learning objects
New InfoLit YouTube Video
Posted July 27th, 2007 by suemaberryThe Teaching Learning Center at Otis College of Art and Design is experimenting with creating YouTube and iTunesU videos to help teach skills for our freshmen in particular.
Our most recent one features an art history professor discussing some of the criteria useful in determining whether the information found in periodicals is scholarly, popular, or professional. Although not really scripted, she has worked closely with me for years on teaching info lit skills to students in the first year required art history course. She spoke extemporaneously for 55 minutes and we edited it down to 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2hziLTSyU
The Teaching Learning Center has also assisted some of the Foundation Department faculty in creating learning objects.
Still Life Observational Exercise
Still Life Observational Exercise
This exercise trains students to use their powers of observation to describe specific features of a setting with increasing detail and accuracy.
The Inner Beauty of Bugs
The Inner Beauty of Bugs
The closer you get, the lovelier they are... or are they? Get up close and personal with a few surprising photographs of bugs you think you already know.
Learning Object Landscape
Posted December 1st, 2004 by NMCThis section of the NMC web site- composed of more than 50 pages of information and over a hundred links to external sites- is devoted to detailing the landscape of the world of Learning Objects. Here you will find links to a variety of resources related to theories, standards, and projects.
To access this information as a printable Adobe Acrobat document, see the Traveler's Guide to the Learning Object Landscape.
Introduction
When we began our journey into the world of learning objects, we had no idea that the landscape would prove to be so rich and detailed. Hundreds of articles on the subject have been written in just the past few years, and virtually every developed country has a list of organizations either engaged in learning object development or in the distribution of objects or information about objects. The list of important projects expands daily.
Guidelines For Authors of Learning Objects
Posted October 10th, 2004 by Rachel Smith
This monograph provides practical suggestions and tips for authors of learning objects. Included topics are learning objects, pedagogical and design considerations, standards, metadata, inter-operability, and reusability.
Download Guidelines For Authors of Learning Objects (1.6Mb, 32 pp) 
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Elusive Vision: Challenges Impeding the Learning Object Economy
Posted June 1st, 2003 by Rachel Smith
An overview of learning objects and their value introduces an analysis of the systemic challenges inhibiting the realization of a functional economy in learning objects; the essential components of such an economy are identified.
Download Elusive Vision: Challenges Impeding the Learning Object Economy (811k, 24 pp)
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A Traveler's Guide to the Learning Object Landscape
Posted April 26th, 2003 by Rachel Smith
This collection of summarized articles and annotated weblinks provides a primer on e-learning and learning objects; key organizations, large scale initiatives, and projects; and summaries of selected articles and papers.
Download A Traveler's Guide to the Learning Object Landscape (542k, 52 pp)
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