Technical Support
This pages provides basic technical support for our learning objects. If you are having difficulty in getting the learning object to load or play please see the following common errors on how to fix the problem. If you are still having difficulties after checking the below sections please feel free to contact us.
- Bandwidth Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Screen/Viewing Resolution
- Sound Optimisation
- Linking and Uploading
- Mobile Device Usage
- Accessibility Compliance
- Learning Pedagogy
Bandwidth Requirements
You must have a high speed connection to play the learning objects availaible from this project*. These objects are intentially designed as multimedia objects which utilize text, image, audio, animation and video so as to harness the full value of a rich and diverse learning experience.
*average loading time on a 1mb broadband connection is 45 seconds.
Software Requirements
Browser Requirements:
- If you are having difficulties with Active...
Software Requirements:
- The Latest Version of Flash is availaible here.
Screen Resolution
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- For instructions on how to set your screen to its optimal visual settings please see these html based instructions here.
Sound
We recommend the following way to set up your audio for listening to our learning objects.
- Plug earphones into one of your 'green' earphone plugs on your computer
Linking to and uploading objects for offline use
We encourage the free downloading and sharing of these objects with any and all learners. They are availaible for download in the following ways:
- Right mouse click > 'download source' > [save to desktop]
- email us and we'll send a reply email with the learning object attached as a .zip file
mobile device usage
We are in our initial test phases for making learning objects availaible through mobile media. We are initially testing for PDA devices with Windows Mobile 5.0 delivered over a WiFi network. Please feel free to contact us if you would like to be a part of additional usability studies.
Accessibility compliance
We test our learning objects according to the following standards:
- 508 disability compliance
- SCORM 2004 Content Packaging
- UK LOM Core Metadata
Learning pedagogy
Learning design, concpet and ideas are inspired from the following sites:
- www.sconul.ac.uk

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