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Statement of the learning gap (Applies to Digital content 1-4):
Statement of the learning gap (Applies to Digital content 1-4):
A learning experience targeting young people of Arabic origins being raised in an English speaking environment. The MOOC will help English speakers of Arabic origins get in touch with their original language in a friendly, informative and age appropriate manner.
Target audience 12-20 yrs old.
The course is an attempt to re-attach these young individuals to their origins and restore their pride in their Arabic language and culture. Rather than being a traditional language course, its main goal is encouraging the young learners to go ahead and become curious to explore the beauty and authenticity of their culture and language.
The objective of the introduction is to make these individuals who usually suffer from deculturation, confusion and sometimes exclusion to know that they are not alone and that there are thousands of people living their experience and that it’s ok and positive.
Description of an instructional strategy (Applies to Digital content 1-4):
Description of an instructional strategy (Applies to Digital content 1-4):
The designer needs to be smart when it comes to selecting the used learning modules. The age-group of the target audience is very specific and challenging. If they are not engaged from the very first beginning, they will immediately lose interest. The experience needs to be interesting, engaging, interactive and delivered with a short face pace.
Example:
Within the course, I foresee an activity in which the learners are asked to communicate with one Arabic speaker that they know. This can be a neighbour or a friend or a family member. The learner is asked to conduct a 10 minutes conversation with this person in Arabic and then engage in a discussion forum in which he/she talks about the experience, mentions the main takeaways from the conversation and 3 new words/expressions that they have learned.
The learning approach model:
Experiential learning
The authentic assessment that has been used to assess the learning scenario:
Through the discussion forum, the learner shares the details of his/her learning experience. The shared information assesses the knowledge that the learner has gained during the earlier experience which preceded the interactive assessment.
Related learning theories:
This scenario demonstrates Connectivism where the learner is asked to experience a learning scenario where he/she actively builds new knowledge by connecting with other people.
Digital content:
Digital content:
1. Digital document
1. Digital document
References:
- Sayed Faraan (Dec 2015). A few surprising facts about the Arabic language. https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/surprising-facts-about-arabic-language
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic
2. Enhanced digital images
2. Enhanced digital images
The platform is called "Bab" which means "door" in Arabic.
The used design is Arabic inspired and the logo consists of the word "Bab" spelled in a mixture of English and Arabic alphabet to merge in to a simple, minimal design that also incorporates the idea of a "door".
Then, I designed a poster that can be used in the initial phase for marketing the MOOC.
LOGO
I designed the logo using Canva, I started with a template that I then adapted and modified to suit the final design that I wanted to create.
As Canva gives you the options to save your design as png or jpeg, I chose png to have a higher quality image then used a free tool https://onlineconvertfree.com/convert-format/png-to-svg/ to convert it to svg vector format.
I also applied a creative commons license to my logo.
POSTER
I designed the poster using Canva where I started from a template that I then modified to accommodate my needs. The main poster image has been downloaded from unsplash where crediting isn’t required, but is appreciated and allows photographers to gain exposure.
Photo by Eliott Reyna on Unsplash
Then I edited the photo using PIXLR where I cropped the image and applied some filters and effects.
I also applied a creative commons license to my poster.
Bab logo by Eiman Elmasry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Bab poster by Eiman Elmasry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
3. Digital audio
3. Digital audio
This podcast will make part of the introductory level of the course. Making the learners listen to others telling their own stories in a young fresh way is an attempt to provide a real, interesting entry point to the course using a simple story-telling approach with the voice of the young people themselves.
An activity that involves that the participants provide their own podcasts (recordings) is foreseen after this resource.
Reflection:
For this activity, I decided to create an interview podcast. Based on the nature of the audience targeted in the learning experience, a smart selection of the used instructional tools must be made. Young people are always busy doing something. They have a short attention span and they find it intimidating and frustrating to be obliged to listen to instructional content for more than 5-10 minutes. I think a short interview with a person of the same age is a good approach to inspire them and to deliver the required message. Listening to a podcast can be done anytime, anywhere, while they are waiting for a bus or for a school lesson to start, or even while they are busy doing something else.
As for the tools: I used audacity for recording and editing the voice.
In the beginning, I have selected some royalty free background music from audiohub then I decided not to use the music and to keep the voice clear and simple.
To publish the podcast, I used an interesting online free tool sounder.fm that provides podcast hosting service and gives you the ability to produce a professional podcast output.
4. Two open educational resources
4. Two open educational resources
1 - The Arabic Keyboard
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/arabic-keyboard/view
The Arabic keyboard is an online tools provided to write and search in Arabic for Arab travelers or western users who do not have arabic keyboard.
2- BBC Guide to Arabic - Arabic Key Phrases
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/bbc-guide-to-arabic-arabic-key-phrases/view
This page from the BBC includes a list of 20 essential Arabic phrases, including hello, goodbye, thank you, and more. The Arabic phrases are written in two separate lists: one with transliterations and English translations, and the other using the Arabic alphabet.
5. Digital video
5. Digital video
Description of the instructional goal:
Description of the instructional goal:
A short screencast video demonstrating how you can design a t-shirt using canva.com
Plan and Storyboard:
Plan and Storyboard:
The video uploaded to Youtube with edited closed captions
The video uploaded to Youtube with edited closed captions
6. Interactive module
6. Interactive module
Instructional objective:
Instructional objective:
An introductory course about Vitamins. The course is a simple introduction to the nature of vitamins and the natural sources of their daily intake. The course highlights the consequences of vitamins deficiencies and uses simple videos and images to facilitate the delivery.
The course targets young people and can make part of a general awareness campaign for promoting healthy life-style at young age.
Reflection:
Reflection:
For the production of this learning module, I used Articulate Rise. Currently the module includes 4 lessons and a quiz for the purposes of the course, but it can be extended to include all other vitamins and can be enriched with more resources and interactive components.
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