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Editor’s note: The Sloan Consortium publishes the “Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks,” which has recently published a survey of what chief academic officers in U.S. higher education had to say about online learning. A free download of that report is available at this Web site: http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/index.asp
Jeremy Dunning, dean of the IU School of Continuing Studies (SCS), and Andrea McRobbie, the late director of the school’s Internet and multimedia research and development (IMRD) team, have been awarded the Sloan-C 2003 Award for Learning Effectiveness for the Teaching and Learning Oriented Network (TALON) Object System.
Dunning and McRobbie were principal developers of the TALON project, which is based upon using repurposeable learning objects linked to teaching and learning styles. Learning objects are interactive exercises that allow students to use content learned in a particular part of a technology-mediated course to demonstrate mastery, apply the knowledge to solving a problem, and use the content in a critical thinking exercise that both demonstrates mastery and allows students to place the content within the context of the larger course topic.
Dunning and McRobbie worked on the project’s development with an IMRD team from IU and representatives from Envisage Corporation and the Open University of Malaysia. They also demonstrated versions in Hong Kong and Egypt (see HP archival story, “A road show goes to Egypt:”
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/021502/text/egyptT.html
The Sloan-C awards are given by the Sloan Consortium, comprised of 462 member colleges and universities, and 106 corporations dedicated to excellence in multimedia and online learning. The organization is funded by the Alfred Sloan Foundation and the National Science Foundation, among others. McRobbie died Nov. 12, two days before the awards were given.
http://www.indiana.edu/~scstest/jd/learningobjects.html
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