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ELI Spring Focus Session on Mobile Learning - Bryan Alexander's talk

Created by Cyprien P. Lomas (The University of Queensland) on April 20, 2006

Bryan Alexander's talk on Mobile Learning at the ELI Spring Focus session.

Learning Objects, Blogs & Wikis at the MidWest Regional Conference

Created by Cyprien P. Lomas (The University of Queensland) on May 24, 2005

I had the good luck to attend this session on Learning Objects at the Educause Mid West Regional Conference earlier this year. Jenni Mitchell, Lana Lytle and Nicholas Farha did a fantastic job of introducing an enthusiastic audience to a wide variety of technologies including learning objects, weblogs and wikis. This trio clearly had much more information than they could fit into their hour long session and supplied several references full of links! In true IT (Instructional Technologist) fashion they demonstrated their tech in real time allowing those in the audience with laptops to contribute and critique.

In their presentation, the group noted that the exercise of defining a 'learning object' was certain to end in failure. Instead, they skipped ahead to live demonstrations. Using 'found' items pulled from Merlot and other repositories, the trio tracked the evolution of learning objects. Using text based, movie and interactive learning objects, Mitchell and colleagues outlined the possibilities and charted out potential future tools. Of particular interest was a flash based tool to help faculty create learning objects.


 
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