ERIC Number: EJ1259100
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Publication Date: 2019
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Implementing Individualized Learning in a Legacy Learning Management System: A Feasibility Prototype for an Online Statistics Course
M. Earnest Morrow; Dabae Lee
International Journal of Designs for Learning, v10 n1 p131-144 2019
Educators are being encouraged to shift their instructional paradigm from teacher-centered to learner-centered through the use of technology. For online courses, legacy learning management products originally designed to support and deliver teacher-centered instruction may represent a constraint to implementing the learner-centered paradigm. Yet, replacement of these systems presents a formidable hurdle to educators wishing to initiate learner-centered online courses. This hurdle could be lowered significantly by a transitional approach that allows learner-centered strategies to be delivered within the framework of existing learning management systems. This paper describes our efforts to prototype such a transitional approach for an online statistics course. Pedagogical and technological objectives were successfully achieved by combining the technologies of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), a legacy learning management system, and a stand-alone course authoring tool to deliver an example course demonstrating adaptive, competency-based student progress instruction that personalizes one's learning path with topic-contingent assessment feedback.
Descriptors: Statistics, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Instructional Design, Management Systems, Models, Competency Based Education, Feedback (Response), College Students, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Instruction
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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