I had the pleasure of reading and learning about an Interactive Learning Resource called the ‘Introduction to Chinese’ by Learning Pod 3. This blog post will offer a peer review in response to this Learning Resource.
As mentioned by group 3, the target audience for this learning design is professionals and enthusiasts, as it facilitates cross-cultural communication and business in China, and is also useful for those who are simply interested in Chinese culture.
Thank you, Pod 3 for sharing your Interactive Learning resource, it was very enjoyable and insightful to read.
You did a great job of providing a clear overview of the topic you are addressing, the learning theories you will be focusing on, and including the history and background information on your educational topic. I appreciate the brief overview you provided at the start on the general layout of your content on bright space. This is helpful for picturing how your course will be structured.
Further, I agree that introducing the background and history of Chinese characters to immerse learners into the Chinese culture will be an effective way of stimulating engagement in learning Chinese characters.
I like how you incorporated a variety of multimedia learning tools, such as videos, lessons, quizzes, learning apps. This is a great way of accommodating different learning styles and preferences and offers diversity in your learning design.
There are a lot of strong ideas in this interactive learning resource that I think will create a great course! After thoroughly examining the ideas, concepts, and overall goal of this learning resource, I have come up with some constructive feedback, ideas, and suggestion that I think might be beneficial for enhancing this project even further.
You have provided great essential questions, learning objectives, and interactive activities, but I would love to learn more about how your students will achieve the learning outcomes you proposed. This could include providing completion steps by dividing the course into different sections. This would also be a great way of tracking learning achievements and progress. I feel that an effective way to help students track their progress could be to incorporate means for active feedback.
I would love to hear more about how you plan to actively track student achievements, perhaps using rubrics, completion marks, or tests? This includes how you will determine learners’ final standing in relation to their efforts, participation, and understanding of course content, and how this will be determined.
Finally, it would also be interesting to hear a bit about how you plan to integrate UDL principles into your interactive learning resource to make it accessible and inclusive for all learners interested in participating in your course.
Overall, I think you have a great topic with strong ideas. I love how you organized your essential questions, learning objectives/outcomes, assessment plan, and resources/tools into a table. This learning resources is well organized and does an excellent job of describing the goal of the course and capturing student engagement. To make this course even more effective, you could consider integrating some of the suggestions above!
Great work and thanks for sharing
Group 3’s Interactive Learning Resource that I have reviewed:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1be8jwNEgMp7LgA1VWj04M2kG_PV7EnULc3OtqRfGJrQ/edit