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)

based on a single learning objective or goal

+ activity+ assessment+ links (?)

Supporting Health Occupations Understanding of Learning Disabilities

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)

Supporting Health Occupations Understanding of Learning Disabilities

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

Supporting Health Occupations Understanding of Learning Disabilities

Activities and assessments

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Animations and videos

Supporting Health Occupations Understanding of Learning Disabilities

• Demos