1. The D2LLO Project: A Successful Collaborative Project Using Learning Objects Lorna Wong – UW-Whitewater Nicholle Stone – UW- Stout Merlot Conference, August 2004

2. Who we are ….. University of Wisconsin System UW-BarronUW-Fond du LacUW-Fox Valley

3. Is made up of : 26 Institutions –13 Four Years Campuses –13 Freshman-Sophomore campuses – and UW Extension Common systems –Enterprise SIS –Enterprise Library –Enterprise HR –Enterprise CMS – Desire2Learn (D2L) LTDC – Learning Technology Development Council –Instructional Technologists from each campus

4. Adopting D2L as our CMS UWS adopted Desire2Learn as a system wide Course Management System There is an immediate need to create training material for both faculty & students This offers an excellent opportunity to collaborate and share resources among campuses

5. JELLO? D2LLO stands for D2L Learning Objects A project inspired by: –The need for generating commonly used training material quickly –The importance for shareable training material with flexible formats –The enthusiasm of a group of dedicated LTDC folks to do a real application in learning objects no, D2LLO

6. Forming the D2LLO group 12 instructional technologists from the campuses participated The ADL-Colab “SCO Days” conference in Madison on June 2003 provided an opportunity to hone technical skills, brainstorm and do group planning UWS sponsored the group to attend the conference and supported the ongoing work

7. D2LLO Project Goals Create learning objects that cover all major areas of D2L for faculty Training Keep these learning objects small, granular, and standards conformant Ensure the LOs can easily be incorporated into training material of various formats Open these learning objects to all D2L trainers at UWS or beyond

8. D2LLO Process Divide the group into 5 teams, each with a lead person –Each responsible for a functional area faculty uses Each team maps the tasks needed to comprehensively understand the function –Decide on the granularity of each LO to match a task Communication during the project –Email –Conference calls –F2F work sessions ( 3 times total) –Spreadsheet for tracking LO mapping and progress

9. Collaborative Design & Prototype A prototype of a learning object was designed & created as a group effort –During our SCO Days face-to-face meeting A detailed 32 pages step-by-step documentation on creating a LO was developed –key to consistency in the construction of the LOs A common D2L course is used for creation –Key to ensure common look and feel

10. D2LLO Repositories & Dissemination Use D2L as a central repository for LOs & documentation –Created a D2L course site at UWS as a testing groundUWS A website was designed to organize the LOs for easy access and distributionwebsite

11. Project Timeline June 2003 - SCO Days – F2F team meeting to develop prototype June-August 2003 – refine prototype and documentation –F2F meeting to work through LO development process August – January – LOs created and deposited into D2L course site and external website January 2004 – Retreat to finish production March – June 2004 - Edit and final polish –Proofreading and editing to flush out inconsistency –Modification and cleanup

12. Using the D2LLO Learning Objects Incorporated into various training materialvarious training material Directly linked to the D2LLO repository website Presented as an organized training resource inside D2Ltraining resource inside D2L Embedded into the HELP tool in D2LHELP tool

13. Anatomy of a Learning Object

14. Anatomy of a Learning Object - behind the scenes Detailed specification sheet –File naming conventions –Typeface, sizes, use of styles –Use of colors, logo Consistent wording and level of detail in captions SCORM conformant

15. Tools for Creation RoboDemo - (now Macromedia) –Screen captures, animation export, text/image export Word - (Microsoft Office) –Editing text/image document Dreamweaver (Macromedia) –Index file, SCORM runtime wrapper, imsmanifest WinZip (or OS provided) –Packaging for import into D2L

16. Using RoboDemo Screen capture software Screenshots Mouse movements and clicks Captions Flash (.swf) output Text/image output (Word)

17. Using Dreamweaver MX Index page

18. SCORM Runtime Wrapper (extension)

19. IMS Manifest Edit XML file directly in Dreamweaver Project documentation guidelines

20. Packaging, Importing Compressed to Zip format Import into D2L, unpackaged as a content topic with title Use D2L files area as repository

21. Tool/File Integration

22. Why this Format? Flexibility Suit multiple learning styles Greater accessibility of formats to audience

23. Our Challenges The steps involved in the creation of each LO are rather complex Each participant faces an overload of duties, including conversion of previous CMS to D2L on each campus D2L released new version and major patches during the year –Participants need to relearn the platform –LOs need to be modified

24. Accomplishments Created 150 LOs on 5 major functional areas for faculty training Learned new skills on the tools and understanding of LO and SCOs The LOs was a welcome training supplement within the UW campuses and other institutions This LO concept is adopted by the vendor as a model for building its own learning community resources

25. Lessons Learned The project was too labor intensive for the already overloaded instructional technologists – started with 12 participants, only 6 active members left Incentive can keep interest –Stipend help to sustain the group Keeping consistency and organization of an end- product created by a diverse group of authors is not trivial

26. D2LLO - Editing Phase Single editor (multiple authors) Check for consistency –Styles –Caption wording

27. Next Steps Phase 2 – learning objects for student tasks Updates as new versions are released SCORM 2004 Tracking & Sequencing Updates to documentation as SCORM changes How do we deal with the next phase? –Hire students –Collaborate with other institutions –Continue with the SWAT team approach How do we evaluate and assess the usage of these LOs ?

28. The Active People in D2LLO Cheryl Diermyer – Whitewater Pat Fellows – UW-Colleges (co-ordinator) Cid Freitag – Madison Molly Immendorf – Extension Kathy Konicek – Madison Sherri Post – Stout (documentation) Nicholle Stone – Stout (technical testing) Simone Vuong – UW-Colleges (editor) Lorna Wong – Whitewater (coordinator, website manager) A Collaborative LTDC group at UW System campuses

29. More Examples How to add a link in the NavBar How to Add a Discussion Topic Adding Feedback to students in the Dropbox Adding Feedback to students in the Dropbox Setting up Quiz Layout & questions

30. Questions?

31. Contact us Lorna Wong – wongl@uww.eduwongl@uww.edu Nicholle Stone – stonen@uwstout.edustonen@uwstout.edu D2LLO website- http://www.uww.edu/d2l/http://www.uww.edu/d2l/ This presentation will be available at: http://ltc.uww.edu/merlot/d2llo.ppt