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This micro-lecture focuses on tips for designing and adapting materials for online and blended learning, emphasizing the importance of effective design principles. Educators are encouraged to utilize their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) effectively, incorporate narratives for context, and ensure accessibility and inclusivity in their materials. The lecture also highlights the value of seeking feedback and adapting existing materials rather than starting from scratch.

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Week 5 ML1 Transcript

This micro-lecture focuses on tips for designing and adapting materials for online and blended learning, emphasizing the importance of effective design principles. Educators are encouraged to utilize their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) effectively, incorporate narratives for context, and ensure accessibility and inclusivity in their materials. The lecture also highlights the value of seeking feedback and adapting existing materials rather than starting from scratch.

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EDU-40206: Online and Blended Learning Design

Week 5: Micro-lecture – Designing & Adapting Materials

Welcome to week 5, micro-lecture, designing and adapting materials. This micro lecture is
going to be a short one just offering some top tips to consider when designing or adapting
materials for online and blended learning. So, during the pandemic we saw the shift to
online and that led to a rushed transfer of materials to this format. Since then, obviously
we've discovered that there are sets of principles for effective design for these modalities so
we now need to be able to go back and adapt and reflect and consider whether we
incorporated those best practices. So this is an important skill as an educator and it's
something that you do every day without even thinking about it. What I want you to think
about is how is designing from scratch different to adapting materials? Should your
approach be different when designing versus adapting and why and how would you
approach to design and adapt materials?

Just some top tips for you. Make use of your VLE for features and tools and technologies.
Don't just use it as a place to store your PowerPoint slide or your Word document. Consider
putting text onto the pages so the students don't have to leave the VLE. Try and embed
tools and technologies within to the VLE so the students don't have to leave. Consider that
kind of wider student experience in what they are viewing and try and make best use of
what is available to you. When designing for things like online and blended it's really
important to have a narrative running through it in a live lecture or in person teaching
session you would be explaining the context as to why you're doing things. Whereas if a
student is online or is completing an asynchronous blended activity they were missing out
on that context and it's really important to put it into the wider picture. So write detailed
narratives running through everything that you're asking them to do. Try completing the
activity yourself using the instructions you've created or even better get someone else to try
it and then give you some feedback. That way you can see if you've been detailed enough, if
you haven't been detailed enough or if you need to tweak instructions. This is an activity
that a lot of educators do with their students when writing up instructions for things. For
example, there is the Jam sandwich where you get students to write instructions for a Jam
sandwich and then follow them literally and quite often it can lead to quite hilarious results.
So be the student in that scenario when you're writing your instructions think can someone
take this out of context, do I need to be more specific and quite often the answer is yes. If
you're not sure on how to do something seek advice from others don't just not do it. Quite
often things that are done in person face to face can easily be done online through the use
of tools and technologies which we'll talk about later on in in the module. So, seek advice
from others, don't just assume that it can't be done. Always have in the back of your mind
are my materials accessible and inclusive, can everybody access what I am delivering. So for
example in these micro lectures if somebody was visually impaired for example they
wouldn't be able to see my slides so I have read information off my slides so they can still
get the same experience. So just little things that are going to make a big difference when
designing and adapting materials and you don't have to reinvent the wheel. If you already
have materials from when you've delivered it live and in person then just take those and

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adapt them slightly consider what it is you want the student to be doing so you can write
those instructions and then add that narrative running throughout it.

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