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Diversifying Learner Experience

A kaleidoscope of instructional approaches and strategies

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Caroline Koh

    1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Discusses educational, psychological, and social issues/ challenges related to the diverse needs of both young and adult learners
  • Presents solutions and approaches catering to the diverse needs of learners in different contexts
  • Explores how learner experiences can be diversified to promote engagement and performance

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Diversifying Learner Experiences to Promote Engagement and Performance

    • Caroline Koh
    Pages 1-9

  4. Diversifying Learner Experiences Beyond the Classroom

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Learning Beyond Museum Walls: Virtual Excursions at Te Papa Tongarewa

      • David Bell, Jeffrey Smith
      Pages 121-135

    3. Play and Flow: Harnessing Flow Through the Power of Play in Adult Learning

      • Isabelle Ong
      Pages 137-155

    4. Initial Teacher Education in a Neo-liberal System: Making One-Size Fit All

      • Steven S. Sexton, Sandra Williamson-Leadley
      Pages 157-171

    5. Cultivating Learner Experiences: Using Information and Communication Technology to Counter Locational Disadvantage

      • Syazlin Sazali, Alicia Franklin, Anthony Dillon, Alexander S. Yeung
      Pages 173-187

  5. Diversifying Experiences for Learners with Special Needs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Catering for Diversity in Psychosocial and Learning Needs in a Low-Income Country

      • Miriam Mason, David Galloway, Andrew Joyce-Gibbons
      Pages 191-206

    3. Tier 2 Intervention for Students with Internalizing Symptoms

      • Minglee Yong, Boon Ooi Lee
      Pages 207-226

    4. The Benefits of Video Instruction as a Pedagogical Tool for Students with Moderate to Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder

      • Adeline M. Y. Yeong, Anuradha S. K. Dutt
      Pages 227-240

    5. Using Serious Games to Support Learners with Mobility and Sensory Impairments

      • Caroline Koh
      Pages 241-253

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 255-257
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About this book

This book brings together strategies and innovations that educators from diverse educational contexts have conceptualized and implemented to cater to differences in academic ability, as well as in other domains such as psychosocial contexts and developmental needs. The emergence of IT and new technologies have altered the educational landscape and opened a multitude of opportunities for diverse modes of instruction catering to diverse student populations.

The book addresses the gap in the literature with evidence-based reports of innovative strategies and approaches that are grounded in educational research. It identifies student differences in terms of academic ability and also, with regard to their cultural and social background, their developmental and psycho-emotional needs. It examines how new technologies are used in instructional approaches and how these innovative strategies diversify learner experiences. The book is a valuable resource to practitioners, researchers and educational administrators.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Caroline Koh

About the editor

Caroline Koh is Associate Professor and Head, Psychology and Child & Human Development, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. An educator for over three decades, she has researched and published on areas as diverse as learner motivation, group work, moral development and reasoning, national education and more recently, the use of technology-enhanced pedagogies. Through her career as a teacher and researcher, she found that IT and other new technologies have offered a multitude of opportunities for the proliferation of diverse modes of instruction catering to the diverse student populations. However, though educators have been constantly creating and adopting new pedagogies and instructional approaches, many of these have remained within the confines of the classroom and have not been shared with the wider community. Associate Professor Koh's work was conceived as an attempt to close this gap.

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