Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Even when we teach with consistent, planned strategies, every student experiences instruction in a different way. When we embrace that diversity of experience among our students and recognize that what works for some may not work for others, doors open: We can plan multiple routes for engagement, representation, and expression, which enables more students to succeed.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an education framework that helps teachers support students across that span of the student experience. I

What is the biggest challenge that educators and trainers in various capacities face today? Undoubtedly, it is dealing with the constantly dropping learner attention spans and engaging them through the learning session. Online learning bears the most brunt of this issue since there is no human touch involved, and you can’t even see the learners’ reaction in-person. So what can you do to address this issue? Well, interactivity could be one of your best bets to ease this problem.

E-tivities are frameworks for enabling active and participative online learning by individuals and groups. E-tivities are important for the online teaching and learning world because they deploy useful, well-rehearsed principles and pedagogies for learning as well as your choice of networked technologies. They focus on the learners- the people I call the participants, who are contributing, providing, reworking, interpreting, combining most of the knowledge. They overturn the idea that learning depends on one big expert and his/her conveying of knowledge. They are based on the strong idea that knowledge is constructed by learners through and with others.