Post on 12-Oct-2020
Learner-Centered Design
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What is LCD?
Teacher-Centered Approach
Provide
content
Set
learning goal
Choose
instructional
tools
Decide
instructional
strategies
Evaluate
achievement
Learner-Centered Approach
✓ Take responsibility for their learning
✓ Gain more control over the learning process
✓ Are involved in creating instructional materials,
learning activities, and generating test questions
✓ Incorporate their skills into learning process
✓ Choose what tasks they will work on
✓ Choose how they will demonstrate mastery
✓ Are involved in evaluation of their own achievement
✓ Receive individualized learning support
What does LCD mean for learners?
Learners
Benefits of LCD
✓ Provide personalized learning experiences
✓ Improve participation and engagement
✓ Improve retention of knowledge
✓ Improve knowledge transfer
✓ Make learning more fun
✓ Build essential skills in the 21st century including:
critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, collaboration,
creativity, communication, accountability
✓ Prepare learners to become lifelong learners
Benefits
Learner Analysis
for LCD
Learner Analysis
Analyze
Tools
What tools are available for content
development and learner
engagement, and assessment?
What are the
overall goals and
specific learning
outcomes? Goal & Objectives
TargetAudience
Who are your learners?
Evaluation & QualityAssurance
How to measure achievement?
How to ensure quality?
Limitation&
Constrains
What are limitation
and constrains?
Have learners with
special needs?
Context &Content
What is the learning context?
What is the learning content?
How do you know
about your learners?
Best Practices & Tools
Pre-Course Survey Self-Introduction
• Readiness
• Characteristics
• Prior knowledge
• Learning styles
• Technology skills
• Learning goals for the course
• Prior experiences
• Learner needs and expectations
• Personal and professional goals
Moodle
Questionnaire
Moodle Discussion forum VoiceThread
Tips
• Assign points for participation
• Provide clear guidelines for self-introduction activity
• Respond to learners’ posts
Aligning for Optimal
Engagement
Objectives
Alignment
Materials
Activities
Assessments
Tools
Support
How do you engage
learners in your course
How much we remember
Research shows that most of us remember:
• 10% of what we read
• 20% of what we hear
• 30% of what we see
• 50% of what we both see and hear
• 70% of what we have discussed with others
• 80% of what we have experienced personally
• 95% of what we teach someone else
Learner-Generated Materials
• Learners research a topic
• Generate content, ideas, and their
understanding combining written
words with visual elements.
Creating
Content
Infographics
Learner-Generated Materials
• Learners research a topic
• Generate content, ideas, and their
understanding combining written word
with visual elements.
• Allow learners to present their
understanding of content using
different tools
Creating
Content
Infographics
Learner-Generated Materials
Create “I Didn’t Know That”
Weekly Discussion Forum
Instruction:
Post something new that you’ve
learned this week, either from other
learners, from the instructional
materials, or from class discussions.
Indicate how you will use the new
information or skills in the real-life.
Creating
Activities
Involve learners in generating test
questions
• Ask learners to prepare 3-5 test
questions and answers of their
own related to the lesson
material.
• Have learners answer the
questions and share the results
with the class.
Creating
Assessments
Tips
• Explain the purpose of content development activities
• Provide clear expectations on the content development
• Show some examples of learner-developed content
• Let learners make choice on choosing content
• Ask learners to add discussion questions
Engaging Activities
• Learners are presented with a
centralized concept
• Learners work individually/group,
synchronous/asynchronously
• The final map is shared with the class
Create
Concept Map
Engaging Activities
Food and Calories
The two concepts are irrevocably linked,
especially in the brains of anyone who has ever
tried to lose/gain weight. Let's do something fun
with our food.
I want you to think about your favorite fast food
meal. Now get on the internet and find the calorie
count for this meal. Make sure you include every
part of the meal that you would usually get: fries,
soda, shake, etc.
Make a post that contains:
1.Your complete favorite meal and the fast food
establishment it comes from
2.The complete calories count associated with it.
3.The website wherein this information was found.
4.What percentage of a recommended 2,000
Calorie-per-day diet your meal represents. [This is
calculated by taking: (your meal's total calories /
2000) x 100]
Then, go back and respond to one other person's
whose meal interests are similar to yours.
Provide
authentic
learning
experiences
Engaging Activities
Reflective exercise
Objective: To get students to read actively in the
textbook and provide an opportunity for them to
explore an area of interest in more depth.
Instructions:
✓ Choose one article from a newspaper, journal, or
other periodical that represents the concepts of
the chapter.
✓ Choose three Web sites (give the URLs) that
provide useful information about the concepts of
the chapter.
✓ Write 3 to 5 paragraphs that describe why you
chose that chapter and the article and the Web
sites to represent that chapter.
✓ Write one question that came to your mind as you
were completing this assignment.
✓ Post your assignment summary and your
question to the discussion board.
✓ The written material must meet the criteria
specified for grammar and spelling and critical
thinking.
Engage
learners in
reflective
learning
Engaging Activities
• What aspect of your work do you think was most effective? Why? How so?
• What aspect of your work do you think was least effective? Why? How so?
• What specific action(s) would improve your performance based on the
feedback you received?
• What advice would you offer to next year’s students to help their
performance on this task?
• What did you learn from working on this task - about the content, topic,
process, and/or yourself?
Some questions to consider for self-reflection:
Engaging Activities
Provide collaborative learning experience
using inquiry-based activities
• Problem-based learning
• Project-based learning
• Case-based learning
Engage
learners in
collaborative
learning
Assessment
• Diversify assessment types
• Allow learners to choose how they will
demonstrate mastery
• Reflective writing
o What did I know before?
o What did I understand?
o What do I still need to
understand?
o How can I improve?
o What steps will I take?
o How can I apply new learning?
Involve
learners in
self-assessment
Assessment
• Prepare assessment criteria with
learners for
o Learning achievement
o Group participation
• Give guideline on providing a
meaningful formative and summative
feedback
Involve
learners in
peer-assessment
Tools
o Peer review and evaluation
o Group / Grouping
o Collaboration
o Communication and reflection
o Concept Map
o Infographics
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