e-Learning Ecologies MOOC’s Updates

Multimodal learning

Multimodal learning is teaching a concept through visual, auditory, reading, writing, and kinaesthetic methods. It is meant to improve the quality of teaching by matching content delivery with the best mode of learning from the student.

Research has proven that students learn best when educators apply multiple learning styles simultaneously. Multimodal learning creates an exciting learning environment, which leads to increased engagement from the students. It is because they aren’t required to conform to a particular learning style that doesn’t suit them.

The Benefits of Multimodal

*Promotes more interactivity
*Portrays information in multiple ways
*Keeps focus better since more senses are being used to process information
*Allows for more flexibility and creativity to present information

Did you know that students prefer digital learning and technology nowadays? When using videos for eLearning, you can incorporate techniques such as eye-catching visuals and high-quality audio to ignite and retain a learner’s creativity. You can even use whiteboard animation for your online courses.

Visual &Video learning

It`s a way of learning many students prefer it, especially visual learners. Some projects will have the students finding information from different media sources such as books, podcasts, and news clips. Then they create a presentation of their findings, through video learning they will practice finding information using different sense such as seeing, listening and this will help them to improve their skills.

Multimodal learning is a great tool especially if you want to improve the quality of your teaching. Summarizing there are 4 different modes: visual, auditory, reading/writing, physical/kinaesthetic.

 

Source :

 

https://elearningindustry.com/what-is-multimodal-learning

 

https://www.uis.edu/learning-hub/writing-resources/handouts/learning-hub/what-is-multimodal

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