The Borders College e-Olympics

Gold medal winners:

Design: Italy (Jenny Gillies & Judy Morris)

Pedagogy: Germany (Paula Hutchison & Simon Watson)

Accessibility: Russia (Kathy Christie & Simon Chlopas)

Silver medal winners:

Design: Turkey (Jacqueline Neill & Laura Peoples)

Pedagogy:Kenya (Pearl Ford & Susan Jarosz)

Accessibility: Armenia (Julie Baxter & Lesley
Johnson)

An Example Learning Object:

To try to demonstrate the stages of the process – beginning with a Mind Map and ending with an interactive learning sequence – Hugh Dailly, Curriculum Advisor for RSC Scotland North & East, has put together the following example:

• An Introduction to Poetry

Links:

• e-Olympics home page
• The RSC's website

The e-Olympics: What does it involve?

• Discovering the pedagogical principles behind the concept of 'learning objects'
• Identifying an area for object development, drawn from their own teaching experience.
• Buildingthe framework for the object in a systematic and structured manner
• Tackling the issues of student interactivity and accessibility
• Creating resources to support the delivery of the learning sequence, drawing on a mixture of original materials and pre-prepared learning assets from existing repositories
• Packaging the object on completion, ready for use on its own or within a VLE