The motivation of Francophone adults to use assistive technologies for workplace learning

The most recent report, published by AlphaPlus in French, discusses the use of assistive technologies in the workplace and offers an approach to address the needs of francophone adult learners. More specifically, this report on assistive technologies and learner motivation is designed to help improve the instructional design of assistive technologies in order to prepare learners to develop and maintain new skills throughout their lives. We invite you to read the Executive Summary of this report in English and the full report in French.

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Voki – create speaking avatars to communicate and interact with your students

Voki is a quick and fun way to create a talking digital representation of a person, often referred to as a speaking avatar, to enhance online content. Combined with audio or even video, these speaking characters can add a more ’human’ or interactive element to the online classroom, website or blog. For example, practitioners can use a voki avatar to introduce a course or a topic or to read out specific instructions, and students can use voki to enhance their assignments and activities.

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Tracey Mollins - Using Voki to enhance online learning for adult literacy students

Voki is a free service where you can create talking heads to post on a blog, website or learning platform. I have been using Voki to help adult literacy learners who are learning at a distance to follow activity instructions. One of the challenges we face when creating online learning opportunities for literacy learners is developing instructions that are short, concise and easy-to-read. Sometimes we make choices about activities based on how complicated the instructions are. I found Voki to be a big help with this. We can expand the range of activities because we can easily create audio supports for learners.

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