AESOP AESOP The Academic Educational Support Object Program Perhaps it should be a National Object Based Learning Environment project or a NOBLE project! N L I 11/1/95

AESOP Changing Environment  The sign of an educated man was how much knowledge he possessed

AESOP Now...  The sign of an educated person is how he or she can find out what they need to know and  to evaluate it and  to use it

AESOP Do you find...  It is often easier to find something 1,000’s of miles away than 50 feet down the hall?  When you get it, it is in the wrong format?  When you press a navigation button it really isn’t?  You probably could make it work but you can’t alter it to fit your situation?

AESOP Current Situation in Instructional Support Programs  Many great programs throughout the country  Excellent software being produced  Teaching Centered  Learning Centered  Course Ware  Support  Remediation  BUT....

AESOP Problems  Most are developed in a unique environment, for use in a unique environment  Those that are designed for a broad audience are often single stand alone applications  Many are discipline specific and are tough to generalize  Many can’t easily fit a professors intent

AESOP One vision  Develop an environment that plugs and plays interactive objects that have instructional support for:  Class administration,  Class presentation,  Class assessment,  Class feed back and  Cut across all disciplines.

AESOP Could be...  A set of common definitions for that which we do,  A set of standards to which we develop,  A series of programs taken on by various institutions to fill in the gaps,  A setting of a common input and output architecture,  Testing of current applications in other environments with support for adapting it here or there.

AESOP Blurring academic and administration  Click to add Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson Class List

AESOP Blurring academic and administration Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson Class List Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson C B D C B B C D B C A A D F C D A B A A B C A B C B D C I A B I D A F D Grade Book  Click to add  From one to another

AESOP Blurring academic and administration Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson Class List Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson C B D C B B C D B C A A D F C D A B A A B C A B C B D C I A B I D A F D Grade Book  Click to add  From one to another  Adding results From an instructional application

AESOP A deeper vision for instructional administration  Moving Icons  Add names from class list to grade book  Add grades from grade book to grade sheet  Just drag and drop. Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson Abbott Biltmore Chavez Dittmer Easly Frank Gill Ho Ing Jackson C B D C B B C D B C A A D F C D A B A A B C A B C B D C I A B I D A F D CBCADABCIDCBCADABCID Grade Book Grade Sheet Class List

AESOP Going even deeper  A set of objects that interoperate  All Grade books interchangeable  Quantitative and qualitative  Selecting the outputs and inputs  Comments in grade book to feedback note to student to final grade “letter”

AESOP What would it take?  Standards  Elements to be included  Applications to be included  Adaptation or generation of applications

AESOP Course Tool Objects  Management  Learning  Communication  Developer Created Objects  Object Security  Support for using objects  Standards

AESOP Management  Automated grade book with student faces  Automated ordering and trouble shooting system over all the campus that even a faculty member can use  Automated grade sheets with electronic signatures  More instruction collaboration and dynamic building of groups and software, projects, resources for projects from every source  Whatever --- interfaces with administrative systems  Syllabus to the bookstore  Facilitate administration for faculty

AESOP  Homework submission-grading-quiz, management, security  Tools that track and send errors and use to developer and instructors  Automatically generated (grouped and dynamic)  Common test tools  Updated learning communities, list serves, etc.  Interfacing reserve with library and bookstore  Gathering use stats (hits on field)  Tools for recording, indexing, keeping track of assignments

AESOP Learning  Interaction of multimedia-text, images and data bases easily  Instructors tool kit for presentation (content drives presentation)  Basic tools, notebooks, etc.  Tools for scaffolding learning ( reflection, connection, abstraction etc. )  Glossary builder with intelligent levels  Sharing documents and editing

AESOP Communication  Any application can access information off of the Internet  Standards to send from program to instructor  Link dynamic info in the net to a program, etc.  Apprenticeship- common way to design and manage those relationships, student work by and with them  Virtual group discussion with FAQ and Chat

AESOP Developer Created Objects  Professors assistant forums- construct courses where pieces in graphics - collect info easily and use (FORTE)  Instructors tool kit for presentation (content drives presentation)  Management tool for collaboration  Basic tools, notebooks, etc.  Increase customize of prepared software  Anybody draw and convert to simulations and models  Tools that track and send errors and use to developer and instructors  tools for easy form generation -faculty and students  Tools for recording, indexing, keeping track of assignments

AESOP Object Security  Security issues-software

AESOP Support for using objects

AESOP Standards  Involvement/collaboration in defining and developing standards – Involvement of faculty and collaboration with all of these tools  Object standards – Common format for syllabi – Standard nomenclature for instructional situations, searching, indexing etc.. – Common set of buttons and actions and what they are called – Distribution of images – Tools for navigation framework, personalized by student or faculty members – Copyright solution

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