Abstract
Normal 0 false false false Abstract: The work reported here forms part of a UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded project (BL4ACE) ( http://bl4ace.tvu.ac.uk/ ). This project built on previous work that evaluated the effectiveness of a learning design to underpin academic competence in a Business Studies degree. A significant concern of the blended learning design was to scaffold independent learning activities by incorporating and reusing interactive Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). This paper reports on improvements in learner experience and performance following the transfer of the established Business Studies learning design across subject domains to a Science module. It reports on the enhancement of both modules by reusing and repurposing existing RLOs from other Institutions, and evaluates the experiences of both Business and Science students using the support provided through the interactive learning materials.
Highlights
This paper shows how a learning design for a Business Studies module that was enhanced by the incorporation of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) has been successfully transferred to a different subject domain
It shows how this was extended through the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded Blended Learning for Academic Competence and Critical Enquiry (BL4ACE) project, and in the process transferred to the Science module to help solve a number of emergent problems
We identified existing learning objects developed by other Institutions to reuse, building on the set of RLOs already used in the Business module
Summary
This paper shows how a learning design for a Business Studies module that was enhanced by the incorporation of Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) has been successfully transferred to a different subject domain (a Science module). The paper outlines the evolution of the learning design of the Business module to put the work into context It shows how this was extended through the JISC funded Blended Learning for Academic Competence and Critical Enquiry (BL4ACE) project, and in the process transferred to the Science module to help solve a number of emergent problems. We conclude by considering the impact that RLOs or Open Educational Resources (OERs) have had in this context, and can have in helping to improve the student learning experience and improve student success rates
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