scholarly journals Supporting Healthcare Integration of Refugees Exploiting Reusable Learning Objects: The ASPIRE Framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioanna Dratsiou ◽  
Annita Varella ◽  
Natalia Stathakarou ◽  
Stathis Konstantinidis ◽  
Panagiotis Bamidis
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Reusable Learning Objects ◽  
E Learning

The significant increase of refugees’ migration has demonstrated an overwhelming need for their access and integration to healthcare systems. E-learning, especially in the form of experiential digital learning, has been highlighted as an important ally in supporting refugees’ health needs. This paper aims to discuss the design and development process of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) to enhance digital health applications for refugees and integrate them to healthcare systems. The participatory approach based on the “ASPIRE” framework was followed. Using the “ASPIRE” process, 9 stakeholders were involved in the first phase of the development process, where a co-creation storyboarding workshop was held in Greece by the Medical Physics Laboratory of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Essential qualitative and quantitative feedback was collected from stakeholders through an online questionnaire administered in Google Forms. Overall, enlightening ideas were expressed and all stakeholders commented positively on the value and efficacy of the workshop.

Participatory Approach in Reusable Learning Object (RLO) Development Using ASPIRE Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Nurhanim Hassan ◽  
Renukha Sellappans ◽  
Phelim Yong Voon Chen ◽  
Wei Hsum Yap ◽  
Enna Ayub ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Erasmus Programme

A reusable learning object (RLO) is a type of e-learning resource developed that can be reused again in a variety of different e-learning activities, modules, and courses. Each has its own learning objective, but they can still be combined to form a comprehensive e-learning experience. This chapter investigates the design and development process of developing reusable learning objects (RLO) to digitize healthcare curricular in Malaysia, a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union with partner universities from UK, Europe, and Malaysia. This participatory approach is based on the ASPIRE framework developed by one of the project partners (University of Nottingham). Using the ASPIRE process, stakeholders such as the subject matter experts (SME) and students are involved at the onset of the development process: storyboarding workshop and specification ideation. The completed RLOs are used in the module as part of the student's learning delivery.

Augmented Reality in Online Teacher Traning for Digital Competence

2021 ◽  
Vol LXIV (5) ◽  
pp. 503-519
Author(s):  
Evgenia Goranova ◽  
◽  
Valentina Voinohovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Variable Component ◽  
Qr Code ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Video Information ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Teacher Traning

The article presents an approach applied in the online training of pre-service teachers to acquire digital competence. The content of the concept of ‘digital competence’ in its sustainable and variable component is clarified. The understanding of ‘augmented reality’ to e-learning objects is presented. Two forms of ‘augmented reality’ have been proposed to visualize video information to a clarified concept. The first one is presented via a QR code for quick access and applicable for mobile learning. The other is provided by icons and is applicable to e-learning with a computer. It is believed that ‘augmented reality’ can differentiate students’ online learning according to the field-dependent and field-independent cognitive style and their preferences on the use of different digital learning devices.

A European Evaluation of the Promises of LOs

2011 ◽  
pp. 515-531
Author(s):  
Robert McCormick ◽  
Tomi Jaakkola ◽  
Sami Nurmi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Impact

Most studies on reusable digital learning materials, Learning Objects (LOs), relate to their use in universities. Few empirical studies exist to explore the impact of LOs on pedagogy, especially in schools. This chapter provides evidence from an evaluation of the use of LOs in schools. The evidence is from an EU-funded project Context E-Learning with Broadband Technologies, involving 500 schools in six countries across Europe, to examine the impact of LOs on pedagogy. It brought together producers and users to try out technically and pedagogically sound ways of producing, making available through a portal, and using LOs. This chapter reports data from both quantitative and qualitative studies conducted during 2004, including: online surveys (of all the teachers involved), routine data from the portal, semistructured interviews in 40 schools in all six countries, experimental studies in one of these countries, and 13 classroom case studies in four of the countries.

Building Interactive and Immersive Imagery

2010 ◽  
pp. 169-200
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objects ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Digital Learning Objects

The influence of immersive gaming and simulations on e-learning cannot be understated. While there has been some successful harnessing of interactivity and immersive spaces for e-learning, more awareness of related fundamentals may enhance e-learning. This chapter discusses the role of graphics in interactivity (live and automated) and immersion and strategies for creating effective interfaces, virtual spaces, contexts, agents, and 3D digital learning objects.

scholarly journals Designing and integrating reusable learning objects for meaningful learning: Cases from a graduate programme

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Hwee Ling Koh
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Reusable Learning Objects ◽  
Programme Design ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning With Technology

E-learning quality depends on sound pedagogical integration between the content resources and lesson activities within an e-learning system. This study proposes that a meaningful learning with technology framework can be used to guide the design and integration of content resources with e-learning activities in ways that promote learning experiences, characterised by five dimensions: active, constructive, intentional, authentic, and collaborative. The pedagogical uses of these meaningful learning dimensions to support the design and integration of reusable learning objects as content resources will be explicated and exemplified through three cases related to the instruction of theories, principles, and professional skills respectively in a graduate programme. Design notes and surveys of students’ perception of learning experiences are used as data sources to understand how the five meaningful learning dimensions are being implemented by instructors and perceived by students. The strategies for supporting meaningful learning with reusable learning objects in higher education contexts are discussed.

Building Interactive and Immersive Imagery

2011 ◽  
pp. 1682-1711
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objects ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Digital Learning Objects

The influence of immersive gaming and simulations on e-learning cannot be understated. While there has been some successful harnessing of interactivity and immersive spaces for e-learning, more awareness of related fundamentals may enhance e-learning. This chapter discusses the role of graphics in interactivity (live and automated) and immersion and strategies for creating effective interfaces, virtual spaces, contexts, agents, and 3D digital learning objects.

Structuring a Local Virtual Work Ecology for a Collaborative, Multi-Institutional Higher Educational Project

2010 ◽  
pp. 264-292
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community College ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Kansas State University ◽  
Digital Learning Objects

This chapter focuses on a multi-institutional shared curricular-build project (2009) out of Kansas State University, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City Kansas Community College, and Dodge City Community College. This project involved the building of a range of digital learning objects for modules for an online course that will be taught at the various institutions in both online and hybrid formats. This collaboration is unique in that it brought together experts from cross-functional domains (from both the empirical sciences and the humanities) for an interdisciplinary freshman level course. The team collaborated virtually through computer mediated communications and built e-learning based on instructional design precepts. The curriculum was built to the standards of the public health domain field, the Quality Matters™ rubric (for e-learning standards), federal accessibility guidelines, intellectual property laws, and technological interoperability standards (with the curriculum to be delivered through four disparate learning / course management systems). This chapter focuses on the socio-technical structuring of a local virtual work ecology to support this “Pathways to Public Health” project.

scholarly journals Generation of reusable learning objects from digital medical collections: An analysis based on the MASMDOA framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 146045822097758
Author(s):  
Félix Buendía ◽  
Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada ◽  
José-Luis Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Reusable Learning Objects ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Platforms

Learning Objects represent a widespread approach to structuring instructional materials in a large variety of educational contexts. The main aim of this work consists of analyzing the process of generating reusable learning objects followed by Clavy, a tool that can be used to retrieve data from multiple medical knowledge sources and reconfigure such sources in diverse multimedia-based structures and organizations. From these organizations, Clavy is able to generate learning objects that can be adapted to various instructional healthcare scenarios with several types of user profiles and distinct learning requirements. Moreover, Clavy provides the capability of exporting these learning objects through standard educational specifications, which improves their reusability features. The analysis proposed is conducted following criteria defined by the MASMDOA framework for comparing and selecting learning object generation methodologies. The analysis insights highlight the importance of having a tool to transfer knowledge from the available digital medical collections to learning objects that can be easily accessed by medical students and healthcare practitioners through the most popular e-learning platforms.

Structuring a Local Virtual Work Ecology for a Collaborative, Multi-Institutional Higher Educational Project

2011 ◽  
pp. 1364-1392
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community College ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Kansas State University ◽  
Digital Learning Objects

This chapter focuses on a multi-institutional shared curricular-build project (2009) out of Kansas State University, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City Kansas Community College, and Dodge City Community College. This project involved the building of a range of digital learning objects for modules for an online course that will be taught at the various institutions in both online and hybrid formats. This collaboration is unique in that it brought together experts from cross-functional domains (from both the empirical sciences and the humanities) for an interdisciplinary freshman level course. The team collaborated virtually through computer mediated communications and built e-learning based on instructional design precepts. The curriculum was built to the standards of the public health domain field, the Quality Matters™ rubric (for e-learning standards), federal accessibility guidelines, intellectual property laws, and technological interoperability standards (with the curriculum to be delivered through four disparate learning / course management systems). This chapter focuses on the socio-technical structuring of a local virtual work ecology to support this “Pathways to Public Health” project.

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