Overview
Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Education and Training Institute in collaboration with Cambrian College, the Basic Radiological Technician Program, and the Ojibway and Cree Cultural Centre, will be developing Basic Radiography digital learning objects and online courseware to help support the training of remote First Nations community members to become proficient Basic Radiological Technicians. Basic Radiological Technicians work under the direction of physicians and nurses in the provision of clinical radiography (x-ray) services to patients within their own home communities.
Learning objects will help to support “visual learning” and “learning by doing” among First Nations learners. The project uses eDome a high-tech, digital, multimedia specially designed facility developed at Cambrian College that facilitates the audio and video capturing of objects in a cinema-like production environment. The project will use eDome to house a typical First Nations radiographic clinical setup complete with the mobile AMX-4 x-ray machine to capture and produce a series of learning objects of Aboriginal radiological technicians performing radiographic clinical procedures on Aboriginal patients. The project will also use Moodle to deliver and distribute learning objects and online courseware.
The project will enable First Nations learners and learning organizations to have more effective access to digital educational learning objects and online courseware in their traditional languages and in ways appropriate to their needs and cultural context.
Aims & Objectives
The project aims to capture aspects of transforming the whole Basic Radiography learning experience, including the role played by technology, from transforming print-based learning materials into digital learning objects to developing and delivering fully online courseware. Its focus is on teaching and learning clinical radiography at a distance using online technologies.
The project will contribute to the wider Aboriginal e-learning community in Ontario through the following objectives:
- Aid the diffusion, uptake and harmonization of e-learning among Aboriginal post-secondary education institutions in Ontario.
- Facilitate collaboration among Aboriginal and mainstream higher education institutions in the creation, sharing and use of quality digital educational/learning objects and collections.
- Facilitate the infusion of Aboriginal social, cultural and pedagogical needs and considerations in the design, development and delivery of e-learning for Aboriginal adult learners.
- Demonstrate and validate the use of open source software tools, systems and standards to support sustainable Aboriginal e-learning environments.
- Address the technical and infrastructural challenges to surmount in making e-learning accessible and widely available to Aboriginal learning organizations and their learners.
Methodology
The project will be implemented in the spirit of open source development. Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the development of web-based products and resources. The project team will adopt the open source model of collaboration to create and share learning objects and online courseware. Team members will be trained in the use of the project website and associated collaborative communication tools to support project activities.
The project will use Cambrian College’s eDome facility to produce high-quality learning objects using the following development methodology:
- Pre-Production: objectives defined, equipment, materials and personnel (subject expert, actors, extras) defined, rough script and storyboard created, production plans set, and alternative plans defined.
- Production: in studio recording sessions, off camera voice overs, graphics and still image capture/creation.
- Post-Production: editing the content into final run time length, combining all other visual content (graphics, logos, still images), combining all other audio content (sound effects, voice over, music), and creation of a master production.
- Authoring: creation of master DVD (intermedium storage), conversion into streaming video formats, including links and picons (picture icons), packaging, and labeling for final product delivery.
Oshki’s E-Learning Coordinator will implement the ADDIE model of instructional design and lead the development of the learning object repository and online courseware using Moodle.
Recently
- Project evaluation
- Learning Object Repository now online
- Post-production work underway
- Oji-Cree and Cree narration sessions August 19-22
- MoodleMoot cancelled
- eDome video production shoot July 2-11
- Project team members to present at MoodleMoot
- Basic Radiological Technician students review prototype learning objects
- eDome video shoot for prototype basic radiography learning object
- Hand script – Cree translation using syllabics
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