Business as Usual or Digital Mechanisms for Change?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Naomi Alexandra Rosedale ◽  
Rebecca Ngaire Jesson ◽  
Stuart McNaughton
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Teacher Assessment ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Design For Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Assessment Of Student Learning ◽  
Digital Initiative ◽  
Digital Learning Objects

Mathematics classrooms have a long history of what has been termed ‘unidimensional' character: a proclivity for student practice routines and teachers as experts and keepers of knowledge. This study investigates affordances of student-created digital learning objects (SC-DLOs) as transformative, design-for-learning practices in the hands of students. Historical distinctions are drawn between digital learning objects (DLOs) and digital learning artefacts (DLAs) primarily for teacher assessment of student learning. SC-DLOs are conceived as students' design for learning for the peer learning community. Hence, SC-DLOs have additional and different learning potential that aligns with 21st century skill development. A corpus of mathematics SC-DLOs (n=155) were analysed from learner blogs (Year 7-8) in a 1:1 digital initiative in New Zealand. A mixed-methods approach was used to investigate features of students' multimodal design for learning. A framework of implications informs and problematises understandings of transformative digital creation by students in mathematics.

Implementation of Digital Learning Objects as Innovation in the Classroom Activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Jolita Horbacauskiene ◽  
Brigita Janiunaite
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
Digital Learning Objects

Recent and ongoing technological advancement has resulted in omnipresence of technology everywhere. More importantly, the use of technology has become characteristic of today's education. Pedagogy as it is traditionally understood is now changing more swiftly than ever before. Scholars suggest that such shift is natural and needed because Industry 4.0 requires the type of education that anticipates and meets its demands or helps to solve its challenges. Even though technology-enhanced learning (TEL) promises positive changes, the lifetime of the smaller TEL units, namely digital learning objects (DLOs), is not necessarily a long one. In scientific discourse, there is considerable criticism towards unsustainable use of technology and innovative teachers' practices. The main research question focuses on what peculiarities and, especially barriers, occur when teachers implement DLOs and what aspects should be highlighted in teacher training programs for the adaptation to be implemented successfully.

Concept Mapping to Design, Organize, and Explore Digital Learning Objects

2010 ◽  
pp. 170-184
Author(s):  
David DiBiase ◽  
Mark Gahegan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Descriptive Knowledge

This chapter investigates the problem of connecting advanced domain knowledge (from geography educators in this instance) with the strong pedagogic descriptions provided by colleagues from the University of Southampton, as described in Chapter IX, and then adding to this the learning materials that together comprise a learning object. Specifically, the chapter describes our efforts to enhance our open-source concept mapping tool (ConceptVista) with a variety of tools and methods that support the visualization, integration, packaging, and publishing of learning objects. We give examples of learning objects created from existing course materials, but enhanced with formal descriptions of both domain content and pedagogy. We then show how such descriptions can offer significant advantages in terms of making domain and pedagogic knowledge explicit, browsing such knowledge to better communicate educational aims and processes, tracking the development of ideas amongst the learning community, providing richer indices into learning material, and packaging these learning materials together with their descriptive knowledge. We explain how the resulting learning objects might be deployed within next-generation digital libraries that provide rich search languages to help educators locate useful learning objects from vast collections of learning materials.

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.

Open Social-Shared Animated GIFs for Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 194-228
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Peer Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Digital Learning Objects ◽  
Motion Images

In the open-shared teaching and learning space, the complexity of the shared learning contents vary. These range from stand-alone items and digital learning objects to full learning sequences and sets of resources. One humble object is the animated GIF, lightweight motion images used in graphical user interfaces (GUIs), expressive memes and commentary, emoticons, and other applications. Animated GIFs are fairly easy to create; they may be integrated into learning documents (handouts, slideshows, articles) and other objects, and it plays offline (and without the need for any downloadable player). This work involves an analysis of some available animated GIFs for education in social imagery collections. Based on findings, this work explores the viability of animated GIFs for various open-shared learning applications globally and some potential strategies and tactics, given real-world limits.

Being a Content Expert is Fun Again with Pachyderm

2007 ◽  
pp. 232-244
Author(s):  
Tom Hapgood
Keyword(s):  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Content Expert ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Digital Learning Objects ◽  
Organizational Procedures ◽  
And Storage

This chapter discusses the reasoning behind the lack of the expected authoring of digital learning objects. It argues that the creation and dissemination of learning objects by university faculty have not occurred as a result of technical hurdles and frightening acronyms, lack of organizational procedures, unclear legal and ownership issues, and the ineffectiveness of “selling” the idea to faculty as part of the promotion and tenure process. The technology, interfaces and storage devices have been in place for some time, waiting for the learning object authors to publish their work. The Pachyderm 2.0 software is discussed as a tool for faculty to utilize. The author hopes that discussing and enumerating the obstacles to learning object authoring and dissemination, combined with the proposal of using the Pachyderm software along with a model of working with organizational information technology (IT) staff, will assist all involved in circulating successful digital learning objects.

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