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2 years since GLO Maker 2 launched
In the 2 years since GLO Maker 2 was launched in Aug 2009 there have been 3,358 downloads in 124 countries.
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GLOs for developing digital literacy skills A series of GLOs have been developed as part of the JISC LTIG-funded project ‘Anytime Literacy Learning Environment’ (ALLE) by the University of West London and London Metropolitan University. The GLOs are in the form of a digital learner journey, which covers academic, library and digital tools skills. The learner journey can be used as it is (http://hermes.uwl.ac.uk/learnerjourney) or the files can be downloaded and adapted to local needs (see http://alle.uwl.ac.uk for details of how to do this). The journey has been used and evaluated by over 200 students at both universities, and has been revised in light of user (student and tutor) feedback.
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Demonstration of GLO Maker to M25 Learning Technologist's Group
Claire Bradley gave a demonstration of the GLO Maker tool and showed how you can adapt already created GLOs at the M25 Learning Technologist's group, held at Regent's College on July 7. The theme of the meeting was 'Free tools'. The M25LTG is an informal network for Learning Technologist's in HE within the greater London area, which meets every 3-4 months. For more information see: http://m25ltg.ning.com/
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GLO Maker downloads, April 2011
Since its launch in August 2009, GLO Maker has been downloaded 2,743 times, in over 113 countries.
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Recent and upcoming presentation and workshops on GLO Maker
Nicola Prime, Uxbridge College, 'Using the GLO Maker authoring tool to create Reusable Learning Objects
(RLO’s)' - Presentation at 'Digital Creativity 2011', 25th May 2011, Islington City Learning Centre, London.
http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/1475/
Event organised by RSC London/RSC Eastern - http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/about/
Enhancing Learning through Good Design using GLO Maker. Presentation and hands-on session
led by Tom Boyle & Carl Smith. ORT, Camden Jan 11 2011
Create your own e-learning resources using GLO Maker. Two one day workshops sponsored by fdf
(Foundation Degree Forward). London Metropolitan University, February 17th and March 16th 2011
Creating Media Rich Learning Resources using GLO Maker. Invited presentation by Tom Boyle
at Oxford University Computing Services, May 24 2011.
GLOMaker – An Authoring Tool for Reusable Learning Objects. Presentation by Tom Boyle at
Special session on Persuasive Learning for The Hebrew Bible: Society of Biblical Literature International
Meeting, London, July 4 2011.
Nicola Prime, Uxbridge College, 'Using the GLO Maker authoring tool to create Reusable Learning Objects
(RLO’s)' - Presentation at 'Digital Creativity 2011', 25th May 2011, Islington City Learning Centre, London.
http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/1475/
Event organised by RSC London/RSC Eastern - http://www.rsc-london.ac.uk/about/
Enhancing Learning through Good Design using GLO Maker. Presentation and hands-on session
led by Tom Boyle & Carl Smith. ORT, Camden Jan 11 2011
Create your own e-learning resources using GLO Maker. Two one day workshops sponsored by fdf
(Foundation Degree Forward). London Metropolitan University, February 17th and March 16th 2011
Creating Media Rich Learning Resources using GLO Maker. Invited presentation by Tom Boyle
at Oxford University Computing Services, May 24 2011.
GLOMaker – An Authoring Tool for Reusable Learning Objects. Presentation by Tom Boyle at
Special session on Persuasive Learning for The Hebrew Bible: Society of Biblical Literature International
Meeting, London, July 4 2011.
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Tom Boyle gave invited talks in KuwaitTom Boyle recently gave two invited talks in Kuwait. Both talks included short demonstrations of GLO Maker. The talks were:
- e-Learning Systems and Tools. Keynote presentation at the eLearning Regional Conference (eRC 2011), Kuwait, March 28 2011.
- Enhancing Learning through Good Design: Invited talk. University of Kuwait College of Engineering and Petroleum, March 31 2011.
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Anytime Learning Literacies Environment (ALLÉ) project GLOs This JISC-funded project has used GLO Maker to create a series of GLOs to form Learning Journeys to help students develop digital literacy skills. A prototype of the journeys is currently being used by students at Thames Valley University and London Met. At the end of the project, after the journeys have been refined in the light of student evaluation, the journeys and the individual GLOs within them will be made available for other Institutions to use or adapt (using GLO Maker) for their own needs.
See the prototype Learning Journeys | More information is in the ALLE Project Wiki
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Successful European Lifelong Learning Bid
GLO Maker 2 is one year old, August 2010
Since it was launched at the end of August 2009, GLO Maker 2 has been downloaded 1,560 times. And the website [www.glomaker.org] has attracted 10,099 visits from 6,448 unique users from 95 countries: the top 5 visitors are from UK, USA, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
GLO Maker to be used to produce learning materials for JISC-funded project
Thames Valley University and London Met have been awarded funding for a 12-month JISC Learning and Teaching Innovation project entitled 'Anytime Learning Literacies Environment (ALLÉ)'. The project will be using GLO Maker to produce a series of learning objects. The aim of the project is to evaluate a scaffolded digital learning literacy environment, which will enable learners to embark on an interactive learner journey, using reusable learning objects, supporting their learning and literacy acquisition. Existing interactive materials will be brought together in a cohesive and structured framework enclosed in a wraparound shell. The final resource will be designed for repurpose and evaluation across a range of authentic contexts (e.g. workplace, community or placement).
Some upcoming GLO workshops and talks – posted July 23
Following from the two workshops in late July there will be a series of GLO workshops and talks in late summer. These include:
Tom Boyle, Carl Smith and Richard Windle ran a successful workshop on Workshop “How to create your own eLearning resources using the GLO maker tool” at the University of Wolverhampton on July 14. This workshop was sponsored by fdf (Foundation Degree Forward) to support developments relating to the projects in Health and Social Care.
Tom Boyle presented a keynote talk on “Enhancing learning through good design“ at ICT 2010 held in Singapore from June 30-July 2 (http://www.unisim.edu.sg/microsites/ICT2010). The talk presented an ecological perspective on learning in the 21st century and discussed ‘design for learning’ at module, session and learning object level. A central feature of the talk was a description of generative learning objects (GLOs) and a demonstration of GLO Maker 2. The talk was very well received, with the GLO Maker 2 demonstration attracting particular interest. The slides are available on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/TomBoyle/singapore-slides-ict-2010
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Three papers on GLOs presented at the OER 10 Conference, Cambridge, 22-24 March
http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer10/
We are partners in a successful European Lifelong learning Bid called EuroPLOT, worth 500,000 Euros. A key part of this project is further developing and using GLO Maker. The project is led by Janet Finlay at Leeds Metropolitan University, with partners in four European countries. EuroPLOT will extend GLO Maker by adding 'persuasive learning patterns' and new components and activities. We will use these tools to create and then repurpose learning resources in four subject areas: language learning, environmental science, business computing and archival studies. The project will then evaluate the impact of the persuasive learning objects on learner engagement. The start date for the project has yet to be finalised, but it should be in late 2010.
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GLO Maker 2 is one year old, August 2010Since it was launched at the end of August 2009, GLO Maker 2 has been downloaded 1,560 times. And the website [www.glomaker.org] has attracted 10,099 visits from 6,448 unique users from 95 countries: the top 5 visitors are from UK, USA, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
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GLO Maker to be used to produce learning materials for JISC-funded project
Thames Valley University and London Met have been awarded funding for a 12-month JISC Learning and Teaching Innovation project entitled 'Anytime Learning Literacies Environment (ALLÉ)'. The project will be using GLO Maker to produce a series of learning objects. The aim of the project is to evaluate a scaffolded digital learning literacy environment, which will enable learners to embark on an interactive learner journey, using reusable learning objects, supporting their learning and literacy acquisition. Existing interactive materials will be brought together in a cohesive and structured framework enclosed in a wraparound shell. The final resource will be designed for repurpose and evaluation across a range of authentic contexts (e.g. workplace, community or placement).
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Some upcoming GLO workshops and talks – posted July 23
Following from the two workshops in late July there will be a series of GLO workshops and talks in late summer. These include:
- A talk on by Tom Boyle on “Using GLO Maker to create learning/teaching material” at the `CaRILLO: (Creating and Re-using Information Literacy Learning Objects) symposium at the University of Birmingham on Tuesday 3rd August, 2010.
- A GLO Maker workshop at “ALT C 2010” (Tom Boyle & Claire Bradley) – the UK premier conference on Technology enhanced Learning Sept 7-9th- http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/
- A GLO workshop in London for the AIM25 Librarians Group on 25 September: http://www.aim25.ac.uk/ AIM25 is “a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over one hundred higher education institutions, learned societies, cultural organisations and livery companies within the greater London area”.
Tom Boyle, Carl Smith and Richard Windle ran a successful workshop on Workshop “How to create your own eLearning resources using the GLO maker tool” at the University of Wolverhampton on July 14. This workshop was sponsored by fdf (Foundation Degree Forward) to support developments relating to the projects in Health and Social Care.
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Tom Boyle presented a keynote talk on “Enhancing learning through good design“ at ICT 2010 held in Singapore from June 30-July 2 (http://www.unisim.edu.sg/microsites/ICT2010). The talk presented an ecological perspective on learning in the 21st century and discussed ‘design for learning’ at module, session and learning object level. A central feature of the talk was a description of generative learning objects (GLOs) and a demonstration of GLO Maker 2. The talk was very well received, with the GLO Maker 2 demonstration attracting particular interest. The slides are available on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/TomBoyle/singapore-slides-ict-2010
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Three papers on GLOs presented at the OER 10 Conference, Cambridge, 22-24 March
http://www.ucel.ac.uk/oer10/
- How to get GLO-ing: GLO Maker 2.1 unleashed, A. Leeder. See abstract
- Repurposing with a purpose – a story with a happy ending, L. Greaves, C. Bradley & S. Roller. See abstract
- Opening up special collections: the use of GLO Maker with resources from the Women's Library, T. Doherty, D. Holley & T. Boyle. See abstract
