Case Study

Recently, i had found a Articulate blog called World of Mouth. It is talk about web-publishing, software support experience and also information about e-learning. One of the post is talk about a professor from Miami University, Ohio - Middletown campus. The main subject she teach is physics courses. She holds an undergraduate degree in physics and a master degree in education.She tend to change the way of learning physics.Miami University was invited her and the Center Online Learning (CoOL) to assist the distance learning courses of school of nursing.

The nursing school needed to build up activities immidiately for associate the degree nursing student who were searching for bachelor's degree in nursing. In this situation, most of the nurses are working , and their working time sometimes is different with others. So, attending a normal lecturer class tend to be a problem for them. The evaluation team, led by Hurn, has recommended Articuate Rapid E-learning Studio as the technology to assist creating the online courses.

Says Hurn:
“Our lectures were PowerPoint-based, so Articulate Presenter was a natural fit. The fact that our instructors and course authors could work within PowerPoint and easily enhance the courses for online learning was exciting in and of itself. But when we realized we could easily create and add engaging quizzes with Quizmaker and impressive interactions with Engage, Articulate Studio Pro became a no-brainer.”

She now holds class two days a week and creates and e-learning course that students review over the weekend. The Monday class begins with a quiz. Students can use notes they took from the online course and answer questions via a real-time response clicker. Based on instant results, Hurn is able to customize her Monday review session based on areas that need additional attention.

Following is Articulate-powered presentation about Hurn’s favorite features of Studio-09:

You can view this link according to following link:

http://www.articulate.com/blog/demos/Miami-University/player.html

The results have been excited. Hurn has observed the following:
-She can able to deliver a lecture in a 15-minute e-learning course instead of took one hour in a classroom lecturer who need to waste one hour.

-The Articulate-authored courses provide for easy navigation and allow students to repeat sections or even skip sections altogether. This allows students to learn at their own pace.
Class time can be used for more lab-oriented or collaborative activities.

-Some lab demonstrations are difficult to reproduce. She purchased a Flip Video recorder and records her lab demonstrations. Then, using the Articulate Video Encoder ‘09, she converts those videos to a Flash Video (FLV). Now she’s able to introduce the labs whenever she wants into the Articulate courses and quizzes.

-Using LectureScribe (a free software product developed by Brian C. Dean, Clemson University) and her tablet PC or Wacom tablet, she’s able to work through equation examples and easily insert them into Articulate courses. Some students will need to go through this once, but others may need to go through it multiple times to understand it.

-Student satisfaction and performance have improved: 88% of students agreed that the presentations were helping their learning.

What’s next for Hurn?
“I continue to challenge myself to improve my teaching approaches,” Hurn says. “I really want to improve the quality of my e-learning courses, and I’ve become a real fan of the Rapid E-Learning Blog.”
Her success has motivated others at Miami University to follow her lead. A mandatory safety training course was created in Articulate by colleague Andrea Han so that all staff could review it.
The university is now looking to hire a full-time director of online education. Is Hurn interested in applying for that position?
Says Hurn:
“I’m an educator at heart. So I’m not going to apply for that position. But, I’ll continue to explore ways to make physics easy to learn and work with other interested faculty. And, I’m certain that e-learning and Articulate software will continue to play a key role in that ongoing journey.”

After this article, i had found that e-learning is really helpful for nursing programs. This brings a lot of convenient to the students and absolutely for the lecturer. Although there is not face-to-face interaction, but the student and lecturer also can discuss their problem via many social network features. I believe that people will change their opinion about e-learning. please kindly leave a comment , thx :)

Reference:
The word of big mouth, The articulate blog, e-learning,Web publishing and software support experience [Online] Retrieve by 21th February 2009
URL: http://www.articulate.com/blog/