& E-learning

Nutan Erathi

Instructional Designer

Ph.D Scholar (JNTUH)

s This presentation will enable you to:

Gain an understanding of the need to improve employability skills

Know why corporate trainings are important

Know how e-learning courses use differentiated instruction to suit needs of diverse learners

To address the changing needs of learners, the

one-size fits all concept is not applicable any more.

Different kinds of learner’s have different leaning needs

and this paved way to the beginning of differentiated

instruction

How can educators provide more than one way to give

learners access to information?

Learners need to understand what they do not

know, what they need to know, and why they need to

know it to move forward with mastering a new skill or

content.

Otherwise, why are they wasting their time learning

something that they already know or that will not help

them?

Differentiated instruction, according

to Carol Ann Tomlinson (as cited by

Ellis, Gable, Greg, & Rock, 2008,

p. 32), is the process of “ensuring

that what a student learns, how he or

she learns it, and how the student

demonstrates what he or she has

learned is a match for that student’s

readiness level, interests, and

preferred mode of learning.”

Web based learning programs provides the opportunity to learners to access

the information at their own pace, place and time and gain information

Instructions is designed in way that uses several senses (i.e. sight-

visuals/graphics &images, sound- audio, touch- interactivities) and by creating

measurable learning connections.

The reflective educator analyzes his own lessons to see what worked and

what did not. He makes changes as necessary. When a lesson does not go

well, which will happen to everyone, he learns from it and does not teach the

lesson the same way again.

Setting the stage for learning

•Learner-Friendly Interface

•Setting reasonable goals

•Teaching content

•Building relationships

•Building personal capacity for creative thinking and problem solving

•Using formative assessment regularly

•Keeping learners moving forward

•Praising effort and learning from mistakes

•Considering the implications for summative assessment

•Real time results s

Let us consider an example of using differentiated instruction to train

employees of Dr. Reedy’s Laboratories on Information Security

The purpose to train the employees is to make them aware of safe

guarding company’s

Valuable information and data while carrying out the daily business

activities.

Since learners (here staff employees) belong to

different cultures, socio economic status, language,

gender, motivation, ability, disability, personal interests,

etc, instructors need to develop personalized

instruction to meet these diverse varieties of learners

through careful planning of the course.

By considering these varied learning needs,

personalized instruction was used to meet the

readiness levels, interests and learning profiles. To do

this, a different expectation for task completion for

learners based upon their individual needs had been

set.

Active engagement is also thought to create

deeper understanding because it focuses on

transforming ideas (e.g., from written to visual)

through thinking, doing, and feeling.

Offer ample opportunities for learners to engage with concepts, stretch their

thinking (or tendons), and reach their goals.

The learner had to click on each tab and hence he was constantly kept engaged in

order to get the information desirable to complete the course.

Formative Assessment

free writing

brainstorming

mind-mapping

journal entries

reading responses

questions formulation

conversation prompts/responses

workplace scenarios

role playing

problem solving

Possible Learning Activities

in an Online- scenario

How did learning happen?

Format: Format includes awareness of correct format for the context of the assignment.

Content: Content (as required by the assignment) includes clear thesis or focus, adequate development, good use of details and examples, correct use of illustrations.

Organization: Organization means ideas are presented in logical order in individual sections and in the overall piece of writing.

Style: Style includes word choice and tone.

How did learning happen?

With differentiation, learning happens effectively. Active learning takes place

because of the use of videos, graphics, audio and interactivities, say

about, 90%.

Suggestions for good practice

• Providing learners with explicit information about the organisation is related to integrating language instruction and technology into delivery of training and assessment

Where to from here?

What would you like to do in your section to promote the integration of technology in your delivery?

Future of education is not about

recalling information, but about making,

designing, and creating.

If we continue to proceed with blinders on and

think that standardized tests are nothing more

than a cheap filtering system, we may miss out

on some great innovations and contributions to

our world.

Questions?

References:

https://fs24.formsite.com/edweek/images/spotlig

ht-on-differentiated-instruction.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated_instr

uction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_managem

ent_system