Providing Additional Resources (LxT)
Key Points:
Make resources available to address diverse student needs, and specify which goal/need each resources addresses.
Don't just give a list of resources. Provide incentives for students to go through the ones of their interest.
Make students answer simple recall-level questions on the resources that they accessed.
What is an LxT?
Learning Extension Trajectories (LxTs) are a mechanism to address the diversity of learners and their needs. LxTs consist of multiple types of resources followed by an Assimilation Quiz that incentivizes learners to access these resources.
Resources can include additional readings, videos, links and so on, with specific annotated goals such as ensuring pre-requisites, advancing the depth or breadth of learners’ existing knowledge, or supporting learners’ language needs.
Watch the LeD on "What is an LxT?" from 1:34 - 4:17 mins - Click Here.
What is an Assimilation Quiz?
The Assimilation Quiz is a short graded activity to ensure that learners assimilate the key concept from the resources for the intended goal.
The Assimilation Quiz can be a simple question but it should be designed so that only students who went through the resources can successfully answer it.
It is one way to incentivize learners to go through the LxTs.
How to create an LxT?
Consider the level of the diversity that exists in your class, then decide on the number and type of resources that you need to provide to your students.
Look for repositories of Open Educational Resources (OER). Apply ideas from Curating Content.
Create a simple Assimilation Quiz per resource.
Watch the LeD on "Creating LxTs" from 0:15 - 6:27 mins - Click Here.
Diving Deeper into LxT
For knowing about how to create LxTs to handle diversity in a MOOC setting, watch this LeD.
Use this LxT Constructor to plan and create your own LxTs. Link - https://lcm-model.org/constructors/
More information
Here are some more resources for diving deeper into LxTs:
MOOC Learners: Who They Are, What Motivates Them by Anant Agarwal from edX
Culture and Language Diversity in Online Learning Environment by John Laskaris
A research paper on Promoting engagement in online courses:What strategies can we learn from three highly rated MOOCS by Khe Foon Hew.
How Do You Make MOOCs More Inclusive? By Henry Kronk.