LEARNING SKILLS FOR OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNERS

(OUMH1103)

LESSON PLAN for TUTORIAL 1

About Tutorial Lesson
Plan (for tutors)
Purpose:
For you to guide and facilitate learning
For you to encourage engaged and active learning
For you to create constructivist classroom and guide learners to
construct new knowledge from their past experience
How to Use?
Go through the slides and be prepared
Complete the lesson within the time duration
Connect the lesson with the module & assessment
Encourage learners to participate / discuss & do the activities
Apply scaffolding techniques to increase cognitive level
Always provide feedback / explanation
Never read out the slides as it is without doing the activities
Overview of Tutorial 1
In this tutorial, we will cover the following:

Discussion Topic Duration (minutes)

Introduction to the Course 5
Topic 1: Managing Your Learning 40
Topic 2: myVLE 35
Topic 3: Digital Library 35
Summary 5

PLEASE READ THE TOPICS TO GET YOU PREPARED FOR THE LESSON
Introduction to the
Course

(5 minutes)
General Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

1. Describe OUMs learning environment and manage your learning

2. Identify the main components of a personal computer and the Internet

3. Utilise the tools available under OUMs Learning Management System

(myVLE)

4. Apply the appropriate reading techniques in pursuing your studies

5. Gather, retrieve, evaluate, organise and present ideas and

information in oral and written forms in your learning process
6. Use of Microsoft Office applications in your studies
Assessment Information
Type of (%) Structure Details
Assignment
Part A 20 Quiz 1 (8 marks) MCQ type of questions
Quiz 2 (6 marks) Read the module and work on
Quiz 3 (6 marks) the activities under:
Lesson Plan for Tutorial 1
Lesson Plan for Tutorial 2
Lesson Plan for Tutorial 3
Part B 30 Activity 1 (15 marks) For each Activity:
Activity 2 (15 marks) Forum Discussion
Pre-quiz (Drag & drop)
Post-quiz (Short answer
questions)
Part C 50 1 Essay (50 marks) 500-750 words (2 to 3 pages
only)
Submit MS Word document file
via online
Assignment

Refer to the assignment

question(s) for the semester
in the myInspire.
 TOPIC 1
Managing Your Learning

Discussions
(40 minutes)
Discussion Focus for
Topic 1
Blended learning methodologies at
OUM;
Strategies for managing stress;
Motivational strategies for
successful learning;
Time management;
Concentration strategies
 Blended learning
methodologies at OUM

What are your learning methods

that you think will be suitable
under each Blended Learning
approach?
Provide reasons.
Lets share in the group.
(10 minutes)
Section 1.1.1, Figure 1.1
Pages 2-3
 Strategies for managing
stress
You have been juggling with job and your studies
while taking care of family matters. Now, you are
feeling tired and very stressed.

How will you manage your stress so that

you can cope with your life and studies at
OUM?
Lets share in the group.
(10 minutes)

Section 1.2.1 Pages 7-12

Motivational Strategies for
Successful Learning

You are feeling down due to your recent

assessment results and thinking of giving up
your studies.

What strategies will help you to be

motivated again to continue with your
studies?
Lets share in the group.
(5 minutes)
Section 1.2.3 Pages 15-
17
 Time management

You are overwhelmed with your job workload

and too many assignments and all these are due
during the same time.
How will you manage your time effectively so
that you can complete your work and the
assignments by the deadlines?

Lets share in the group.

(10 minutes)
Section 1.2.4 Pages 18-
21
Concentration strategies

Whenever you study, your family wants your

attention or someone/something is making
noise. As such, you are unable to concentrate
in your studies.
How will you overcome such situation and
improve your concentration?

Share your strategies in the group.

(5 minutes)
Section 1.2.5 Pages 21-
24
 TOPIC 2
My Virtual Learning
Environment (MyVLE)

Discussions
(35 minutes)
Discussion Focus for
Topic 2

Microsoft Internet Explorer;

Functions in myVLE;
Collaborative discussions with your tutors
and peers.
 Microsoft Internet Explorer

Lets explore Microsoft Internet

Explorer
Look out for:
Navigation Bar
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Can you create Favourite?
Can you search in the Internet?

(10 minutes)
Section 2.2.3 2.2.5,
Pages 42-53
 Functions in myInspire

Lets go through:
Course module
WATCH VIDEO on
Video myInspire!
Forum
Search course
How each of these tools will be useful for your
learning?
Share it in the group.
(15 minutes)

Section 2.3(c), Pages 70-71

Collaborative discussions
with your tutors and peers
Tina needs clarification on some facts in the
module. She needs it urgently before the next
tutorial.
What should Tina do?
How can her course mates create collaborative
learning environment?
Share your ideas in the group.
(10 minutes)

Section 2.3(c), Pages 70-71

 TOPIC 3
Digital Library

Discussions
(30 minutes)
Discussion Focus for
Topic 3

Information Trail to search for information;

Searching for a print-based book;
Searching for digital book;
Searching for an e-journal; and
Searching in the Internet
Information Trail to search for
information

Refer to the Information Trail in Figure

3.2.
How will you search for information
to:
complete an essay assignment?
get more information on the course
content?
Lets discuss in groups.
(10 minutes)

Section 3.3, Pages 86-87

Searching for a print-based
book
Assignment Title: How to Manage
Stress?
Search: Library > OPAC
Keyword Search: manage stress

Did you find?

Book title: 50 Ways to Prevent and Manage Stress (by M. Sara
Book title: ....................................................................................
Rosenthal)
Call No:
Call No: BF575 S75Ros
Is it available for you to pick from the library shelf?
Is it available for you to pick from the library shelf? Yes / No

(10 minutes)
Hands-on skills
Section 3.5.2 - 3.6 ,
Pages 89-102
Searching for an e-book
Assignment Title: How to Manage
Stress?
Search: Database > Ebrary
Keyword Search:
Did you find?
Book title: Stress
....................................................................................
Management for Teachers (by Hartney, Elizabeth)

Can you access/read it online? Yes

/ No

(5 minutes)
Hands-on skills
Section 3.7.1 - 3.7.3,
Pages 103-114
Searching for an e-journal
Assignment Title: How to Manage Stress?
Search: Database > EbscoHost
Keyword Search: manage stress

Did you find?

Journal title: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach & Studies.
Nov/Dec2015,
Journal title: Vol. 2 Issue 6, p60-67. 8p.
Article title: Management of Stress and Coping Strategies (by Sridevi, B.;
Maheswar, V. )
Can you access/read it online?
Can you access/read it online? Yes / No

(5 minutes)
Section 3.8, Pages 115-120
Hands-on skills
Searching in the Internet
Assignment Title: How to Manage Stress?
Search: Google
Keyword Search: manage stress

Did you find?

Website: http://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-management.htm.
Website:
Article title: Stress Management (by Lawrence Robinson, Melinda Smith,
Article title:
M.A., and Robert Segal, M.A. Last )
Can you access/read it online?
Can you access/read it online? Yes / No

(5 minutes)
Section 3.9, Pages 120-128
Hands-on skills
Summary

(5 minutes)
Summary
Managing
myVLE/myInspire Digital Library
Yourself

OUMs learning Microsoft Internet

Information Trail
environment Explorer

Coping with Functions in Searching for

learning myVLE/myInspire print-based book

Collaborative
Searching for e-book
learning

Searching for e-journal

Searching in the
Internet
(5 minutes)