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Learning Objects Plagiarism and Academic Integrity This section includes web links on the above subjects to a collection of online teaching tools developed by the Center for Intellectual Property to be used by the wider higher education community. For more teaching resources on these subjects please see VAIL, the Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory.

Learner-centered education places the student at the center of education. It begins with understanding the educational contexts from which a student comes. It continues with the instructor evaluating the student's progress towards learning objectives. By helping the student acquire the basic skills to learn, it ultimately provides a basis for learning throughout life. It therefore places the responsibility for learning on the student, while the instructor assumes responsibility for facilitating the student's education. This approach strives to be individualistic, flexible, competency-based, varied in methodology and not always constrained by time or place.

A prerequisite to the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) when facilitating online instruction is access to a high level of computing power and a reliable telecommunication infrastructure. After saying that, I want to emphasize in the strongest way that when developing and delivering instruction, whether online or not, the use of technology is secondary to well-designed learning goals and objectives. What distinguishes online instruction from entertainment or recreation is the purposefulness of the designers and developers in provoking certain intelligent responses to the learning materials, context, and environment.

The Orange Grove Florida's Digital Repository & Orange Grove Texts Plus are libraries for your to browse/search for learning objects and open textbooks.