OIG Project Portfolio
The projects highlighted here provide a look at the range of design and delivery options available through OIG, and a sense of the technologies we use to meet specific teaching and learning needs.
There is no single standard for designing and delivering effective online learning content. We analyze the specific requirements of each project to determine the mix of technologies and design elements that best achieves the learning goals as well as meeting budgetary, timeline, and maintenance and support constraints.
Some of the samples incorporate audio, so you'll want to have your computer speakers or headphones turned on. You’ll need a current version of the Flash Player for some project examples (version 8 or higher), and some of the web sites require that Javascript is enabled on your web browser.
Credits
Thanks to our clients who have generously allowed us to use excerpts from their projects:
- Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation
- National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants
Animation and Software Simulation
Adobe Flash
Flash is the standard for creating animations and rich user experiences for online viewing. We use it for projects that require more interaction and visual richness than regular web sites allow.
View a sample Flash interaction Your browser must have a recent version of the Flash Player plugin and your computer speakers or headphones should active.
Adobe Captivate
Captivate makes movies out of whatever you're doing on your computer screen, but it's much more than a screen capture utility. Captivate is a teaching tool that can create complete software trainings and demonstrations that incorporate logic branching and progress evaluation.
View a sample Captivate project
Synchronous Online Learning Tools
Adobe Connect Pro
Connect Meeting spaces are online classrooms that allow teachers and students to interact in real time while they share audio, webcam images, chat sessions, PowerPoint slides, Adobe Presenter presentations, Flash animations and video, and more.
Meeting hosts can share their screen, overlay digital whiteboards, and prepare quiz and survey questions on-the-fly. Sessions can be recorded for later viewing. Connect is built on Flash multimedia technology, which is installed on more than 98% of computers, so no special software is required to attend Connect Meetings.
View a recorded Connect Meeting This is an archive of a classroom session about Avian Influenza from the course "Methods in Field Epidemiology". It utilizes multiple meeting layouts, real-time quizzes, PowerPoint slides, and a moderated discussion session. The session is rather long, but you can navigate to different sections of the meeting by using the sidebar index. After the recording begins you can open the index by clicking its icon:
The meeting creates a clickable index entry every time something changes during the meeting.
Custom Application Development
Based on our experience working with distance education instructors and providing support for BlackBoard, we created two applications that add functionality to BlackBoard-based courses. These tools can be used apart from Blackboard as well.
Peer Evaluation Tool
The Peer Evaluation Tool allows instructors to designate a set of multiple choice questions (typically using a Likert response set), with optional comments.
Students access the tool via a web link. Instructors access the data through a web link and password, and can view the data online or download it to Excel. Once students have completed their evaluations, the instructor can download the data and clear it out of the tool for use multiple times in a semester. Instructors can also receive evaluation data via email.
Case Study Tools
The Case Study Tool was developed in response to a request from an instructor who needed a way to have students turn in work in a Microsoft Word document and get immediate model response feedback, also in Word format. We created an online form that allowed students to upload Word documents which are automatically emailed to the instructor for grading. After succesfully using the tool to upload their work, students can immediately view and download the model responses. The tool is acessed as a link from within a Blackboard course, and can be used for a number of different case studies within a single course.
The initial part of the tool is a Word document template that the student downloads from within Blackboard. They enter their answers in the Word document and save it with a specific filename. A link in Blackboard allows them to turn in their responses to a particular case study.
First, they identify themselves by inputting their Onyen and PID. Then, they upload their word document. If the word document is named incorrectly or has any other issue, the tool will instruct them on how to correct the issue. If there are multiple TAs collecting case study submissions, the student will be asked to select their assigned TA.
On successful submission, the student will be presented with a model answers Word document. The student's document is saved and emailed to either the assigned TA or instructor, as both an attachment and a link to a version saved in a database.
View the Case Study Tool This links lets you enter the Case Study Tool as if you were a student turning in a case study. To go through the Case Study Tool demo, open this Word document and enter some text into it. Then save it to your computer with the name "m1_example_1_Joe_Demo.doc". You will use this document to upload to the case study tool. When you have done this, click the link below and put "onyen1" into the login field.
Variations
This tool is also available as a Multi-part Case Study Tool, in which a student completes each part in order to get necessary information to continue to teh next part, and as a Group Case Study Tool, which allows a single student to complete a case sutdy for his/her group and for all group members to access the model answer data.
Online Training Examples
A New Leaf
This is an online guide to the A New Leaf intervention training, a print-based manual. Except for a video clip and a couple of audio files, the training is entirely web-based. Because it was designed to be used in a self-paced manner in conjunction with printed training materials, it utilizes text-based commentary instead of a recorded narration. This will also simplify making changes to the web site when the intervention itself is updated.
View an excerpt from the training
NAPSACC
This training was designed for those interested in adopting the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment in Child Care (NAP SACC) intervention in their community. The training was developed in Flash and includes audio narration. Although this module is designed as a narrated slide presentation, it was developed in Flash instead of PowerPoint to allow greater design flexibility.
View an excerpt from the training
Healthy Smiles Through Child Care Health Consultation
The Healthy Smiles curriculum is to promote behaviors in the child care setting that support the oral health of children. This training is intended to be viewed by child care health consultants (CCHCs) who will then assist child care facilities in improving their oral health practices and policies. It was developed in Flash with embedded HTML text, and includes pre- and post-training evaluations, but no audio.
View the Healthy Smiles training
Web Sites
North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training Web Site
The North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Training web site is a self-registration training site that provides a large selection of trainings on public health preparedness topics such as disease surveillance, basic epidemiology, bioterrorism and new/emerging disease agents.
Visit the Public Health Preparedness Training site.
Distance Education at UNC-Chapel Hil
Distance Education at UNC-Chapel Hill is a resource and information web site for DE tools.
Visit the Distance Education site
North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center
The North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center provides information, resources, and referrals to the child health and child care communities in North Carolina.
Visit the Health and Safety Resource Center
Public Health Nutrition for the 21st Century
The Public Health Nutrition for the 21st Century is a self-registration training website that provides an introduction to the meaning, scope, and applications of nutrition to public health practice, placing particular emphasis on addressing Healthy People 2010 objectives relevant to MCH and nutrition.
Visit Public Health Nutrition for the 21st Century
Epidemiology Online
The Epidemiology Online website provides a source for epidemiologic-related educational materials including a quarterly epidemiology newsletter for Continuing Education certificate credit.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Webcasts
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Webcasts provides access to all video webcasts sponsored by the school.