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A number of reusable learning objects have been developed as part of recent development fund projects. These are freely available for use by the Information and Computer Sciences academic community. Further details of these reusable learning objects can be found below.
Title: Second Life Toolkits
Creators:
Jane Chandler, Dr Jonathan Crellin, Timothy Collinson, Emma Duke-Williams
Subject:
Second LIfe, education, virtual worlds
Short description:
This is a project contains packages of high quality teaching tools and resources which will enable academics new to Second Life to quickly put together teaching activities.
Educational Level: Introductory
Title: Cryptography Workbench
Creators:
Fintan Culwin,
Gus Moritario, RA
Subject:
Cryptography
Short description:
A cryptography workbench and associated supporting materials. The major aim is that this can be taken to and/or used in schools to facilitate an understanding of applied computing per se; rather than ongoing familiarity with personal productivity tools.
Educational Level: school level
Title: Video-based learning objects for teaching human-computer interaction at different levels
Creators:
Janet Finlay
Subject:
video, podcasts, web streaming, human-computer interaction
Short description:
. Four video-based learning objects
illustrate four key HCI themes: Know the User; Paper Prototyping; Evaluation; and Accessibility.
Educational Level: Across degree levels
Title: OnLine Assessments for Teaching Artificial Intelligence
Creators:
Jim Smith, Andrew Warrington, Steve Cayzer
Subject:
Artificial Intelligence, Questionbank
Short description:
The questions cover a range of topics in Artificial Intelligence, and each question is tagged with meta data concerning its primary topic (introduction, philosophy, search, knowledge representation, problem representation, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation} and level of difficulty (easy, moderate, difficult).
Educational Level: level 1 undergraduate
Title: Developing a Module on Information Literacy (IL)
Creator:
Barbara Chivers
Subject:
Information Literacy
Short description:
These learning objects are designed to offer guidance to tutors interested in developing a module on Information Literacy (IL). Suggested aims and learning outcomes are provided that can be adapted to suit the needs of the host university course. Further guidance is given on suggested content, use of assignments, exercises and workshops.
Educational Level: Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate / Masters level students
Title: Systematic Review Teaching Materials
Creator:
Christine Urquhart,
Dina Tbaishat,
Alison Brettle,
Alison Yeoman
Subject:
Systematic Review
Short description:
The Units are aimed at undergraduates preparing for their final project or dissertation. Postgraduates in library and information science should also find the materials relevant to their research training. The Units complement, but do not replace existing research methods modules.
Educational Level: Undergraduates
Title: Project Management Teaching Materials for ILS Students
Creator:
Barbara Chivers
Subject:
Project Management
Short description:
These learning objects have been developed as an ILS commissioned project for the Higher Education Agency. They provide concise introductions to project management set within the context of the information and library sector.
Educational Level: Introductory
Title: Computer Science Concepts - A Set Of Multiple-Choice Questions
Creator:
Dr Rong Yang
Subject:
Computer Science Concepts
Short description:
A large self-contained set of multiple choice questions on computer science concepts. Questions cover most areas of computing theory at an introductory level. Some questions on discrete maths are also included .
Educational Level: level one
Creator:
Susan Curtis
Subject:
Teaching and learning Database systems
Short description:
These reusable learning objects are for supporting the teaching of basic concepts in the field of database systems and for enhancing the learning experience. They cover Entity-relationship models, Cardinality, Determinacy and Normalisation. (note: the first rlo is available now with several more to be added shortly)
Educational Level: Introductory
Title: Java Virtual Machine Reusable Learning Object
Creator:
Bernard Chalk & Alan Clements
Subject:
Java, Programming
Short description:
This is a learning object designed to support the teaching of introductory Java programming.
Educational Level: Introductory
Title: Pre-Object Oriented Programming Learning Environments
Creator:
Prof. Fintan Culwin
Subject:
Computing, software development, programming
Short description:
Three Pre-Object Oriented Programming Learning Environments (POOPLEs). POOPLEs facilitate the learning of software development via the construction of simple Java programs, almost entirely by pressing buttons.
Educational Level: From Key stage 4 to taught postgraduate
Title: Re-usable learning objects for Law Librarianship
Creator:
Nicola Wakefield
Subject:
Law reports,
Law,
legal reference material, print resources
Short description:
Eleven Re-usable learning objects for Law Librarianship covering subjects such as 'Case Law', 'Using Medical Dictionaries' and 'Using Halsbury's Laws of England'.
Educational Level: Any user new to law librarianship
Title: Pedagogically driven reusable learning objects for the Multimedia curriculum
Creator:
Peter McKenna
Subject:
Multimedia Computing
Short description:
Four
learning objects for the Level 1 Multimedia Computing curriculum
covering topics such as 'Comparative characteristics of bitmap and vector graphics', 'The principle of bitmapping',
'Pixel Group Processing' and '
The RGB Colour Model'
Educational Level: Year 1 HE
Title: Network Protocols and WiFi (IEEE 802.11)
Creator:
Colin Allison
Subject:
WiFi (IEEE 802.11)
Short description:
A set of
learning objects to support teaching and learning about Network Protocols and WiFi (IEEE 802.11), the wireless network protocol which is now in extensive and routine use.
Title: Information literacy questionbank
Creator:
Ruth Stubbings & Ginny Franklin
Subject:
Information literacy
Short description:
This object contains questions that are designed to test a students information literacy skills.
It tests both factual knowledge and comprehension.
Educational Level: Year 1 HE
Title: The Interactive Lecture Project
Creator:
D. G. Elliman
Short description:
This project allows students to communicate their understanding, and make comments or ask questions as a lecture proceeeds using their mobile telephone.
Title: Introduction To OO Software Execution Models
Creator:
Michael Idowu, Matthew Leonard, Eilidh McAdam, Allan Milne
Subject:
Underlying OO programming concepts, the support provided by OO run-time environments, the Microsoft .Net Framework, and/or the C# programming language.
Short description:
This is a learning object designed to
provide access to teaching and learning materials that introduce some underlying concepts of object-oriented software execution models.
Title: Developing Software Agents using .NET
Creator:
Maria Fasli and Michael Michalakopoulos
Subject:
Programming, .Net
Short description:
This project aims to develop practical guidelines for implementing software agents with the Microsoft .NET platform.
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