Summary
The SIMPLE project will bring together a number of innovative projects to offer
a feature rich, multimedia instructional authoring environment that promotes
student learning and skill mastery through case studies.
Content for the SIMPLE project will promote student skill mastery
in Communication Sciences & Disorders. The activities are
mapped to educational standards for this field and prepare students
for professional certification in related career tracks (Speech Therapy,
Communications Special Needs, Rehabilitation Therapy, Occupational
Therapy, etc.). Certified graduates will provide their expertise
across the State of Wisconsin, in our schools, clinics, hospitals,
and nursing homes.
The SIMPLE project will bring together critical course content and
technology tools/expertise. This project will leverage resources
from a FIPSE grant (P116B01062), an NSF educational outreach grant,
and from SAKAI multi-institution funding in combination with existing
DoIT Engage Innovation tools and funding to enhance work to date.
Technical
The Engage program will add the following functionality
to the existing LessonBuilder 2.0 software tool for the SIMPLE prject:
- Develop versions that will run on the desktop.
- Add the ADL
Co-Lab’s Visualizer to enhance the LessonBuilder
2.0 authoring tool.
- Partner with UC-Davis to
pilot a SCORM Run Time Environment (RTE) on the desktop to track
student time on task per session and responses.
- Expand the SCORM RTE to include reporting features for users
and instructors based on XSL:
- student time on task per session
- total correct student responses and/or skill mastery level
per session
- each student’s session results to the instructor in a
format that is easily interpreted
- Include options to print and/or e-mail text responses (essay
answers) to the instructor.
Current and future versions of these authoring tools will be released
as public license (open source) software.
