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www.demmltd.co.uk Courselab 2.4 www.demmltd.co.uk Creating Interactive Teaching Resources A FREE Content Authoring Tool! A FREE Content Authoring Tool!

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7 minute presentation given by Danny OConnor from DEMM Ltd at Brighton TeachMeet 26th September 2013 sharing Courselab 2.4 Free Content Authoring Tool.

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Page 1: Danny OConnor - DEMM Ltd - Brighton TeachMeet Free Courselab

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Courselab 2.4

www.demmltd.co.uk

Creating Interactive Teaching Resources

A FREE Content Authoring Tool!

A FREE Content Authoring Tool!

Page 2: Danny OConnor - DEMM Ltd - Brighton TeachMeet Free Courselab

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About Me

• IT Lecturer (Merton College)• E-Learning Manager (Merton & South Thames

College)• CPD Manager East Surrey College• OLASS Project Manager Kensington & Chelsea

College• DEMM Ltd – Contracting for NIACE, SFA &

OLASS Providers (Manchester College, A4E, Milton Keynes College, Weston College)

• Danny O’Connor

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Why I am here..

• I am here to talk about a free tool that can be used to create interactive materials.

• There are lots of very good VLE’s in organisations but good content is always an issue – barriers are usually to do with..– Knowledge – what can be done– Skills – how to do it– Costs – time to do it, time to learn how to do

it, getting someone else to do it

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Last Project

• Virtual Campus in UK Prisons– Empty we needed content…

• Content Submitted by OLASS Lecturers– Static– No previous exposure to e-learning

• Little or no access• Lack of knowledge• Lack of Skills

• Content submitted by Lecturers outside of OLASS– No understanding of security issues– Virtual Campus constraints

• External Sources– Costs…

• Had to find a way of creating interactive resources ourselves

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Solution

• Rapid CAT (Content Authoring Tool)

• To be used by lecturers working within OLASS (Offender Learning and Skills Service) in UK prisons to produce materials that can be placed onto a highly secure VLE

• To be used by inmates to generate interactive materials for teaching staff

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Courselab 2.4• What is it?

– It is a rapid Content Authoring Tool that can help you turn static content into interactive content and deliver from PC, CD over the Internet from a VLE/MLE etc.

• Where can I get it?– www.courselab.com

• How easy is it to learn?– Very there is a free manual and a supportive user group– Free training videos at http://www.youtube.com/DEMMLtd

• Is it really free? – Yes the 2.4 version is freeware. There is a commercial version

with extra functionality but we didn’t need it!

Paid Version Extras…•Multiple browser capability•Importing PowerPoints•Screen Capture

•Mobile Devices (ios/Android)•More templates•More Objects

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What can it be used for?

• CourseLab's main purpose is to create interactive e-Learning content. But it's not the only one - CourseLab can be used to create a wide range of applications:– Assessments, quizzes– Employee and customer surveys– New employee orientations– Sales force trainings– Guides for policies and procedures– Products and services training courses– Certification exams– Product libraries– Interactive product demonstrations– Software simulations

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Examples of what it can do…

Asset Skills Housing – Learning module created from LMI Bitesize static learning materials converted using Courselab

International Women’s Day – Created from tutors handout submitted through SCDB process from Kensington & Chelsea College

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Examples of what it can do…

Recycling Words at work – Part of an ESF/SFA Project where lecturers from HMP Bullwood Hall wrote the materials and it was developed using Courselab.

VAK Assessment Tool – Original idea taken from the Business Balls website but re-written and turned into an interactive Visual, Audio, Kinesthetic Assessment tool by DEMM Ltd and donated to Virtual Campus

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More information

Danny O’Connor DEMM Ltd

www.demmltd.co.uk

Free Courselab Training Videos to get you startedwww.youtube.com/DEMMLtd

[email protected]