Enriching learning

The use of learning objects can enhance the learning environment for students in these ways:

• Present content in a new and interesting way
• Promote learning as a dynamic activity with many paths and options
• Engage the senses of the learner, as well as the mind
• Address learners' varied learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic as well as intellectual and interpersonal)
• Provide new ways to interact with instructors and other class members
• Provide new ways to understand, integrate and apply complex concepts
• Promote the expectation that learners will use technology for lifelong, independent learning
• Promote the importance of context to meaning
• Promote self-paced learning with a self-assessment component
• Promote a new approach to active learning, critical thinking and development of professional judgment through discussion, self-directed exploration, independent reflection, self discovery, relating new information to past experience/learning, and application of new knowledge to professional practice

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This project is sponsored in part by The Fund for The Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education.

This project is made possible by support from the UW - Madison School Of Nursing