Blog Post 3 – Inclusive Design

With the basis of our interactive learning resource being around teaching the mechanics of a golf swing through step-by-step lessons, ensuring inclusivity of our learners must first come from understanding our target audience and the diversity that we may encounter. This could be age, previous golf experience, learning styles, and physical disabilities. Incorporating a variety of instructional methods tailoring towards behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism is vital to allowing different types of learners to be included, but we want to take this one step further. 

In order to attain a universal design for our teaching techniques and to avoid the necessity of retaining equality and equity, we aim to remove learning obstacles from our lessons. Continuing with this idea, we want to focus on the limits of our teaching design rather than the limitations of our learners. This will include offering a variety of activities which help to enforce the specifics of the golf swing and can tailor to each learner’s physical ability. It is important to note that with our chosen topic there are limitations to learners solely based on the nature of the activity, however each learner’s goals can differ, and teaching techniques can be adjusted to meet each goal. 

With the necessity of having the ability to adjust our learning activities as unexpected events occur, we will have a variety of mediums to ensure that our lessons can adapt to the altering circumstances. In regards to this, having access to outdoor driving ranges are a great tool, however incorporating indoor golf simulators into our lessons allows for variety of learning tools as well as the ability to adapt to weather and learners strengths, confidence levels, and accessibility to equipment. 

Golf is a large and quickly growing sport which allows for you to get out in the fresh air and enjoy time outside while challenging yourself and pushing your own limits. This is a sport that is daunting to learn, however with the correct learning resources more people can improve their skills and enjoy this sport for all that it is!