Pre-Conference Workshop, Conducted by NROC
This workshop will be lead by NROC staff and expert NROC members on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 from 1:00pm - 4:40pm MST on the UVSC campus.
Tentative outline
- Finding and using LOs and courses (1:00pm - 2:00pm)
- What’s a good learning object (Showing examples of good LOs, what
- makes them good)
- What makes a good online course? (Showing examples and discussing
- what makes them good)
- How to use other people’s LOs in your courses (Different ways you can
- find and use 3rd party content)
- Developing LOs and courses (2:15pm - 3:15pm)
- Guidelines for making LOs (Describe the use guidelines and examples)
- Attaching metadata to learning objects (Describe a set of basic
- categories to use)
- Swapping LOs and courses (3:30pm - 4:30pm)
- Sharing and trading LOs (30 minutes, describing how to set up a
- method for swapping courses, describe NROC model)
- Course Swap Meet (30 minutes, networking, making connections with
- people to follow up with to share content)
Attendance is limited to 40 participants. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop for hands-on portions. A current list of registered participants is available here.