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33 • To engage kinaesthetic learners, the following tools are useful: o There are few online tools available to support adult educators to engage learners in kinaesthetic learning activities. However, this blog posts provide some ideas for how you can employ these types of learners in the classroom: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-kinesthetic-learning-style-3212046. These activities can be adapted and replicated to online learning environments, with careful planning and consideration for how you can engage learners with diverse needs in group activities online. Apply the Competence – Innovative Ways to make use of this competence in action Creating a learning environment that is adapted to the learner ensures addressing diverse learning needs for each individual. Learners can advance at their own level in a way that suits them. By promoting accessibility and inclusion, adult learners will gain equal access to online environments and be equipped to face their own digital technologies constraints. By taking this theory into account, learners will tap into their own potential and exercise agency over their learning. If a learner is a visual learner, the adult educator could use Canva and Screencast-o-Matic to develop and present their educational materials. But it does not have to stop there. In an online learning environment, learners can also develop assignments and projects based on this preferred learning style. For example, rather than asking a visual learner to write a paper or a research piece, the adult educator could engage them in a creative project that could form part of their assessment. Tools such as Google Slides and Canva can ask learners to present their assignments and assessments in more visual ways. • GCFLearnFree.org offer a range of 'quick-start' videos for using online tools for teaching and assessment. On their YouTube Channel, you will find a range of educational videos that you can share with adult learners with a visual learning style, to support them to develop their assignments using visual tools. One such video includes, 'Google Slides: Getting Started', which can be accessed at this link : https://youtu.be/1ENtPjEp_5c If the learner is an auditory learner, as mentioned above, the adult educator can use tools such as Audacity provide learners with learning content in the form of short podcasts. However, adult educators can also support learners who are aural learners to ensure that the assessment that they are offered, also aligns with their learning style. Tools such as Google Docs or other text-to- speech apps can allow aural learners to develop assignments and assessments without reading and writing. • Adult educators can visit the YouTube Channel of GCFLearnFree.org and engage learners in using the 'voice typing' feature of Google Docs to develop their assignments: https://youtu.be/LIz9UWi5z4w .