Inclusive design within learning is essential to courses success. It is our job as directors to ensure the inclusion of all varieties of students along with their specific, individualized needs. Our interactive learning design for parallelism in the english languages has students who are colour blind and who are unable to have constant access to internet are the two main focuses of our group. Our interactive design does not use any colour differentiation to ensure the students who are colour blind can still understand. We utilize many platforms such as this website to utilize blogs and conversation within blogs. We believe this conversation and inclusion of the entire class will help the class encourage each other throughout the learning process. The videos we have chosen are available any time and can be accessed where ever. By having all of the tools online and saving lectures to the website, the students do not have to carve out time in the middle of their day to ensure they stay up-to-date with the course. The idea of having everything online and at your own pace allows for students within a pandemic for example to continue their learning stress-free.
Choose one (or more) of your planned learning activities from your Blueprint and identify any barriers for student success. How can you alter or adjust your current plan to reduce those barriers?
One of our assignments is to watch a khan academy video of parallelism structure and do the quiz included within the video. Then the students are to complete a blog post stating what they learning. Students are encouraged to reply to other student’s blog posts as this is apart of their grades. I think one of the only ways this video and blog assignment could be a barrier is if the students do not have time to watch the video or if they do not have any access to internet. If this were to be the case then the course would not be accessible.
Consider the learning environment for your current design. What potential barriers can be reduced or eliminated to provide more pathways for learner success?
Some of the barriers in the learning environment would be a lack of community which we hope to have created with the blog responses and the conversational element of learning. I hope with the singular destination of conversation will make communication between us (the instructors) and the students more fluid.
Our learning design has been created to allow for easy accessibility and can be done on the students schedule rather than tuning into a zoom meeting at scheduled times. This allows for working students or those with daily lives to succeed in the course.