Digital Learning Objects

Enhance Student Learning

Jennifer Kosiak & Bob Hoar
www.uwlax.edu/iiurl

Institute for Innovations in Undergraduate

Research and Learning
Mission: To develop, foster and support
innovations that use digital technology to enhance
undergraduate teaching, learning and research,
and to make very simple the storage, retrieval and
sharing of digital content for teaching.

Acknowledgements
Initial funding through UW System Office of Professional &
Instructional Development, the UW System Site on the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and an Intercampus
Communities of Practice Award.
Institute funding provided by the Learning Technology
Development Council, Curricular Redesign funds, and UWSystem PK-16 Initiative Funding.
Continued content development funding by UW System Office
of Academic Affairs Closing the Achievement Gap (08-09) and
Supporting the Growth Agenda (09-10) grants.

Collaborative Partners
UW-L Educational Technologies and Center
for Advancing Teaching & Learning (CATL)
Academic ADL Co-Lab in Madison
UW System Math and Science Departments
UW Milwaukee School of Continuing
Education Center for Urban Community
Development PRAXIS Support Program
Regional School Districts

Overview

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4.

Defining and Creating

Sustaining
Teaching and Learning
Institutionalizing

Defining Technologies
Podcasts = ChalkTalks
An audio and/or visual
multimedia program.

Learning Objects
Self-contained chunk
of knowledge

Creating Podcasts

Desktop or Tablet PC
Interactive White Board
LiveScribe Smart Pen (~$150)
IO Gear Digital Pen (~$30)
Jing (free)
http://www.jingproject.com/

Creating Learning Object

Sustaining with Easy-to-Use Resources

Google Docs
IIURL Local
Content Server
Cloud Space
(Posterous,
You Tube)
IIURL How-To
Tutorials

Teaching and Learning Framework

LOs are built using culturally
responsive practices focusing on the
learning styles, cultural background,
and prior experiences of students to
make learning more effective.

Inclusive Teaching Framework

Culturally responsive interventions:
1. Scaffolding
2. Logic
3. Language

A Walking Tour

A Walking Tour
Praxis II Moodle Course
Faculty and Pre-Service
Teachers

Algebra and Statistics Review

Faculty and Staff

MathCast Project
High School Teachers, Faculty,
Pre-Service Teachers

Vocabulary and Language

Faculty and Staff

The Teaching Cycle

The Learning Cycle

Faculty-led teams of
students to help
develop content
High School teams
creating shared
podcasts
Over 300 under
construction
Revise

Problem
Situation

Planning &
Scripting

Collaborate

The Learning Cycle

Collaboration with instructors
Increase confidence as future educator.
Determine the goal of the problem
Identify student misconceptions
Reflective lesson planning

Kelly

Maren

Kristin

Institutionalizing the Project

Learning Centers
Course Sequences
Test Preparation
ACT/GRE
Early Math
Placement Tool and
Math Placement Test
MTH 150 Credit by
Exam