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Object lessons
Jenny Niven and Gráinne HamiltonStòr Cùram e-Learning Advisers
Workshop presentation at National eHealth education, Training and Development Conference, Stirling, 29 September 2004
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Workshop plan• Introduction to Stòr Cùram• What are learning objects?• Learning objects: process of creation• Learning objects: examples • How can learning objects support learning?• What’s a repository?• Finding learning objects in the Stòr• Discussion, comments, questions
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Why Stòr Cùram?
We wanted a Scottish identity, but not another acronym! … so:
Stòr– pronounced ‘store’ - is Gaelic for storehouse
Cùram– pronounced ‘coo-ram’ - is Gaelic for care
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Project staff
• Project Manager – Neil Ballantyne• Librarian – Sarah Currier• Learning Technologist – Ivanna Fernandez• Administrator – Romana McGlynn• Clerical Assistant – Laura Molloy• e-Learning Adviser – Jenny Niven - Robert Gordon University• e-Learning Adviser – Gráinne Hamilton - University of Edinburgh
Glasgow School of Social Work
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Specific project aims
Funded by Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education until July 2005 to:
• Develop a national ‘learning object repository’, or web-based library of learning resources.
• Populate the library with reusable learning objects from three different sources.
• Help social work educators embed these reusable learning objects in their teaching practice.
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What are learning objects?
• Re-usable, accessible and adaptable• Small chunks of learning material which can be
easily updated• Easy to blend with other resources whether
digital or traditional• Adaptable to meet demands of local curricula• Designed to be used on a range of platforms
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Examples of learning objects
• Multi-media simulations and case studies• Web pages• Quizzes• Animations• Video clips• PowerPoint presentations• Word documents with learning activities, handouts,
reading lists, etc.• Images, e.g. graphs, diagrams, photos, etc.
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Three different sources of learning objects
• Fifty new multi-media learning objects created by the project in consultation with the advisory group.
• Repurposing existing learning resources – digital and non-digital.
• Enabling learning resource exchange between social work educators – PowerPoint slides, learning activities, handouts, etc.
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Exchanging learning resources
Enableexchangeof learningresources
Centres for excellence
Socialwork
agencies
SCIE
Nine HEIs
Stòr Cùram
University ofEdinburgh
University ofDundee
OpenUniversity
Robert GordonUniversity
GlasgowCaledonianUniversity
University ofPaisley
University ofStirling
Glasgow School
of Social Work
Stòr Cùram Learning activities
PowerPoint presentations
Handouts
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Collaboration
• Greater collaboration and sharing of quality learning material through repository
• Inter-disciplinary sharing of learning resources• Access to wide range of learning resources• Shared learning, communities of practice
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e-learning for effective and ethical practice?
“The line between so called ‘classroom learning’ and ‘learning in practice’ needs to be blurred”
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How can this be achieved?
• Multi-media case studies • Video exemplars• Service users’ views• Rich media explanations of difficult ideas• Greater collaboration • Inter-disciplinary sharing
• For use in classroom, to provoke group discussion, home study, revision before/during placements.
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Multi-media case studies
• Multi-media case studies focus academic learning on real world practice
• Case based scenario introduced and then student can work through content, interactions, quizzes, assessments etc
• Rich media explanations of difficult ideas that can be reviewed, revised and applied
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Video
• Video exemplars of expert practice• View anytime, anywhere • Provoke discussion on expert practice• Students see real life application of learning• Preparation for real life placement
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Service users’ views
• Authentic accounts of service users’ views• Gain understanding of service users’ views in
context to what student is learning• Preparation for meeting service users
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Stòr Cùram: what is the “storehouse”?
• A library (or repository) of learning objects for social work education.
• Searchable by key words, educational attributes, etc.• Browse through a specially developed Stòr Cùram
subject classification or taxonomy.• Accessible by all social work educators in Scotland.• A way of enabling Scotland wide collaboration in the
creation and sharing of high quality, flexible, learning resources.