Welcome to the third week of the course.

Learning Path Week 2

Introductory Video Tutorial for Week 2

At the beginning of week 2 I am guiding you through the learning path of the second week.

Using existing Open Education Resources

Find Learning Resources

How to search efficiently on the Internet.

We expect you to be quite skilful and experienced in searching the web. You might be surprised to find out that many of us can still improve their search strategies. Have a look at the "Beginners Guide to Google Search"

Advanced Power Searching Strategies

If want to hone your searching skills to a professional level have a look at this

Examples of OER

(Open Education Resources)

If you are looking for learning content that would be helpful to your students, don't reinvent the wheel. You can find excellent learning tools on the web today. Careful selection can save you a lot of time.

If you can't find suitable OER, you can easily make your own tailor-made learning material.

Suggestion

Team up with like-minded colleagues from the same discipline and and collect helpful links.

Browse the examples of learning resourcesin in the list.
Find more useful learning resources and create your own list with with learning resources in your specific field.

Open Educational Resources.xlsx

Quality Criteria for effective Learning Resources

Today it is easy to find tons of learning materials. The challenge is much more to distinguish good from bad learning aids. Materials are selected for a reason and purpose. They are evaluated as to their aesthetic, literary, and social value; appropriateness to student age and emotional maturity; and relevance to the curriculum.

Purpose

To activate, influence motivation and arouse interest in students
To help clarify, interpret and compare important concepts, phenomena and events
To make learning more focused, effective, interesting, vivid, meaningful and imaginative
To promote better understanding and development of different skills and attitudes
To promote teacher-student and student-student communication and interaction
To encourage evoking pregained knowledge and acquiring new information
To aid in finding causes and reasons
To encourage students' personal development

Compare a poor and an effective learning resource

Study both learning aids about the same topic carefully

Learning Material Example.docx

Capture and Convert learning resources

Documents are often removed from the Internet or modified. In order to provide your students with reliable resources, you can download and adapt them. Make sure you do not infringe any copyrights.

The following tools allow you to capture your screen, part of your screen or even videos. Some tools let you add some instructional text and finally export the result in different formats. The following freeware tools are quite useful, but commercial software might offer even more features.

The best tools are the ones you are familiar with! If your computer runs on a different operating system, you will find similar tools for your computer on the internet.

Always search the internet for new tools, which might be even more powerful than the once mentioned here. But check first the following tools and look for tutorials to learn the handling.

Jing

The always-ready program that allows you to instantly capture images and videos—then share them with anyone. Jing is a great tool for adding basic visual elements to all of your online conversations.

Snipping Tool

Since Windows Vista, Microsoft has included a utility called the Snipping Tool to make capturing screen shots easier.

Wink

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

Greenshot

Greenshot is a free and open-source screen capture application for Windows users. Greenshot makes it very easy to take a screen capture and then draw and annotate upon it without having to open another application.

Freee YouTube Download

You found a thought-provoking video that illustrates a highly relevant point you want to make in your lesson. You want to select a scene and show it in class. There are many free tools to achive this task.

Audio Recording

You want to record live interviews and edit the recordings or mix them with other audio sources. Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, records etc.k.

Web-Site download

HTTrack is a free and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure.

Assignment 2.1 Using OER

1. Find a learning resource on the internet
2. evaluate the didactic value,
3. capture the learning object with an adequate tool
4. adapt it to your specification
5. Present a critical description of the whole process an post it here

Attention: Only course participants have access to the forums.

Creating your own Edcuation Resource

Presentation with Powerpoint

Creating a Presentation with Powerpoint

If you are already familiar with Powerpoint you can skip this chapter. However if you need to brush up your skills here and there, have a look at the video tutorials,

Presentations - ICT SKILLS 4 STUDENTS

How to create an presentation for effective learning

Powerpoint presentations are ideal as learning objects. Go through this presentation to learn, how to adapt them for educational purposes.

Open with Google slides!

Presentation effective learning.pptx

Structure of a Learning Object

(such as a video tutorial,a presentation, a document

Assignment: Look for Video Tutorials on the internet and check whether they have some of the elements in our checklist. Discuss the relevance of the each element of the checklist.

Recording a Video Tutorial

Installation of OBS Studio

Watch the video tutorial and learn how to download and install OBS Studio. This is a free open source video recording software. It is powerful and easy to use.

Download from https://obsproject.com/

Workshop: Recording a video from screen

You first need to familiarise with the handling of the software

Copy of Recording Video Tutorials with OBS.docx

Video Production

If you never produced a video tutoial take the time and study the Step by step tutorial how to record a video tutorial

Recording a Video the Easy Way

If you are familiar with the video communication plattform Zoom (or any othe similar tool), you are able to produce video tutorials straightforwardly. Launch a video session with or without inviting others, using application sharing as you like und record the session. The mp4-file can be edited and uploaded to YouTube.

Assignment 2.2 Creating an Education Resource

1. Choose a learning ojective that your students can achieve by studying your Education Resource
2. Create either a presentation or a video tutorial.
3. Submit your work here
4. Write a critical feedback for one or more Education Resources of fellow learners.
5. Submit in the discussion board

Attention: Only course participants have access to the forums.

Formative learning progress assessments / Surveys

Creating Quizzes with QUIZIZZ

Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages. The salient features include:

Student-paced: Questions appear on each student's screen, so they can answer questions at their own pace, and review their answers at the end.
BYOD: Can be played by students using any kind of device with a browser, including PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
Thousands of public quizzes: Amazing teachers around the world create thousands of great questions on Quizizz every day! This community effort generates great content that everyone can use.
Quiz Editor: The Quizizz editor is the most awesome quiz editor in the world! Well... we think so at least... do let us know if you don't agree :)
We take the hassle out of creating quizzes by allowing you to pluck questions from any quiz, easily add images from the internet, auto-save your progress and tons of other features. Learn more.
Reports: Our reports give you detailed class-level and student-level insights for every quiz you conduct. You can also download the reports as an Excel spreadsheet. Learn more.
Quiz Customization: Teachers have multiple options to customize their quiz session to toggle the level of competition, speed, and other factors

Write Self-grading Tests with Google Forms

Create a test with Google Forms to be integrated in your course

Copy of Create & grade quizzes with Google Forms.docx

Why using retrieval practice helpy students learn

What is test - enhanced learning?

In essence, test-enhanced learning is the idea that the process of remembering concepts or facts—retrieving them from memory—increases long-term retention of those concepts or facts. This idea, also known as the testing effect, rests on myriad studies examining the ability of various types of “tests”—prompts to promote retrieval—to promote learning when compared to studying. It is one of the most consistent findings in cognitive psychology.

What kind of tests are effective?

In some ways, the terms “test-enhanced learning” and the “testing effect” are misnomers, in that the use of the word “tests” calls up notions of high-stakes summative assessments. The “testing” that actually enhances learning is the low-stakes retrieval practice such as quizzes with multiple-choice questions and short answer questions.

Single versus multiple testing events

Longterm retention is best with multiple testing events.

How to implement test-enhanced learning in class?

Incorporating frequent quizzes into a class’s structure may promote student learning. These quizzes can consist of short-answer or multiple-choice questions, and can be administered online or face-to-face.
Providing “summary points” during a class to encourage students to recall and articulate key elements of the class by asking students to write the main points of the day’s class during the last few minutes of a class meeting
Pretesting to highlight important information and instructor expectations.
Telling students about the testing effect.

Copy of Learning be Retrieval Pracitce.docx

How to construct effective Multiple Choice Tests

Writing Good Multiple Choice Test Questions

7 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Multiple-Choice Questions

Designing Multiple-Choice Questions | Centre for Teaching Excellence

Multiple-Choice Tests: Revisiting the Pros and Cons

Effective Multiple Choice Test Taking - Quiz

Assignment: Write multiple-choice test for a topic of your BL-project. Check the items of the following evaluation rubric. Obtain a critical feedback from a fellow participant.

Evaluation rubric

- All questions are related to learning objectives and course content
- All questions present the learner with feedback that supports the correct answer
- All questions avoid complex sentences, ambiguous terms, and slang
- Avoid true-or-false questions, if possible
- Response options that do not begin with the same word (if so, this word should appear in the question)
- Consistent number of response options for all questions
- All questions have at least 3-4 response options
- All response options are realistic and plausible
- All response options follow correct sentence structure to fit with the question
- All response options are approximately the same length
- All response options are parallel in grammatical structure
- All response options contain the same amount of detail
- Response options avoid the use of negative items (“Which of these items is NOT…”)
- If response options must include negative items, negative words are all in CAPS
- All correct response options are covered in the course material
- All questions and response options avoid the use of absolute terms like “always” and “only”

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