In the spirit of Geocaching, Educaching is a curriculum that uses GPS technology to create an innovative learning atmosphere.
Exciting lesson plans, unique ideas, and helpful strategies that incorporate the national teaching standards provide a
road map to make education challenging, rewarding, and fun.
Teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.
The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects."
The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment. At present, 409 WTCS faculty members have authored learning objects.
The Wisc-Online digital library contains 2542 objects that are accessible to all WTCS faculty at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any WTCS classroom or online application. Other colleges, universities, and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world use the library with permission. Current use of the learning object repository exceeds 20,000 hits per day.
Learning objects are designed and developed by a team of instructional designers, editors, technicians, and student interns.