Learner self assessment for participation in online language learning
Description
One of your responsibilities as an online facilitator is to help your learners develop their own sense of responsibility for their learning. Once learners embrace having more control over their own learning, they can then start to guide their actions more directly in association with their own unique reasons for studying. Each learner has their own professional, academic, and community-based reasons for wanting to develop their language skills, and as much as a facilitator can help learners connect course objectives to individualized needs, no one will be able to connect and guide learners’ own efforts as effectively as themselves.
As learners become more responsible for their learning, they become more invested in their learning, and they become more engaged in the course or activity. Increased engagement for one learner is infectious and can help others in the course or activity do the same, building on more frequent purposeful interaction to help foster community in the online space.
This resource is a checklist and explanation of strategies you can hand out to learners, so they can assess their own participation. It includes information about learner responsibility, a description of the benefits and of the challenges of online learning, and three animation videos.