ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Learner generated context

Learner generated context means that learners have an active role in creating the situations or scenarios in which they learn. It's like when you come up with your own game to play with your friends, and you get to decide the rules and how everything works. In learner-generated context, the learners get to decide what they want to learn and how they want to learn it.

Let's say you're learning how to play soccer. In a traditional classroom setting, you might have a teacher explain the game to you and then give you some exercises to practice. With learner-generated context, you might get to decide what aspect of soccer you want to focus on. Maybe you're really interested in dribbling, so you and your friends come up with your own game that involves dribbling around cones.

The idea behind learner-generated context is that when learners have a say in how they learn, they're more motivated and engaged. It's like when you get to choose what you want to eat for dinner - you're more likely to enjoy it because you picked it out. When learners are more engaged, they're more likely to remember what they learned and apply it in other situations. It's like when you learn a dance routine and then teach it to your family - you're not just memorizing the steps, you're also figuring out how to explain it to someone else.

Overall, learner-generated context is a way to make learning more fun and effective by giving learners more control over their learning experience.