Online Learning Community - OpenLearning

To equip the individual with the skills required to engage with the learning process.

online learning community was created because of the need for 21st learning techniques to cater for the ever-increasing diversity of learning styles. online learning community uses Universal Instructional Design principles to provide a range of learning techniques that cater for this diversity. It is our vision to provide a learning experience for everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, religion, academic ability, giftedness or education background. No one is excluded from accessing learning with online learning community.




Educators

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a variety of training and assessment methods to remove barriers to student learning. The focus in not on the barriers themselves, but instead the focus is providing a variety of training and assessment methods, so that a student avoids the barrier preventing learning. A good example of a barrier is if a student cannot travel to attend face-to-face lectures. By providing lectures online, this removes a barrier because the student does not need to attend the face-to-face lecture to engage in the learning process. Traditionally, students attend a physical location, at a set time to listen to a lecture to learn new knowledge. Each student applies this newly learnt information by completing a learning activity. The learning activity is then assessed by an expert to record the level of understanding obtained by each student. Flipped learning ‘flips’ this traditional model. Student’s listen to the lecture online at a time and location of their choosing to learn new knowledge. Students come together in either in a virtual or physical classroom to complete activities, so they can demonstrate their newly learnt knowledge. The lecturer is no longer the disseminator of information―because this has already happened―instead the lecturer becomes a facilitator. A facilitator helps and supports the students as each attempt to complete the learning activities. Time is used to support student understand the learning activity instead of delivery of content.

Paul willliams

Hello everyone, I'm a teacher and I can't wait to learn with all of you.

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