects
• Re-usable• Customisable• Applicable• Stand-alone
• Sharable• Durable• Interoperable• Accessible
E-Evolve RLOs• E-Evolve RLOs were created by
academics
• They had no specialist IT training
• Used Wimba Create and Adobe Presenter – how to edit, add a hyperlink to a Word document
• The creators were asked to keep resources and activities separate so can be customised at a later date
Materials Design
Learning Activity
IntroductionAnd Learning Outcomes
Tasks
Resource
Resource
Resource
Resource
Resource
Resource
What next?
• All of the materials were packaged
• Only for UK HE institutions
• But had the potential to be made open and separated to make open RLOs
• This is where EVOLUTION came in
EVOLUTION’s work• RLOs have been unpackaged
• They have been made available on two levels – learning activities and re-usable resources
• Re-usable materials are the raw materials eg mini lecture, worksheets
• Learning activities are lesson plans and this is where the potential for changing pedagogy comes in
Re-purposing Learning Objects
InformInform Apply Assess
InformInform
ApplyAssess
Apply
Apply
Assess
Assess
DirectiveEnquiryBased
DiagnosticExploratory
Re-useable Learning Objects
Learning Activity 1
IntroductionAnd Learning Outcomes
Tasks
Mini Lecture
Quiz
Reading
Mini-lecture
Web link
Web link
Learning Activity 2
IntroductionAnd Learning Outcomes
Tasks
Different Pedagogies or create new activities
The repository
http://www.employability.org.uk/
License • The materials are all under the Creative
commons license
Sign in page
Search
Download and meta data
What you get...
Unzipped Wimba Create file
Unzipped Raw materials
Wimba Create file
The resource
The repository
• The packaged materials are already in the repository
• Unpackaged materials and
• Raw materials will be available from here and in JORUM in April
Freely Available re-packaging software
• The raw materials can be used to make a RLO on freely available software
• So if users do not have Wimba Create/Adobe Presenter they can still download
• EVOLUTION are using the GLO 2.0 tool
Issues and Challenges
• Copyright
• IPR
• Size of raw data files means new server needed
• Downloaders using not re-purposing
• Currently doing a survey into this on what they are doing with them
Sustainability
• UCLAN is keeping the repository live for at least 2 years
• All materials are being uploaded into Jorum and will be there end of April 2010
Further Information
Email: [email protected]
Debora Barnes [email protected]
Beverly Leeds [email protected]
Materials repository– http://www.employability.org.uk
