RLO101 - Introduction to Reusable Learning Objects
Oct 3 - Dec 5, 2005

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Your Organizers
This event is being organized by the leaders of the Ocotillo Learning Objects Action Group. For more information, contact co-Chairs Lisa Young (GateWay) or Donna Rebadow (Paradise Valley).

Event Location
This LearnShop takes place completely online via the District Blackboard site. Instructions for accessing the course will be sent to registered participants.

This workshop has been pre-approved for 5.00 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement. You must register to earn FPG credit.

RLO101 - Introduction to Reusable Learning Objects

The Ocotillo Learning Objects Action Group

Oct 3 - Dec 5, 2005
Completely Online

The Ocotillo RLO101 - Introduction to Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) Learnshop is open to all Maricopa faculty. This online learnshop will provide faculty with an opportunity to learn about RLOs

The Learnshop will be conducted using the Blackboard Course Management System via the Internet. Discussion boards will be hosted by the presenters as well as by guest experts via asynchronous discussion within the Blackboard environment.

Goals

The facilitators of this LearnShop plan to

Initiate district-wide discussions on what RLOs are and how they can be used in a variety of academic disciplines and incorporated in existing curriculum.
Offer the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed and used RLOs.
Offer the knowledge and experience of national experts in RLOs.
Encourage faculty from all disciplines to consider using RLOs for their instruction in a pedagogically sound manner.

Audience

The presenters will target faculty who have expressed an interest in learning about the use of RLOs for their instruction as well as faculty and administrators who want to learn more about RLOs and how they can be used to meet course competencies.

Facilitator(s)

The two Co-Chairs for the Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group will serve as the facilitation team:

Donna Rebadow, Co-Chair Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group, is a faculty member at Paradise Valley Community College, having taught in the Maricopa District for 23 years as both adjunct and residential faculty. She received her Bachelor's degree from Wayland Baptist College (Plainview, Texas) in Psychology and Physical Education and her M.S. from Canisius College in Buffalo, NY. She's been involved with the utilization of technology in education since 1982 and helped to create numerous online and hybrid courses for a variety of programs at PVCC. She has presented at institutional, local and national, and international disciplinary and interdisciplinary workshops about technology, including: "Technology for Learning: Mirage, Reality, or Magic," "What a Site: Finding, Evaluating, and Integrating Web Sites ," and "©opyright Doesn't Mean "Copy it Outright!". This is her second stint with an Ocotillo project, having served as Chair for "The Authoring Group" in 1995
Lisa C. Young, Co-Chair Ocotillo Reusable Learning Objects Action Group, is a faculty member and Program Director at GateWay Community College. She has taught classes in water resources and occupational safety and health and managed the programs for over eleven years. She was one of the first faculty members at GWCC to use online resources and online and hybrid delivery methods in her classes. She holds a M.Ed. in Learning and Instructional Technology from Arizona State University.

Lesson Objectives

Lesson 1 - RLOs and Repositories

In this Lesson, you will look at RLO definitions and their examples and then identify RLO Repositories and its value.

You will be able to give a broad definition of a Reusable Learning Object (RLO).
You will be able to define what a RLO Repository is.
You will be able to access several RLO Repositories.
You will be able to set-up a MERLOT account and a CAREO account.
You will be able to describe the differences and similarities between a Search Engine and a RLO Repository.

Lesson 2 - Searching and Evaluating

In this Lesson, you will search for relevant RLOs to your instruction.

You will be able to search RLO Repositories by using a "Keyword" search strategy.
You will be able to search RLO Repositories by using a "Directory" search strategy.
You will evaluate the RLOs that you find for general and specific relevance to your instruction.

Lesson 3 - Creating a Lesson

In this Lesson, you will create a lesson surrounding your "found" RLOs.

You will be able to understand the design principles for creating a pedagogical lesson to surround your found RLO
You will be able to create an actual lesson for your found RLO.
You will be able to describe how the students will interact with your Learning Object.

Faculty Professional Growth

This workshop has been pre-approved for 5.00 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.