Our Learning Material
Assessment Tool: Forms, templates, and technologies for measuring performance.
Assignment: Activities or lesson plans designed to enable students to
learn skills and knowledge.
Case Study: A narrative resource describing a complex interaction of
real life factors to help illustrate the
impact and/or interactions of concepts and factors in depth.
Collection: A meaningful organization of learning resources such as web
sites, documents, apps, etc. that provides users an easier way to discover the
materials..
Development Tool: Software development applications platforms for authoring
technology-based resources (e.g. web sites, learning objects, apps.).
Drill and Practice: Requires users to respond repeatedly to questions or stimuli
presented in a variety of sequences. Users practice on their own, at their own
pace, to develop their ability to reliably perform and demonstrate the target
knowledge and skills.
ePortfolio: A collection of electronic materials assembled and managed by
a user. These may include text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog
entries, and links. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user’s
abilities and platforms for self-expression, and, if they are online, they can
be maintained dynamically over time. An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of
learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement.
Hybrid/Blended Course: The organization and presentation of course curriculum
required to deliver a complete course that blends online and face-to-face
teaching and learning activities.
Illustration/Graphic: Visual concepts, models, and/or processes (that are not
photographic images) that visually present concepts, models, and/or processes
that enable students to learn skills or knowledge. These can be diagrams,
illustrations, graphics or infographics in any file format including Photoshop,
Illustrator and other similar file types.
Learning Object Repository: A searchable database of at least 100 online
resources that is available on the Internet and whose search result displays an
ordered hit list of items with a minimum of title metadata. A webpage with a
list of links is not a learning object repository.
Online Course: The organization and presentation of course curriculum
required to deliver a complete course fully online.
Online Course Module: A component or section of a course curriculum that can be
presented fully online and independent from the complete course.
Open Textbook: An online textbook offered by its author(s) with Creative
Commons, public domain, or other acceptable use license agreement allowing use
of the ebook at no additional cost.
Presentation: Teaching materials (text and multimedia) that are used to
present curriculum and concepts to learners.
Quiz/Test: Any assessment device intended to evaluate the knowledge
and/or skills of learners.
Reference Material: Material with no specific instructional objectives and
similar to that found in the reference area of a library. Subject specific
directories to other sites, texts, or general information are examples.
Syllabus: A document or website that outlines the requirements and expectations
for completing a course of study. Course Outlines would also be included in
this.
Tutorial: Users navigate through a set of scaffolded learning activities designed
to meet stated learning objectives, structured to impart specific concepts or
skills, and organized sequentially to integrate conceptual presentation,
demonstration, practice and testing.
Feedback on learner performance is an essential component of a tutorial.
Video – Instructional: A recording of moving visual images
that show real people, places and things that enable students to learn skills
or knowledge.
