Learning Support: Organizing and Developing

Organizing and Developing

I want to cater for specific groups of learners

The Analysis section of the ID Online site has a template and an activity to help with this. 

I want to design effective learner guidance and support for Pasifika or Maori students

The E-mat site identifies key success factors for Pasifika students, along with activities and resources that will help you to incorporate these in your learning design.

Nga Kiwai Kete's Kete 5: Supporting eLearning contains good practice principles for supporting all students.

Two reports, A Literature Review on Kaupapa Māori and Māori Education Pedagogy and Critical Success Factors for Effective Use of E-learning with Pacific Learners, provide background material on how culture may affect learning and achievements.

I want to cater for diverse learners

You could explore the ways in which technology is used to support 'differentiated learning' at this WestEd site.

Design for Contextual Learning, a paper by Rod Sims and Elizabeth Stork, explains how learning might be designed to engage diverse learners.

For an examination of diversity in the New Zealand tertiary sector, take a look at E-learner Profiles and Critical Success Factors and Effective Pedagogy for E-learning in Tertiary Education.