EdTech: Adapting content to your audience
The module looks at the use of technology to tailor content to meet the needs of a range of sensory, linguistic and cultural barriers.
This can lead to better learner retention and outcomes and greatly improved learner engagement and experience.
Aim
The module shows you how digital tools and media allow you easily to adapt your content to meet the needs of many different users and audiences.
Objective
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- Identify and select digital tools and media to tailor content for a wide range of needs and interests
- Lower the barriers to understanding for learners who experience difficulties with communication
Digital Teaching Professional Framework
This module covers the EdTech component - F2 : Equality and diversity
- Address the special needs of individual learners (e.g. dyslexia, ADHD, overachievers) using digital technologies
- Allow for different learning pathways, levels and speeds when designing, selecting and implementing digital learning activities.
- Devise individual learning plans and use digital technologies to support these.
- Adapt communication strategies to the specific audience and be aware of cultural and generational diversity in digital environments
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Feedback about this module
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Make the use of technology for learning as inclusive as possible.
good course
Makes you think and plan your ICT learning objectives and learning plans.
The key issues for me and my colleagues here is finding the most appropriate technology to work with. Adapting your courses and learning resources, can be an incredibly time consuming process.
Good exmples
Not everyone has access to social media platforms.
Very informative with a useful example.
Good
valuable lesson learnt: its important to know the learners and their needs in order to tailor content to cater to those needs.
OK
The value of this model is that it requires participants to reflect on the communication strategies they use across a broad range. It considers email, resource use and adaptation and the use of social media for different types and styles of communication, including appropriate scenarios for the use of each. A clear case study outlines how a more traditional resource can be adapted using Alt text, narrations and rethinking of image use and presentation style to make it accessible for a wide range of learners.
With so many types of content in use, it's tricky to know where to start to adapt. PowerPoint is a good choice but Word and PDFs are very important too.
Might be a struggle for some people and lecturers will need to really think about their students and how they can get them to follow instructions.
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