Virtual learning object to strengthen educative inclusion through students’ sensorial learning styles
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In recent decades, the countries that are part of the United Nations, including our country, Colombia, have worked to ensure access and quality of education for all learners within the paradigm of Inclusion. However, we observed a lack of EFL didactic materials aimed at exploring the students’ capacities from the different learning styles. The purpose of this project was then to develop and analyze the effectiveness of a learning material focused on students’ capacities and likes, to strengthen the Educative Inclusion through the sensorial learning styles. We assumed that with a Virtual Learning Object, the relationship between voice, image, text and sound promotes the understanding of English as a foreign language since students can access the language from more than one communication channel. The development of the project was done in two stages: planning and creating the Virtual Learning Object, and implementing and assessing the material. Data came from questionnaires, formats and interviews addressed to 63 third graders in a co-educated school in Bogotá. Besides it came from feedback cards and from the researchers’ field notes to identify students’ perceptions about the effectiveness, and scope and limitations of the material. We found that implementing the Virtual Learning Object as a technological device strengthened the Educative Inclusion process inasmuch as it was adapted to the characteristics, rhythms and learning styles of each learner.