BREAK OUT SESSION 1
HANDS'ON WORKSHOP: DESIGNING YOUR OER
USING THE WORLD EASIEST OER AUTHORING TOOL
Workshop Language : FRENCH and ENGLISH
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About the Workshop |
This 5-hours workshop is conducted by the director of Lodestar Learning, Robert Bilyk. It will train participants to design their own quality-interactive learning resources that are endogeneous to their culture using the LodeStar OER authoring tool and will plan for workshop follow-ups including webinars and discussions to empower participants so that they can play leadership roles in their institutions' OER plan and e-learning agenda. Participants will receive a copy of the LodeStar authoring tool.
This worKshop will adopt and apply -1- the current Global Operability Standards for designing and publishing Open Education Resources (OER) and -2- best practices for designing quality OER.
Downlad the Workshop Hand out
LodeStar and MAN wanted to thank Mangary
Ka, instructor, FASTEF, UCAD, Senegal -and- Rokhaya, graduate student - Englis Ph.D program, UCAD, Senegal, for their help in translating the workshop Hand-Out into French.
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Workshop Host |
Mr. Robert Bilyk,
Director, Lodestarlearning
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Mr. Robert Bilyk, Director, Lodestarlearning
Robert Bilyk has extensive experience with developing and producing customized online and classroom training. He has served as project manager, researcher, instructional designer and computer programmer on a variety of projects for K-20 schools, Fortune 500 companies and non-profits. For the past ten years, he has divided his time between school administration, and the design and introduction of new eLearning technologies to post-secondary institutions and corporations. He has a strong track record of successfully launching new services. In the non-profit sector, he helped to launch Minnesota Satellite and Technology, St. Paul College’s Instructional Technology Center, and the very first online learning elementary school in the United States: Cyber Village Academy. In 2003, he co-founded LodeStar Learning. LodeStar Learning produces LodeStar, an authoring tool that is now used throughout the world by both K-12 and post-secondary instructors. He designed LodeStar to enable instructors to build rich media resources that utilize a variety of instructional strategies and publish to a variety of learning management platforms.
Affiliations:
| Lodestar | Discussing with Bob |
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About LodeStar Learning and the Authoring Tool |
Established as a Minnesota-based corporation in 2003, LodeStar Learning Inc. is the producer of the widely popular LodeStar authoring tool. K-12 teachers and post-secondary instructors use LodeStar to create educational activities that students access from their school's website or learning management system. LodeStar's easy-to-use templates enable instructors to choose an instructional strategy and add their own text, graphics, audio, video, and animations. LodeStar supports the latest specifications for shareable content and intellectual property. The LodeStar Authoring tool currently supports institutions that publish to Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT, Desire2Learn, Microsoft Class Server, Microsoft Sharepoint Learning Kit and various learning object repositories. LodeStar is used by all 37 colleges of the Minnesota State College and University System (http://www.its.mnscu.edu/contracts/lodestar/index.html), the University of Minnesota and in schools and universities across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Norway, Poland, New Zealand, Taiwan, Bermuda and other countries. LodeStar Learning has entered into strategic partnerships with eFolioWorld (http://www.efolioworld.com), Broad Education (http://www.broadeducation.com), Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/education/slk.mspx), Hewlett Packard, and Microgistix. From 2004 to 2007, the LodeStar authoring tool was featured as a Hewlett Packard LearningPAQ; and, for LodeStar’s support of Microsoft Class Server, the Director of LodeStar Learning has been awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status for three consecutive years. For more information, please contact Robert Bilyk at bob.bilyk@LodeStarLearning.com or visit the website at www.LodeStarLearning.com
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REGISTERING FOR THIS WORKSHOP |
| Registration to the Workshop is $40 for African scholars and $120 for other international attendees. Online registration is available here. |
Thanks to the Pan-African Forum 2009 Sponsors
| University Cheikh Anta Diop | Louisiana Board of Regents | LodeStar | NComputing |
| Asylum Software||| Atlantic-Computing |
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