Challenge:

I am working as personnel for an organization that is enthusiastic in providing an alternate  learning environment, where in it gives you an idea how education can change a student’s  career using hands-on experience as well as online studies. The challenge that we face came  from considering our current situation, experiencing COVID-19 outbreak pandemic, where  students cannot have exposure to practical and hand-on learning. So, the challenge is to ensure  that learning can happen online. To understand much better, we should also understand how  long the learning span of a student is who enrolled to learn such skills over online video.

Selection:

The tool we would like to use is a Learning Launch. As part of organization, we are also a  focused on making face shields for this COVID-19 crisis with an educational business that is on a  standstill with students’ enrolment & waiting for instructions on what can be done next. Our  pioneers are also involved in implementing design thinking tools. This is the time we figured  that a learning launch would be one of the best possible tools to solve the challenge.

Application:

First and foremost, we cannot afford to have an instructor and space to teach. We need to  solve in a theoretical way. Hence, sitting in a comfort zone i.e. home, an instructor and me  gathered a list of all possible solutions to upgrade the skills that needs to be done physically.

Secondly, we started interviewing the students to know how one can perceive. A half hour  interview consists of these questions such as What are the interest levels when learning  online?, Does the learning stay with student when they are implementing it directly on a piece  of hardware? and How long a student can afford to sit through a session if they are  simultaneously practicing with instructor?

After understanding those answers, we decided to roll out our skills in form on video tutorial.  We found that as a simple way to go about it.

Finally, we arranged a software to be installed in each student’s laptops/desktops and go live  through a screen sharing session (programming). We conducted tutorials, Discussion rooms live  during the week.

Insight:

Post these live sessions, we had quick overview that the learning was able to share in form of  video that can be used to refer over a period which results in long term learning.

We also shared the files with the people who were held up in the office to render them, to  show the students on where exactly they went wrong & what can improve in their files. Also  planning to send out hardware devices to the students after the lockdown regulations to make  sure that students are implementing it directly on the tool. If they fail in implementing, they can  schedule calls with the instructor and could know a way to solve their problem. This would  result in working faster and in an efficient way.

Approach:

In order in make a difference when compared with other online learning tutorials, now we are  planning to conduct a Design Thinking Session with our organization student itself. This helps to  understand whenever and wherever we are working wrong. This results in improving the  learning. In this latest way of understanding the target audience, we shall be using all possible  ways and tools thus indeed help us in understanding the true problem when we release better  skills for the students to learn from later on.

