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5.6.1 TEACHING AND LEARNING ON ZOOM IN SPECIAL E-CONFERENCE
ROOMS

Many educational institutions within the general adult educational sector have estab-
lished video conference rooms for e-classes. This indicates that teachers are able to
carry out teaching and guidance of learners independently of physical attendance or
possibly as blended learning with a combination of physical and virtual participation.
Learners gain access to virtual whiteboards and "breakout rooms" with the possibility
to combine team teaching, group work and individual mentoring on a virtual basis.

5.6.2 THE LEARNING PLATFORM ITSLEARNING
Itslearning is a learning management system and a virtual learning environment for
teachers and learners. Itslearning can be adapted to many different learning objec-
tives, learners´ profiles and learning contexts. The platform provides space for a multi-
tude of educational materials such as videos, jobrelated materials and interactive ex-
ercises that can be used flexibly based on the "learning-on-demand" principle. It is
possible to establish dialogue rooms spaces with virtual facilities in which learners can
communicate individually and in groups with the teacher etc. In addition, the platform
contains extensive storage functions where learners have access to digital libraries,
learning materials, manuals, instructions, exercises etc, provided for both visual, audi-
ovisual and other learning styles.

5.6.3 WHATSAPP AS – THE DIGITAL CHANNEL FOR MANY ADULT LEARN-
ERS
Some experts have particularly highlighted the use of WhatsApp for teaching adult
learners. They complement zoom-based teaching facilities with WhatsApp on the spe-
cific grounds that many of their learners have roots in Middle Eastern countries, where
WhatsApp is a preferred medium. The expert teachers point to the fact that WhatsApp
is structured as a conversation thread. Everything is to be found in a long thread, in
which you can scroll down to what was said last week. Learners who were absent can
find corresponding recordings on zoom. This functionality can be challenging for
teachers who would prefer to have all materials in one folder with subfolders. Howev-
er, the experience is that many adult learners don't like the folder structure. It can be
difficult for them to understand and use the teachers' folder structure. In summery,
the expert teachers describe how WhatsApp is used multimodally. As an introduction,
the teacher presents a still image, possibly a video or a page from a book, perhaps an
assignment for the reading-oriented learners. Some learners also need a demonstra-
tion video where they can watch the teacher performing the first task. If dyslexic
learners are present, the teacher also produces audio files. In addition, the teachers
use the AppWriter package to support reading and writing exercises in language learn-
ing processes. Other experts also referred to Padlet.