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Create Interactives with H5P (Five Simple Steps)

H5P (HTML5 Package) is a free online tool that allows you to create and upload, download, and share HTML5 interactive content using H5P.org or by installing a H5P plugin on Drupal, Moodle, or WordPress. 5 Steps to use H5P.org
  Go to https://h5p.org Click on “Create free account” [located in top right corner] and create a free H5P user account. Login to your H5P account with your username and password. Navigate to the “Examples & downloads” page and choose one of the H5P Content Types. Use the “clone content” feature to create a new piece of H5P content from one of the examples. Give the cloned content a title and adapt the cloned content to suit your needs. Choose from the … Create Interactives with H5P (Five Simple Steps)
by · December 29, 2017

Should You Consider an Interactive Video Lesson?

If you are considering developing an online course with Ecampus, you may be curious how you will translate your lectures to the online format. There are several effective online lecture presentation formats available to faculty. They differ in the type of video recording required and the kind of post-production work required after the initial recording. Each of the presentation formats can be effective, however the more complex types can offer additional advantages for your students. Why should you consider producing the most challenging of the five online lecture formats? To answer that question, we need to understand what exactly an interactive video lesson is. Let’s start by first looking at a sample interactive video lesson used in a fall 2017 course titled … Should You Consider an Interactive Video Lesson?
by · December 1, 2017

Quality DOES Matter

What is QM? You may know that OSU is a subscribing member of Quality Matters (QM), a nationally-recognized program focused on online learning course design. Its mission is to measure and guarantee the quality of an online course. QM uses research findings to recommend best practices in online course design. As an instructional designer (ID), I use and apply the QM rubric and quality assurance principles when working with faculty to design Ecampus courses. About a year ago, I took the first QM workshop, called Applying the QM Rubric or APPQMR. By the way, this excellent training is offered through Ecampus each quarter. If you haven’t yet participated, take advantage of it. For more information, contact Karen Watte. Not Just … Quality DOES Matter
by · November 17, 2017

Diving in to Adaptive Learning

The just-released 2017 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium identifies adaptive learning technologies as one of the most important developments in technology for higher education. The report notes that adaptive learning technologies “can adapt to a student in real time, providing both instructors and students with actionable data. The goal is to accurately and logically move students through a learning path, empowering active learning, targeting at-risk student populations, and assessing factors affecting completion and student success.” To raise campus awareness of adaptive learning technologies and their potentials, last spring OSU held an Adaptive and Personalized Learning (APL) Open House featuring 12 adaptive software providers and hosted an Adaptive Learning Systems Workshop with Arizona State University adaptive learning expert Dale … Diving in to Adaptive Learning
by · February 16, 2017

OER Attributions: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

So you’ve located your open materials, Now what? Providing attributions for open educational resources (OERs) is not only required for Creative Commons (CC) licensed materials, but citing sources for collected works is a good practice to follow in general. Documenting the material that you are using by including the author’s name and the name of the license, as well as where you found it can be especially helpful… When embedded content is malfunctioning or fails to appear. You can refer and go to the URL of the content item. When learning what permissions are granted for the content. You can refer to the license name, which informs you what you can do with the material as well what is permissible. … OER Attributions: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
by · February 10, 2017