Who is this session for?
Instructional designers and content developers who use WordPress or LearnDash as an online training tool. Anyone who is interested in creating diverse and inclusive learning experiences for different cultural community members.
Session description
Parenting After Separation (PAS) course and its series are freely accessible courses meant to provide information to parent, guardians and family members who are dealing with family issues as a result of separation or divorce. To best support families who are going through an extremely stressful time in their lives, we designed and developed multiple versions of the same course curated for different communities, including:
- PAS – Indigenous Families
- PAS – English
- PAS – Punjabi
In order to accommodate and best support the diversity of our local population, different versions were created with extensive consultations and guidance by advisory members. Each community is unique with their own lived experiences, cultural backgrounds and languages.
With more versions of PAS to come, in this session, we will discuss:
- Designing for care when creating accessible online courses using WordPress
- Curating meaningful learning experiences unique to English, Indigenous and Punjabi-Canadians’ language and cultural contexts
- Considerations around technical and multi-lingual challenges in WordPress, LearnDash and H5P, and
- Future plans for the PAS project
Presenters
Helen Lee
Helen is a self-proclaimed challenge-chaser. Her workday is never dull as an Instructional Designer designing online courses, creating customized training programs, and playing with multimedia tools. One of the things she loves about her work is overcoming new challenges when working on projects. With an awesome team to lean on, she is able to come up with creative ways to problem solve and learn from each experience!
She completed her MA in Instructional Technology & Media from Columbia University Teachers College and is proud of her multicultural roots as a Taiwanese-Canadian.
Sessions
- General Lecture Session: Supporting Diversity: Case Study in the Design and Development of Multi-Cultural and Multi-Lingual Courses
Melanie Meyers
Melanie has worked in ed tech in both private and public sector settings since completing her MA in EdTech at Concordia University (2004). Her projects have ranged from designing open educational resources (OER) to the use of emerging technologies for elearning. She has led a number of award-winning projects that have shifted her Institution’s approach to innovative programming in Justice and Public Safety. Melanie was responsible for some of JIBC’s first open projects and championed the use of WordPress to develop OER.
Sessions
- General Lecture Session: Supporting Diversity: Case Study in the Design and Development of Multi-Cultural and Multi-Lingual Courses
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