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Shaun Bangay 2011, Active content for preparation of teaching materials.

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Title Active content for preparation of teaching materials
Author(s) Shaun Bangay
Conference name Deakin University Teaching and Learning Conference (2011 : Burwood, Vic.)
Conference location Burwood, Vic.
Conference dates 2-3 Nov. 2011
Publication date 2011
Total pages [unknown]
Keyword(s) teaching materials
study guides
Summary Teaching materials such as study guides have implicit structure
that can be exploited to explicitly assist in the learning and
teaching process. Document technologies specific to the teaching
context generate visible structures and linkages in a consistent
manner across multiple course materials. We describe techniques
that:

• Create, manage and validate links between the learning
objectives, content related to each objective and
corresponding assessment task.

• Explicitly present relationships between concepts, as a
concept map, related to unit content and external study
resources.

• Treat various study resources (study guide, presentation
slides) as consistent views.

• Facilitate the use of external media to support multiple
modalities.

The process creates teaching content as a single master
document which is annotated to: identify learning outcomes
associated with topics and exercises, relationships between
concepts covered, references to external resources and media,
as well as summary points and keywords. Different views of this
master document produce the range of course documentation.

Examples of documents include: a study guide with learning
outcomes linked to content, concept maps providing a graphical
view of key relationships, and presentation slides that generate
visual mnemonics for important topics.

While this structure simplifies formatting of learning materials
it also offers additional benefits to the teacher. Reports are
generated showing that all outcomes are covered and assessed.
Explicitly annotating and visualizing concepts allows the
lecturer to ensure that all elements fall within a single
scaffold. Simplified access to external media encourages
alternative presentation modalities and produces presentations
that are easily adapted to new themes.
Language eng
Field of Research 080109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Socio Economic Objective 890201 Application Software Packages (excl. Computer Games)
HERDC Research category E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed
HERDC collection year 2011
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30046640

Document type: Conference Paper
Collection: School of Information Technology
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