Creating and delivering online lessons and assessments can be rewarding and highly effective, and learners can gain high quality outcomes from completing them. Achieving these outcomes requires trainers and assessors to be able to support learners and learner progression through the online learning with a high quality Learning Management System (LMS).
When learners enter the online learning environment, such as within the LMS your organisation uses, the system and online learning should be designed so that the learner immediately knows where to go to start their lessons and assessments. As they progress through the online content, learners should then easily be able to see where they’re at in terms of their progression. And, the content should be structured so that learners aren’t overwhelmed with information and stay engaged throughout the learning.
This is where Learning Plans can become your favourite go-to feature for online learning and assessment.
Learning Plans allow trainers and assessors to create, schedule, order and present online learning content in modules that guide the learner step-by-step through the learning. Essentially, all trainers need to do to create effective online learning with Learning Plans is:
Author your content
Build your Learning Plan
Control the flow of your students' learning.
We know that online learning and assessment should be interactive, engaging and designed with the learners’ competency and growth in mind. However, one of the biggest challenges in online assessment is learner progression. In order for learners to keep progressing through their online learning with ease, confidence and interest, they need to be consistently engaged with the learning content and assessment.
When authoring your lessons and assessments, interactive question types can help with creating content that supports immersion and engagement. But when it comes to supporting learner progression, the next step is to use a Learning Plan.
Learner progression is key for ensuring learners complete assessments and become competent with job-ready outcomes, which is why Learning Plans can be so useful. Trainers can set up rules, dependencies and prerequisites for learning and assessment throughout learning modules, creating a combination of self-driven and schedule-based progression. Learning Plans really complement the entire learning journey through a course while providing well-structured and engaging resources that cater to a range of learning styles.
The flexibility of Learning Plans in allowing learners to learn through both schedule-based and self-driven progression means that learners are more likely to remain confident during their time spent learning, studying and undertaking assessment. The assessment can then in itself become a confirmation tool that creates a deepening of the learners’ knowledge and skills, which further supports learner confidence through the assessment process.
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