Reusing Online Resources
Author: Allison Littlejohn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1135724520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique book outlines approaches to sharing and reusing resources for sustainable e-learning.
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Reusing Online Resources
Author: Allison Littlejohn
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780749439507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique book outlines approaches to sharing and reusing resources for sustainable e-learning.
Reusing Open Resources
Author: Allison Littlejohn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1135040036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery day, learners use and reuse open, digital resources for learning. Reusing Open Resources offers a vision of the potential of these open, online resources to support learning. The book follows on from Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-learning. At that time focus was on the creation, release and reuse of digital learning resources modeled on educational materials. Since then the open release of resources and data has become mainstream, rather than specialist, changing societal expectations around resource reuse. Social and professional learning networks are now routine places for the exchange of online knowledge resources that are shared, manipulated and reused in new ways, opening opportunities for new models of business, research and learning. The goal of this book is to extend the debate of how open, online resources might support learning across diverse contexts. Twenty-four distinguished experts from nine countries distributed across Europe and North America contribute empirical evidence and ideas. Collectively they provide a vision of the potential of open, online resources to support learning across everyday contexts of education, work and life.
Reuse and Repurposing of Online Digital Learning Resources Within UK Higher Education, 2003-2010
Author: Chris Pegler
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research set out to examine developments in reuse and repurposing of online digital resources within higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK) over a period (2003-2010), when the emphasis of educational resource reuse and repurposing activity shifted from reusable learning objects (RLO) to open educational resources (OER). It aims to contribute to understanding of this transition, and locates this shift within a broader picture of UK HE activity within the UK, and a wider understanding of reuse of learning resources in digital, online form. The research presents a review and critical examination of the environment in which reuse practice occurred. It does this through macroenvironmental, mesoenvironmental and microenvironmental level reviews. The microenvionmental review is presented through research analysis of five case examples from UK HE and a sixth example from HE in Ireland. The mesoenvironmental review examines the significant changes in resource facilitation and practice during the research period. This thesis is particularly concerned with identifying and understanding how reuse of digital online learning resources was facilitated in practice, and whether reuse occurred, or occurred in the form(s) anticipated. The thesis identifies and examines themes and factors which appeared to have influenced, or had potential to influence, reuse in each case. Cross-case comparison offers a synthesis of the research observations. Finally, a structured approach to classifying factors is suggested based on this research. This leads to generalisable recommendations of how to facilitate digital online resource reuse in the future.
The Development of Reusable Online Learning Resources for Instructional Design Students Based on the Principles of Learning Objects
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this research and development study was to design, develop, evaluate and revise reusable online learning resources based on the principles of learning objects that would support instructional design students' learning and performance in the context of ATC in Saudi Arabia. Using a research and development model (Borg and Gall, 1989), Instructional Design reusable online learning resources (ID-RORs) were iteratively and collaboratively developed and revised based on feedback gathered through formative evaluation. Between each round of qualitative formative evaluation, the ID-RORs were revised based on analysis of the data. Seven main research and development phases were carried out: research and information collecting, a needs assessment, prototype development, expert evaluations, redesign, target user evaluations and redesign. The formative evaluation of ID-RORs consisted of three phases. The first evaluation group was comprised of four experts. The purpose of this evaluation was to conduct a needs assessment. The second phase, which used feedback from two experts and two instructional design teachers, was the expert evaluation. The purpose of this evaluation was to examine the validity of the ID-RORs. The third phase, based on feedback from 11 students, was the user evaluation. The purpose of this evaluation was to examine the practicality of the ID-RORs. The overall results of the needs assessment evaluation showed that the ID-RORs prototype met an important need at ATC. The overall result of the expert evaluation showed that the ID-RORs prototype were valid for the context of ATC. Finally, the result of target user evaluation showed that the ID-RORs as revised with expert and user input were practical for the intended target users. Based on the results of this R & D study, it was concluded that the answer to the research question is yes, it is possible to develop the ID-RORs to meet the specifications of the needs assessment. The characteristics of ID-RORs are very similar to the characteristics of successful (valid and practical) reusable online resources. The final version of the ID-RORs were found to be needed, valid and practical, in the context of ATC.
Reusing Open Resources
Author: Allison Littlejohn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1135040044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery day, learners use and reuse open, digital resources for learning. Reusing Open Resources offers a vision of the potential of these open, online resources to support learning. The book follows on from Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-learning. At that time focus was on the creation, release and reuse of digital learning resources modeled on educational materials. Since then the open release of resources and data has become mainstream, rather than specialist, changing societal expectations around resource reuse. Social and professional learning networks are now routine places for the exchange of online knowledge resources that are shared, manipulated and reused in new ways, opening opportunities for new models of business, research and learning. The goal of this book is to extend the debate of how open, online resources might support learning across diverse contexts. Twenty-four distinguished experts from nine countries distributed across Europe and North America contribute empirical evidence and ideas. Collectively they provide a vision of the potential of open, online resources to support learning across everyday contexts of education, work and life.
Recycling Works!
Author: James Shoals
Publisher: Climate Change
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781422243589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThose big blue barrels seen around the country are helping save the planet--fill them up! Recycling is a big part of many people's daily lives. Cans and bottles are just the tip of the iceberg, however. Inside, read about the many ways that you can recycle just about anything and how those actions can help change the world! Can we save the planet? No issue is more important to the long-term health of our world than climate change. Its effects reach into every aspect of our lives. In this series, learn about the major problem areas . . . and how creative people around the world are working to solve them! Be a part of the solution and read Climate Change: Problems and Progress. CLIMATE CHANGE: PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS Each title in this series includes color photos throughout, and back matter including: an index and further reading lists for books and internet resources. Key Icons appear throughout the books in this series in an effort to encourage library readers to build knowledge, gain awareness, explore possibilities and expand their viewpoints through our content rich non-fiction books. Key Icons in this series are as follows: Words to Understand are shown at the front of the book with definitions. These words are set in boldfaced type throughout the book, so that readers are able to reference back to the definitions--building their vocabulary and enhancing their reading comprehension. Sidebars allow readers to build knowledge and broaden their perspectives by weaving together additional information to provide realistic and holistic perspectives. Educational Videos are offered through the use of a QR code, that, when scanned, takes the student to an online video showing additional content related to the topic on the page. Text-Dependent Questions challenge the reader's comprehension of the material they have just read, while sending the reader back to the text for more careful attention to the evidence presented there. Research Projects are suggested for projects that encourage deeper research and analysis. And a Series Glossary of Key Terms is included in the back matter; this word list contains terminology used throughout the series. Words found here broaden the reader's knowledge and understanding of terms used in this field.
Resource Salvation
Author: Mark Gorgolewski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1118928792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA valuable source of information, insight, and fresh ideas about a crucial aspect of the growing sustainable design movement Mounting resource shortages worldwide coupled with skyrocketing extraction costs for new materials have made the prospect of materials reuse and recycling an issue of paramount importance. A fundamental goal of the sustainable design movement is to derive utmost use from construction materials and components, including energy, water, materials, building components, whole structures, and even entire infrastructures. Written by an expert with many years of experience in both industry and academe, this book explores a wide range of sustainable design strategies which designers around the globe are using to create efficient and aesthetically pleasing buildings from waste streams and discarded items. Emphasizing performance issues, design considerations and process constraints, it describes numerous fully realized projects, and explores theoretical applications still on the drawing board. There is a growing awareness worldwide of the need for cyclical systems of materials reuse. Pioneering efforts at “closed-loop” design date as far back as 1960s, but only recently have architects and designers begun to focus on the opportunities which discarded materials can provide for creating high performance structures. A source of insight and fresh ideas for architects, engineers, and designers, Resource Salvation: Reviews the theory and practice of building material and waste reuse and describes best practices in that area worldwide Describes projects that use closed-loop thinking to influence and inspire the design of components, interiors, whole buildings, or urban landscapes Illustrates how using discarded materials and focusing on closed loops can lead to new concepts in architecture, building science, and urban design Demonstrates how designers have developed aesthetically compelling solutions to the demands of rigorous performance standards Resource Salvation is a source of information and inspiration for architects, civil engineers, green building professionals, building materials suppliers, landscape designers, urban designers, and government policymakers. It is certain to become required reading in university courses in sustainable architecture, as well as materials engineering and environmental engineering curricula with a sustainable design component.
Online Education Using Learning Objects
Author: Rory McGreal
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0415335124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKE-learning is becoming integral to on-site education in universities worldwide, and the rapid explosion of interest in the subject means that this timely, cutting edge book will be an instant and indispensable resource. Among educators, the development of reusable learning objects made accessible via the internet is ever more important to teaching and learning at university. This book takes a studied look at the current state of online education, presenting advice on the creation, adaption and implementation of learning objects and metadata. Including articles written by some of the leading innovators in the field, this book takes the reader through: * designing effective learning objects * creating learning objects * transforming existing content into resuable learning objects * building a metadata management system This book will be essential reference material for course developers at university, postgraduate students, teachers and learners in the field of e-learning.
Online Reusable Resource Assortment Planning with Customer-Dependent Usage Durations
Author: Tianming Huo
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe study an adversarial online assortment problem with reusable resources, under the setting of customer-dependent usage durations. The decision maker (DM) offers assortments of the reusable resources (also referred to as products) to a sequence of online customers, and we first study the case when the DM earns a revenue linear in the usage duration of each chosen product. The DM's objective is to maximize the total revenue, subject to the constraints that the amounts of in-use resource units do not violate the respective resource constraints at all time. Our setting departs from related existing works on assortment planning, where a customer's usage duration on a resource is independent of the customer, but only depends on the resource itself. To handle heterogeneity in usage durations, we propose a novel online algorithm which features the notion of rejection durations. The rejection durations serve to filter out the resource types that are deemed critically loaded in an assortment, in order to reserve capacities for future customers. We show that our online algorithm achieves a competitive ratio within a constant factor of the best possible one, when the capacities are sufficiently large. This is the first work that demonstrates a non-trivial performance guarantee for assortment planning with customer-dependent usage durations. Our results are proved via the design and analysis of the Auxiliary Algorithm (AA), which constructs a feasible solution to a linear program that upper bounds the optimum. The AA differs from traditional online primal and dual algorithms, in the sense that the feasible solution under AA is constructed after the whole online dynamics end. Consequently, the AA is used only for analysis and does not guide the online decisions. We further extend our algorithm framework to the case when the revenue earned from each customer is an affine function of the customer's usage duration, as well as the case when the DM earns a fixed price that only depends on the resource but not the usage duration.
