• All About the Learner

    Everybody it’s time to put on your “Student Hat”. As a learner on this course you’ve been keeping a journal of your experiences interacting and engaging in the online environment. Let’s focus on what all this online stuff means for students.

    • Primary Objectives:

      • To become aware of the requirements of learners participating in the online environment.
      • To become aware of and discuss the ‘effects’ on students of learning in the online environment.

    • Key Content:

    • A) Potential online students checklist

      Credit: University of Illinois

      Click the link below to fill in a short checklist to see if you have the potential to be a successful online learner... (about 5mins)

      Actually the point of it is NOT to judge your abilities to study online but to have a look at some of the characteristics of students that are important for studying in the online environment. Use this to inform your answers to the Key Task below.
    • Potential Online Student Checkist URL

    • Key Task:

    • 1) Student needs discussion

      After looking through the Key Content and trying out the Potential Online Student Checklist, click on the activity below to contribute to the discussion for this topic. This activity has several requirements so please read the instructions carefully and allow a good portion of your weekly hours to complete it (approx. 1hr)

    • Student Needs Discussion Forum
      Students must
      Post replies: 4

    • Remember, everything below here is optional, but you need to complete at least three of these activities across the module to pass Assessment 1.

    • Cool Tool:

    • Create interactive activites with H5P.org Page

      This tool makes it easy to create fun, interactive and visually appealing activities that can be added into Moodle, a blog or any other web page. And it can be viewed on any device!

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      You can sign up to the website or use the 'Interactive content' activity as a teacher in Moodle to create them directly in Moodle!

    • Secondary Objectives:

    • Have a look at the below resources describing generational learners. Then contribute to the Padlet Wall below to voice your opinions about the different characteristics in relation to student needs in eLearning.

    • a) Generational learners resources

    • The 5 Rs of Enganing Millenial Students URL
    • The ABCs of Gen Z URL
    • Characteristics of Gen Z URL
    • Gen Z Infographic URL

    • b) Share your generational learners ideas

    • Padlet Wall - Generational Learners URL
      Students must
      Mark as done

      If the Padlet wall doesn't display below try viewing it in another browser or clicking on the link above this.