Paper details

Paper authors	Shadi Saleh
In panel on	When Humanitarian Knowledge Hits the Road; Matching Learning Needs with Context
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

With the global shift towards internet use, online learning has become one of the main educational modalities, and therefore delivering high quality distance learning is necessary. Although educational material from one context is not suitable to all locales, re-creating educational content from scratch might be an inefficient use of time. In order to limit duplication of efforts, contextualization is a useful method that adapts existing material rather than re-creating it. In other words, the linguistic, visual, cultural and contextual material is modified and tailored to suit a specific target audience. This means that content needs to be modified to become linguistically suitable, culturally relevant and functionally appropriate to the end users.
The Humanitarian Unit (HU) of the Global Health Institute (GHI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) aims to create a contextualization framework that offers a comprehensive step-by-step approach to efficiently adapt existing online courses and tailor them to the needs and culture of different contextual locales. The Framework process addresses the different phases of contextualization to ensure proper tailoring of courses for the appropriate context.

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