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

)

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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 mariaperif@gmail.com http://mariaperif.wix.com/telresearcher

Thank you all!

23LangMOOCs projectgeorge.bekiaridis@gmail.com

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