adapting to e-learning
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Adapting to E-Learning:
The Experience of the Language Service at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Long Relationship with Virtual Learning
- First generation e-learning On-line material to improve linguistic and communicative abilities
Long Relationship with Virtual Learning
- Third generation e-learning The rise of the social web. Example of blog created by teachers of Catalan:
Long Relationship with Virtual Learning
- Third generation e-learning The rise of the social web. Example of blog created by two EFL teachers:
Long Relationship with Virtual Learning
- Third generation e-learning The rise of the social web. Example of a blog created by a French teacher:
Long Relationship with Virtual Learning
- Third generation e-learning The rise of the social web. Example of a wiki created by a German teacher:
The keys to our relationship with e-learning over recent years
• Tendency towards innovation • Fostering of teaching innovation • Teacher training in emerging technologies • Ensuring teaching suitability • Observing new tendencies • Accepting coexistence of different e-learning generations • Pragmatism and adaptation to the real possibilities of technology
within our framework
What do we do in relation to the avalanche of resources?
Collaborative work: Social bookmarker Mr. Wong & Netvibes Application Dashboard
Teacher training
Integrate M-learning
LEARNING LANGUAGES
Barriers are continually breaking down • in class/ on the move/ at home/ at work
• formal/ informal
• with published/ teachers’/ Ss’ own materials
• closed platforms/ blogs/ facebook/ apps/
• authentic/ adapted material
• real/ virtual world
UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE SERVICES
Any role in this?
• Marketing issues • Should language services create e-learning tools? • Teacher training • Group intelligence: observe, choose and disseminate • Students: have we asked them…
• what they want? • what they are already using?