1. How will your interactive learning resource specifically ensure that the needs of all learners can be met?

In my interactive learning resource, I made inclusive learning design to English language learner (ELL), and single parent who is working full-time and has 2 kids in elementary school.

  • For English language learner (ELL):

In this interactive learning resource, all the tutorials and the materials are in English. The English used in the tutorials and materials are all basic English words and will not involve very difficult vocabulary. Also, the English grammar involved in this interactive learning resource is very basic, and there will be no difficult sentence patterns. Therefore, this interactive learning resource is perfectly suitable for students who are English language learners.

  • For single parent who is working full-time and has 2 kids in elementary school:

This interactive learning resource only takes 2 hours for learners to learn. So, it will not take too much time to study. Learners can complete all the studies with a little leisure time. There does not have participation weight in the grading rubric, it considered people who only have a very short time during a week.

2. How can you adjust your planned learning activities to meet the needs of your learners if an unexpected event occurs? (for example, a pandemic arises and many of your employees must now work from home – how will you ensure that they can still do their jobs? What training will they need, and how will you deliver it, knowing they must remain at home?) This is a common discussion thread right now as many schools and universities have made the switch to teaching online.

During a pandemic arises, I will change the study plan to online, to make sure that they can work from home. There are many schools and universities have made the swithch to teaching online. So, it prove make the switch to teaching online is the effective way and best way for students to study from home. However, teaching online also has many things need attention. Firstly, instructors need professional training for teaching online before online teaching. They need to transfer their study materials to online, and learning how to use apps teach online. Also, instructors need to teach their students to use apps to study. It is very important to skilled use of online teaching software will improve the efficiency of students’ learning. Secondly, online meeting requires screen recording. For various reasons, many international students may have returned to their own country. Different time zone may makes them cannot attend the online meeting. If the students miss the meeting, they may hard to keep up the study progress. If students can watch the screen recording videos in their own time, they will study more effectively. However, screen recording can help students study more effectively, no just in different time zones. Students also can watch the screen recording to review their online meeting to deepen the impressions. Lastly, reduce the proportion of mid-term and final exams in the total score. After swithch to teaching online, it is difficult for instructors to monitor plagiarism during exams. Therefore, the mid-term and final exams can be open-book, but reduce the proportion of exams in the total score. Also, instructors can add quizzes and practises to help students learn better. Quizzes and practises are proportion more in the total score. However, there needs to be sufficient communication between the instructors and the students, so that the difficulties encountered in online learning can be solved.

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References:

Inclusive Learning Design. (2021, May 5). University of Victoria Educational Technology. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci335/inclusive-learning-design/

Universal Design. (2021, May 5). University of Victoria Educational Technology. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci335/universal-design/