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Generative Learning Objects (GLOs) Seminar

08 Feb 2010

On 24 February at CEEBL

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 1pm-4.30pm
CEEBL, C24 Sackville Street Building

The seminar intends to demonstrate and investigate the flexibility and pedagogical richness of GLOs and some of the ways in which they may be used within Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to support personalised learning.

Programme

  • 13.00 - Buffet lunch
  • 13.45 - Welcome & Introductions
  • 13.50 - GLOs, the Pedagogical Underpinning, Eleanor Okell (University of Leeds)
    GLOs were initially developed within disciplines which have definite answers to questions. However, Humanities questions have a wide variety of answers and students need support in both recognising this and in negotiating the range of possible answers. This does not mean that GLOs are irrelevant because engagement with these learning objectives has led to identification of a powerful pedagogical pattern for use, re-use and adaptation within a number of Humanities disciplines; this is eMI - 'engaging with multiple interpretations'.
  • 14.15 - Values and Worth GLOs – Janet Tatlock (The University of Manchester)
    Using the eMI GLO as a starting point the GLO authoring tool has been used to develop three GLOs which introduce students to some of the ways in which they will be required to contribute to scholarly debate at University. This has been partly funded by a CEEBL small project grant and has been supported by colleagues at The RLO-CETL at London Metropolitan University. Through an approach based on Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL) principles students explore the ways in which objects may be invested with value and who or what may determine value.
  • 14.40 - Using GLO in an MA Module – Kate Cooper and Jamie Wood (The University of Manchester)
    This presentation describes a project that investigated the utility of a GLO (or GLO-like) framework for an MA module at the University of Manchester. The project was funded by the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology. It aimed to develop a digital learning framework that would help students to engage with and carry out enquiry activities into the numerous papyri fragments that are preserved in the John Rylands University Library at Manchester. We will describe the project and its findings and will report on evaluations which we have carried out with students this winter.
  • 15.10 - GLOs in Combined Studies – PhD student(s) (The University of Manchester)
    Combined Studies students at Manchester select two areas of study; each area of study is based around a central discipline but students may select from a range of related disciplines. A number of PhD students have produced GLOs based on the eMI pattern which explore the differing ways in which these related disciplines may investigate an object or concept. This has been funded by the LearnHigher CETL.
  • 15.35 - Recent & Future Developments
  • 16.00 - Discussion
  • 16.30 - Close

There is no fee for this event, however places are limited. Please register online at:

We very much look forward to welcoming you to CEEBL.

  

The CEEBL Team
Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning
C24 Sackville Street Building
Manchester
M60 1QD

Tel: 0161 306 6440
Fax: 0161 306 6455
Email: ceebl@manchester.ac.uk