SQ5R
By Anthony Deininger
Instead of trying to memorize content, the SQ5R technique focuses on understanding concepts and new ideas.
Identifying Well Written Competencies
By Karen Barr, Beth Dailey, Barbara Buckel, Kristi Thoreson
Learners distinguish between competencies that are effective and robust, and those that are ineffective and weak. The learning object is designed for faculty who are writing or revising courses. It contains audio.
Bloom's Taxonomy For Cognitive Learning and Teaching (Screencast)
By Terri Langan
The users of this learning object read a brief introduction to the six levels of Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy and quiz themselves on a basic understanding of the levels.
The Coherence Principle
By Kris Wilson
Explore how the coherence principle uses concise narration and graphics to illustrate good eLearning.
The Contiguity Principle
Explore how aligning on-screen text and narration with graphics can help improve knowledge retention and learner engagement.
Design Principles Introduction
By Wisc-Online
Explore the history behind today's eLearning best practices in this introduction to our design principles series.
The Multimedia Principle
Explore how using words and pictures in eLearning produces better results than just using words alone.
What Is a Blog?
By Dean Lodes, Becky Kinser
This learning activity describes the definition, the uses, and the terms associated with a blog.
What Is a Wiki?
By Dean Lodes
Learners read about the strengths and weaknesses of this Web communication tool.
Blog Etiquette in the Educational System
Learners examine the do's and don'ts of blogging in a school setting. They compare the features of a student blog with those of a classroom community blog. This learning object is particularly designed for instructors.
The Signaling Principle
Multimedia Principles - Signaling. Explore how using voice and visual cues can help your learners focus, organize, and process your content.
Focused Student Evaluation Questions
The learner reads about the kinds of questions that are most effective to use on student questionnaires evaluating instruction. Generic evaluations are less helpful than evaluations focused on the specific types of instruction and learning expected in a content area. Sample questions are provided.
Bloom's Taxonomy for Affective Learning and Teaching
This lesson focuses on the affective domain, which refers to attitudes of awareness, interest, attention, concern and responsibility. Users quiz themselves on their basic understanding of the content.
Assessment: Teacher-centered or Learner-centered?
Users complete a self-inventory to determine if their approach to assessment is teacher-centered or learner-centered.
Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning: Where Do I Stand?
In this interactive object, instructors use an extensive inventory to assess their beliefs and uses of assessment. The inventory is based on the work of educators supported by the American Association of Higher Education Assessment Forum in 1996.
Bloom's Taxonomy for Psychomotor Learning and Teaching
Learners read about the six levels of the psychomotor domain taxonomy and quiz themselves on a basic understanding of the content.
My Online Experience: Case Study - Dana
Users of this learning object review a case study of an online student and her experience with her instructor. They determine the principles of good practice for teaching online.
Building Core Abilities During Student Learning Through Formative and Summative Assessment
By Alex Birkholz, Ann Jadin
This learning object gives instructors an opportunity to review the definitions of formative and summative assessment and list examples of the evaluations they use. In a drag and drop exercise, they classify a variety of assessment tools as either formative or summative.
Space Relations Assessment Examples
By Marie Hechimovich
Learners mentally manipulate two-dimensional diagrams to visualize the objects in their three-dimensional forms.
Reading Comprehension Assessment Example
Learners read a passage and answer two questions based on the information found it that passage. Immediate feedback is provided.
Mechanical Reasoning Assessment Examples
Learners solve two sample problems for a mechanical reasoning assessment.
Numerical Reasoning Assessment Examples
Learners solve two sample problems for a numerical reasoning assessment.
Technology in the ITV Classroom
Instructors who will be teaching in an Interactive Television classroom can use this activity to familiarize themselves with the various equipment options available in these rooms. A matching activity is used as a self-assessment.
Vocabulary Assessment Examples
Learners choose the meaning of a selected word in a sentence.
Abstract Reasoning Assessment Examples
Learners solve two sample problems for an abstract reasoning assessment.