Object-Oriented Faculty Development: Training Teachers with Learning Objects

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Author(s): Karen Walsh (Consultant, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Human Performance and Instructional Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Holim Song (Texas Southern University, USA)and Terry T. Kidd (Texas A&M University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-782-9.ch031

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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The study outlined in this chapter simulated a faculty development program that utilized a demonstration/ simulation -- a learning object that digitally demonstrates a task then asks the student to replicate it. In this learning environment, participants were given the chance to learn a skill from a teaching tool that they in turn could use in their classrooms. In addition, half the participants were asked to evaluate their learning styles by taking a Multiple Intelligence inventory before working with the demonstration/ simulation. Overall, the participants felt that this study was an enlightening experience for them -- they became more aware of how they learn, which gave them insight on how their students learn. Faculty development designers, human performance training professionals, and instructional technology designers can use the results of this study to gain a greater understanding of object-oriented faculty development programs that improve human performance and appropriate ways to implement them.

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