REJUVENATION OF ENGINEERING LEGACY

COMPUTER BASED LEARNING MATERIAL BY REPURPOSING

INTO LEARNING OBJECTS

JISC X4L Phase 2 Project

Background

Existing CBL resources available Many years of using these resources The content is academically sound Appearance and presentation dated Strong desire to re-engineer resources JISC X4L Phase 2 call published

The ReSET Project

The consortium of partners Aims and objectives EDEC CalGroup HELM MATTER JORUM repository

Progress to date

Evaluation of resources by FE partners Fragmentation of legacy content Creation of LOs Addition of metadata Testing of LOs in VLEs LOs uploaded to JORUM sandbox LOs downloaded and re-tested in VLEs

Demonstration of activities

Fragmentation of legacy content

Creation of LO and metadata

LO to and from the JORUM sandbox

New LO

New LO used in MOODLE

Concluding remarks

We are still at an early stage in the evolution of Learning Design and the use of Learning Objects

As the number of LOs available increases there will be more opportunity to experiment with this exciting new way of creating innovative learning environments for use by students