Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

03/02/06

UBC eLearning Open House 2006

Filed under: A Good Day, Conference — timwang @ 11:17:56 pm

A wonderful event organized by e-Strategy and the Office of Learning Technology - UBC eLearning Open House 2006 was taken place yesterday at the beautiful West Atrium of the Life Sciences Centre. It is a key event for UBC colleagues to gather information about e-Learning and innovative projects and studies occurring on campus in an informal and relaxed setting. Each year UBC faculty members who are involved in nurturing and supporting learning technology demonstrate their innovative courses, applications, research, projects and tools to the UBC community.

The poster was created by two pretty ladies here at Arts ISIT: Liang and Angela. The message we are trying pass out is: no matter how limited our faculty members' resources are, we can provide them with support in delivering an interactive and exciting digital content package to their learners. On the poster, you may find learning tools we have created to be used by any educator at free of cost. You can also find works we have done with very limited resources by utilizing existing technologies such as Typo 3, Educational Games and other 3rd party software. There are also screen shots of the “Ferrari” courses we have designed in the past: English and Classic Study mixed mode courses etc.

2006 UBC eLearning Open House Poster

Click here to zoom in on the poster, created using Pachyderm Zoom Screen.


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Comments:

Comment from: Michele [Visitor] · http://www.greenpit.ch/blogwordpress/
A short comment about the following sentence:
'no matter how limited our faculty members' resources are, we can provide them with support in delivering an interactive and exciting digital content package to their learners.'
I totally agree, that it is not a matter of resources to provide students with good digital tools for learning. I do not agree with your opinion, that good digital resources are 'content packages'.
For optimal long term learning it is much more important to crate learning storyboards, where learners activity and collaboration is provided. Contend delivery is secondary.
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Comment from: timwang [Member] Email · http://blog.loaz.com/timwang
I certainly agree with you Michele that a good teacher doesn't need flashy content packages to achieve the teaching goal. However, from my daily work, I realized that many instructors have "technical difficulties" to "express" themselves in the cyber space. They have great pedagogies for their face to face teaching, but need tools to help them converting and packaging the knowledge online while they can’t really “interact with” the students. We have worked out varies of solutions to help the situation.
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