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PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS Monday, June 25, Morning, 8:30 AM – 12:00 NOON W2: Reusable Learning Objects: How to Unlock High-Quality Expert Content (bring your laptop) Dawn Leeder, University of Cambridge, UK Tom Boyle, London Metropolitan University, UK John Cook, London Metropolitan University, UK Richard Windle, University of Nottingham, UK Raquel Morales, University of Cambridge, UK Abstract This internationally acclaimed workshop introduces participants to the principles of reusability and the templates, tools and methods used by Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL), UK for RLO creation and evaluation. The workshop is a lively mix of short presentations and demos of RLOs punctuated by activities in pairs feeding back to the whole group. The central focus is the engaging “unlocking content" session that takes place in hands-on small break-out groups facilitated by roving presenters. Participants work on poster-sized blow-ups of the templates to brainstorm and create content in groups. This content is compared, discussed and evaluated by all and digitally archived to the RLO-CETL website for subsequent download. The workshop is practical, handson and practitioner-focused and requires no prerequisite knowledge or specialist equipment. It is facilitated by experts from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL), UK. Objectives This workshop will enable participants to: • Be introduced to a national community of e-learning practice supported by a leading UK Centre for Excellence • Identify the key features of RLOs • Identify the key stages of RLO development • Describe examples of RLOs from practice • Understand how RLOs are evaluated • Identify broad topics suitable for development • Have hands-on experience of tools, templates and production methods • Have hands-on experience of collaborative work in small groups to unlock content • Be able to subsequently download the workshop outputs for future use Outline Workshop’s activities • Introduction to RLO-CETL, its community of practice approach and the development methodology and evaluation frameworks • Learning Object Showcase – demonstrations of a variety of RLOs in practice • Facilitated discussion of the principles of reusability • Background to RLOs and how they are made, shared and evaluated • Identification of broad topics suitable for development • Interactive hands-on session. Collaborative work on RLO poster templates to create content in small groups facilitated by roving presenters • Presentation and discussion of group work • Outputs captured digitally to be archived Draft programme: 09.30 Tea/coffee and introductions 09.45 Outline of the day’s activities 10.00 Learning Object showcase 10:20 Introduction to RLO-CETL – how are learning objects made, shared and evaluated? 10.45 Small group brainstorming to identify topics suitable for development 11.00 Tea/coffee 11.15 Interactive hands-on session. Working collaboratively on RLO poster templates to create content in small groups facilitated by roving presenters 12.30 Presentation and discussion of group work. Results are captured digitally to be archived on the RLO-CETL website. 13.00 Close Prerequisites The workshop will be of interest to educators, developers, educational technologists, IT and support staff, instructional designers, content providers, staff developers, administrators, e-learning champions and anyone with an interest in RLOs and their effective development and deployment. No prior experience is required other than a willingness to participate in hands-on content creation activities. Beginners are welcome! Intended Experience Level Beginner Instructor Qualifications Dawn Leeder is Reward & Development Manager, RLO-CETL, Cambridge University, UK with special responsibility for staff development programmes and international dissemination. As Director of Universities' Collaboration in eLearning (UCeL), Dawn devised the innovative “unlocking content” workshop format where practitioners engage in hands-on content creation activities and these workshops have been running to international acclaim since 2002. More recently the workshop format has been adopted by RLO-CETL as a most effective method for introducing practitioners to the joys and pitfalls of reusable learning object development. As Principal Investigator of the “Sharing the LOAD project”, a part of the JISC Design for Learning Programme, Dawn has recently facilitated 4 sell-out UK workshops to capture pedagogical patterns underpinning reusable learning designs. Tutorials are indicated by a T# and have a lecture/demonstration format. Workshops are indicated by a W# and are primarily hands-on sessions. We advise early registration for all Tutorials and Workshops due to limited space available. 8
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS & WORKSHOPS Monday, June 25, Morning, 8:30 AM – 12:00 NOON T3: Designing Training Simulations to Support Participant Attitude Change: The NPD Challenge Simulation Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA Abstract Educators designing training simulations and Authentic Learning Environments want to understand how design influences pedagogical effectiveness. This workshop explores a specific simulation designed to induce attitude change. The simulation addresses issues (sometimes labeled ‘Market Orientation’) encountered by entrepreneurs and engineers involved in new product development. Attitude change data will be presented to support claims of design effectiveness. The speaker will run the simulation with participants viewing projected screen images and making decisions. Participants are placed in the role of an entrepreneur with an initial product vision. They move through customer interviews, trade shows, product feature selection, and customer segmentation, concluding with product launch. This simulation has been used in our graduate Marketing class and our undergraduate Entrepreneurship class and students enjoyed it. The role of fun as a design goal is also addressed in a discussion of design guidelines drawn from the Constructivism literature. Objectives Participants will spend about 2 hours exploring the ‘New Product Development Challenge’ simulation. It incorporates the ‘Paired-Game’ design created in previous research (Simulation Design, Role Identification, and Attitude Change in a High Technology Culture, doctoral dissertation in Systems Science PhD program, Portland State University, 1992). After experiencing this simulation, its design elements will be discussed and mapped to reviews of the Authentic Learning Environments and Constructivism literatures. Participants will be presented a view of how simulation design choices can impact pedagogical effectiveness. The special challenge of achieving attitude change – as opposed to information transfer - will be discussed. Outline • Simulation / Authentic Learning Environments design goals. • Attitude change - a special challenge in learning • Review of research on simulation & attitude change • Golas / Luca time estimates for managing multimedia projects • The Revolution Platform (subset of my presentation at Ed-Media 2005 which was well attended) • Features of The NPD Challenge Simulation (experience the simulation, discussion of features) • Linking simulation features to Constructivist & Authentic Learning Environment literatures Prerequisites This workshop requires no prerequisites. It is for those interested in developing simulations / Authentic Learning Environments and will explore the presenter’s distinctions between these. It will be useful for participants who need to evaluate the likely effectiveness of simulations (e.g., third party work). Intended Experience Level Intermediate Instructor Qualifications Dr. Schumacher built a training simulation for a high-tech company in his doctoral dissertation research. He measured significant employee attitude change following simulation use in their corporate training classes. He was employed for two years as a Research Fellow in Multimedia at the Open University Business School where he designed a simulation on innovation. His current project is a simulation for training virtual teams. He presented at Ed-Media in 2001, 2003, 2004 and E-Learn 2006. Tutorials are indicated by a T# and have a lecture/demonstration format. Workshops are indicated by a W# and are primarily hands-on sessions. We advise early registration for all Tutorials and Workshops due to limited space available. 9
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