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Visual thinking: creating effective learning objects
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Visual thinking: creating effective learning objects

Margaret Turner
Vice-Chancellor's Learning and Teaching Colloquium, 2007 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 30-May-2007)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2007
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Abstract

Specialist Studies in Education learning objects
Most online learning objects are based on a slide show and primarily offer one main path to meaning making; 'A' follows 'B' in a logically unfolding path guided by the author. The linear slide-show technique of constructing learning is inherited from the structure of the print medium. PowerPoint is one of the most popular tools for that way of constructing content so it is not surprising that it persists into the online environment. Very few if any learning objects actually utilise the fluid, multi-path and multi-voiced capacity of the Internet's networked nodal structure to provide multiple pathways, guided and unguided through the content. Even fewer use the potential of the medium to provide for a student's independent exploration of underlying concepts and connecting relationships, or extrapolation on consequences and applying learning in another field of research and reflecting the higher order learning with which Universities concern themselves. To effectively use this complexity requires something quite different to traditional writing as we know it, using a tool like 'Word'. A more appropriate approach is to use non-linear software that can map the nodes of the knowledge domain and make visible the relationships, connections and paths of meaning internal to that domain. The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to developing a visual approach to designing content for learning objects.

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