Enabling EdTech. Empowering Education.
Enabling EdTech. Empowering Education.
E-Learning Course
Created in Rise360
Supplemental Content created with Google Docs & Canva
Student-Led Self-Paced course model
Asynchronous and Location & Device Agnostic
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Digitally enhanced courses like this one, allow students to consume and appropriate information in their own time, providing learners the opportunity to take breaks, recharge, review, and digest content more thoroughly than through tradition lecture formats alone.
In addition to some obvious advantages, other subtle benefits include reduced anxiety, greater control over learner progression, and increased flexibility and inclusion for learners of all backgrounds, academic capabilities, and modality preferences.
Self-paced learning allows students to progress at a speed that suits their individual needs and abilities. Each student can spend more time on challenging concepts or move quickly through familiar material, promoting personalized instruction.
Students have diverse learning styles and abilities. With self-paced learning, educators can provide a range of materials, resources, and activities (like those provided in this course or those that educators create or already have created) to cater to different learning preferences. It enables students to engage with content in ways that align with their strengths and interests.
When students have the flexibility to work at their own pace, they can spend more time mastering difficult topics or skills before moving forward. This can lead to a deeper understanding and better retention of the subject matter.
Self-paced learning often involves interactive and multimedia resources (like those featured in this course) that can make the learning process more engaging for students. They can explore various formats, such as videos, simulations, games, or interactive exercises, which can enhance their motivation and interest in the progressing through and appropriating the content.
Self-paced learning fosters learner autonomy and self-regulation. It encourages students to take ownership of their learning, make decisions about their progress, and manage their time effectively. These skills are valuable for lifelong learning and personal development.
In a traditional classroom setting, some students may feel rushed or overwhelmed by the pace set by the teacher or peers. Self-paced learning reduces the pressure associated with keeping up with others and can alleviate anxiety, creating a more relaxed and conducive learning environment.
Self-paced learning often takes advantage of digital platforms and resources, allowing students to access learning materials anytime and anywhere. In the case of Rise, learners are also able to bookmark certain components of a course and the platform retains their location in the course so that, upon logging back in, students begin where they left off. This flexibility enables students to learn at their convenience and accommodates different schedules and learning environments.
*In this version of the course, because it has been downloaded and integrated into this website, the course will not retain a learner’s place in the course. This is a limitation of importing material into a website and not a bug or glitch on the part of Rise.
Using platforms like Rise, content and course creators can determine what level of proficiency a learner must achieve (via embedded knowledge checks and quizzes) in order to progress to the next lesson or module. This ensures that learners have a solid foundation in each concept and helps to prevent knowledge gaps.
Digital self-paced learning platforms, such as Rise, are often capable of collecting, aggregating, and analyzing (with differing levels of detail) data on students’ progress and performance. Educators can utilize this data to gain insights into individual learners’ strengths and weaknesses, identify areas that require additional support, and adapt their instruction accordingly.
According to a World Economic Forum Report published in 2016, “in many industries and countries, the most in-demand occupations or specialties did not exist 10 or even 5 years ago, and the pace of change is set to accelerate.”
Knowing that, educators and learning institutions must expose students to real-world applications early and often. The greater the exposure to modern applications, the greater the adaptability and flexibility of learners’ as they begin to use emerging technologies and applications that have yet to be created.
Digitally enhanced courses, such as this one, provide educators, course creators, and content writers a variety of opportunities to embed useful resources for learners. Within the Rise platform, instructional designers can include video, audio, images, PDFs, interactive scenarios, hot spot activities, and much more.
Even more critically, learners have the opportunity to utilize whichever resources are most impactful for them, eliminating the traditional method of passing out every material to each student. This level of discernment increases learner engagement, autonomy, and promotes individualized learning as students can interact with different pieces of content at greater frequencies to deepen their understanding.
Courses created in platforms like Rise give educators and instructional designers increased flexibility when it comes to assessing learner mastery. Educators can include links to formal assessments, incorporate writing assignments, and even have the platform provide knowledge checks and quizzes that can be reported on in the educator dashboard.
As an added layer of flexibility, educators can embed these asynchronous online learning courses into their Learning Management System by simply downloading the course in the appropriate output file. While platforms differ on their capabilities, Rise specifically allows courses to be exported in SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, xAPI, and cmi5 formats and also allows for direct-to-web or PDF download.
