exploring the langmooc pedagogy
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Exploring the LangMOOCPedagogy
Hands on sessionDr Maria Perifanou, ACPGeorge Bekiaridis, ACP
Agenda9.30 Arrive & Coffee
9.45 Welcome Mark Mitchell
9.50 Project IntroductionGeorge Bekiardis
10.10 Introduction to LANGMOOCs moodle platform Tord Mjosund Talmo
10.25 Workshop Introduction Alison May
10.30 Workshop (Inc coffee break)
12.30 Workshop feedbackGeorge Bekiardis
1.00 EvaluationMusarat Inayat
1.15 Lunch
PRESENTATION OUTLINE Introduction LangMOOC Pedagogy:
Theoretical background & open discussion
Hands on session: Exploring pedagogical scenarios
Presentation & Feedback
What is a MOOC?
“A MOOC is a course of study made available over the Internet usually without charge to a very large number of people: anyone who decides to take a MOOC simply logs on to the website and signs up” (Oxford Dictionaries, 2014)
Need for MOOLCsLanguage competencies & intercultural skills :
key qualifications for living and working in 21st century
Need for MOOCs related to language education
Web 2.0 participatory, immediate, authentic, engages community
a promising language learning environment
Key factors for successful online language Learning courses
learner’s autonomy
social interaction in the target language/exposure
feedback
authentic collaboration building community
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How to design an efficient Language Learning Environment for MOOLCs?
Are there many MOOLC initiatives that could provide a promising Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment (MOILLE)?
Research questions
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References:Perifanou M. & Economides A. (2014). MOOCs for Language Learning: An effort to explore and evaluate the first practices. In Proceedings of the INTED2014 conference held in Valencia, Spain 8-12 March 2014. Full-text Perifanou M. (2014)How to design and evaluate a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Language Learning. In Proceedings of the eLSE14 conference held in Buchurest, Romania, 24-25 April 2014.
PRESENTATION OUTLINE Introduction LangMOOC Pedagogy:
Theoretical background & open discussion
Hands on session: Exploring pedagogical scenarios
Presentation & Feedback
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Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment framework
MOILLE FRAMEWORK - Massive Open Interactive Language Learning Environment
Communication (peer-peer,
student-teacher, open community)
Number of instructors
PEDAGOGY
Collective intelligence
Playful/Game based learning;
Engagement &
motivation
Autonomy (Autonomous/Self-
paced/SL Learning/Reflection
)
LangMOOCs project 12
LangMOOCs project 13
LangMOOCs project 14
PRESENTATION OUTLINE Introduction LangMOOC Pedagogy:
Theoretical background & open discussion
Hands on session: Exploring pedagogical scenarios
Presentation & Feedback
Visit the study.langmooc.com Step 1: Explore and identify the teaching
methods used in the LangMOOC pilot courses (20 min).
Step 2: Propose your ideal pedagogical scenario for an interactive language learning environment. (20 min).
Step 3: Identify the tools that will be used in Moodle and for what purpose (at least 3 activities in order to enhance one of the 4 basic skills – reading/speaking/writing/listening) (40 min).
Step 4: Presentations & Discussion (10 min).
Hands on session: Exploring LangMOOC pedagogical scenarios
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MOODLE platform
www.instreamia.com/class
Visualization of daily learning progress based on different language skills and progress report that presents all activities and rates.
authentic interactive videos: - test learners’ listening comprehension via simple knowledge checks ( a fill-in-the-blank listening problem)- possibility to learners to ask for their peers’ or their teacher’s feedback in every step of the activity.
http://www.language-exchanges.org/node/106803
Authentic oral communication with native speakers via the free voice over IPphone program Skype (i.e. Mixxer platform).
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Introduction LangMOOC Pedagogy:
Theoretical background & open discussion
Hands on session: Exploring pedagogical scenarios
Presentation & Feedback
Maria Perifanou [email protected] http://mariaperif.wix.com/telresearcher
Thank you all!
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