The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project.
This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.
The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project.
Type of Material:
Presentation
Recommended Uses:
Students could use these materials as resources in writing, as tools to complete assignments, and to learn from the lectures. It would be useful for college educators whose students lack basic skills.
Technical Requirements:
Must be able to use Power Point on the computer.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This is a demonstration of a Workshop presented at the 2009 Merlot conference. It references a repository housing materials and students and faculty may use within their classrooms.
Target Student Population:
This is a workshop to allow teachers to converse able the students they teach who are under prepared for college work, and also to suggest strategies to help these students.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Must be able to access power point. To do this workshop the presenters must be willing to search for and share computer apps.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
This content is broad and covers a number of disciplines. This repository holds the material from entire courses that appear in the Coursera MOOC learning system. There are entire books stored in this system as well. This provides a great format for a teacher workshop.
Concerns:
Although the individual learning objects will download swiftly, if the use wants to download the entire repository it can take some time. The only other concern is that entire books are stored on this system. Although they are part of a University of Adelaide project in Australia, we am not sure that copyright infringement is not occurring.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The purpose of this material is to give students resources from a multidisciplinary perspective. The materials meet this objective very well.
Concerns:
This presentation was given in 2009, and the apps found at the workshop are now probably no longer in service, however, the format of the presentation is worth noting.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
This repository is very user-friendly. Point and click is all that is required, aside from some very basic research skills to find what you want to view.
Concerns:
Would have appreciated audio, but it could be that the reviewer's computer was blocking it.
Creative Commons:
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