Dallas TeleLearning Presents The VALOR Project: Video Learning Resources

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Dallas TeleLearning Presents The VALOR
Project Video Learning Resources

• TxDLA 2007
• March 28, 2007
• Presented by
• Bob Crook
• Rachelle Howell

Celebrating excellence in distance education
since 1972
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Dallas TeleLearningWho We Are

• Video-based courseware Producer/Developer since
  1972
• Have produced more than 40 telecourses used
  nationwide in areas of
• Accounting, Business, Earth Science, Economics,
  English, Government, Health, History, Humanities,
  Literature, Nutrition, Sociology
• More than 1,500 colleges and universities
  nationally have used our courses
• More than 2,000,000 students nationally have
  enrolled in our courses

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Dallas TeleLearningInstructional Design/Course
Development Process

• 1-2 Year Process
• 1.2 Million Investment
• National and Local Faculty Advisory Team
• Development Team Content Specialist,
  Instructional Designer, Producer, Director, etc.
• Interviews With Over 60 Experts Nationally
• Yields typically 780 minutes of video per course

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Learning ObjectsWhat are they?

• Three Prominent Characterizations 
• "modular digital resources, uniquely identified
  and metatagged, that can be used to support
  learning"
• National Learning Infrastructure Initiative
• "any digital resource that can be reused to
  support learning" 
• David A. Wiley, "Connecting Learning Objects to
  Instructional Design Theory" 
• "The main idea of 'learning objects' is to break
  educational content down into small chunks that
  can be reused in various learning environments,
  in the spirit of object-oriented programming"  
• "Any entity, digital or non-digital, that may
  be used for learning, education or training"
• IEEE 1484.12.1-2002, 15 July 2002, Draft Standard
  for Learning Object Metadata, IEEE Learning
  Technology Standards Committee (LTSC)
• http//ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/files/LOM_1484_12_1_v1_F
  inal_Draft.pdf

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Learning ObjectsWhy use them?

• Helps faculty/ID create high-quality, media-rich
  courses that include video, audio, images,
  exercises, etc. (move beyond text)
• Reduce time and money needed to develop
  high-quality, media-rich courses
• Appeal to multiple learning styles
• Faculty can easily customize course
• Engage me or enrage me Marc Prensky

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Video Learning ResourcesWhat are they?

• Not prescriptive
• Small instructional video components (2-7 min.)
• Can be reused a number of times in different
  learning contexts
• Deliverable over the Internet
• Any number of people/institutions can access and
  use them simultaneously
• Self-contained
• Can be aggregated
• Are tagged with metadata

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The VALOR ProjectExpected Results

• 1300-1500 clips
• Use in CMS, face-to-face, hybrid
• Fully searchable repository
• Available in-District fall - Bb module
• Pilot nationwide beginning late summer -
  subscription service, prices to be determined
  tiers for institutions and individual faculty

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The Valor Project Disciplines being Clipped

• Microeconomics Choices Change
• Macroeconomics Choices Change
• U.S. History (to 1877) Shaping America
• U.S. History (from 1877) Transforming America
• Sociology Exploring Society
• Health Journey to Health
• Government Voices in Democracy
• Accounting Principles I II, Financial,
  Managerial
• Nutrition Nutrition Pathways
• Business Its Strictly Business
• English Composition I II The Writers Circle,
  The Writers Odyssey

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Questions
Thank you! Rachelle Howell rhowell_at_dcccd.edu 972-
669-6651