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Trish Harvey; Karen Moroz; Jennifer Carlson – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
With an increase in Synchronous online learning, there is a shift in how current teaching practices are impacted and what is important to students and student learning. Synchronous teaching is not taking face-to-face strategies online, instead, it requires intentional design and thoughtful planning. To that end, this paper discusses pedagogical…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Community Development, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Sadoux, Marion – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This research is an exploratory study that seeks to evaluate the potentials of the Chinese app WeChat to enhance the spoken fluency of learners of French in China, who report having limited and insufficient opportunities to practice speaking in their daily life. WeChat is an extremely popular instant messenger facilitating communication through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, French, Informal Education
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Valcke, Jennifer; Alfaro, Elena Romero – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Due to the increasing internationalisation of higher education, universities must ensure the professional development of their teaching staff in English-Medium Instruction (EMI). Nevertheless, very few universities have the means to invest in teacher training and offer their teachers the opportunity to develop the competences that will ensure best…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education
Alzahrani, Ibraheem; Woollard, John – Online Submission, 2013
This paper seeks to discover the relationship between both the social constructivist learning theory and the collaborative learning environment. This relationship can be identified by giving an example of the learning environment. Due to wiki characteristics, Wiki technology is one of the most famous learning environments that can show the…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication, Educational Environment, Constructivism (Learning)
Nakajima, Taira – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012
The author demonstrates a new system useful for reflective learning. Our new system offers an environment that one can use handwriting tablet devices to bookmark symbolic and descriptive feedbacks into simultaneously recorded videos in the environment. If one uses video recording and feedback check sheets in reflective learning sessions, one can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Feedback (Response), Handwriting
Codreanu, Tatiana; Celik, Christelle Combe – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
Current research describes multimodal pedagogical communication of two populations of online teachers; trainee tutors (second year students of the Master of Arts in Teaching French as a Foreign Language at the university Lumiere-Lyon 2, France) and experienced teachers based in different locations (France, Spain and Finland). They all taught…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Experienced Teachers
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Pulker, Hélène – Research-publishing.net, 2013
The use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) to support language teaching and learning in higher education has become standard practice in recent years. While OER initiatives have given considerable attention to teacher's engagement as well as the sharing of culture and the creation and uploading of OERs, there is little evidence about specific…
Descriptors: Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services, Foreign Countries
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Jauregi, Kristi; Canto, Silvia – Research-publishing.net, 2012
One of the key concerns of educators is to come to know what works in language teaching and under which conditions (Intercultural) Communicative Competence can be furthered. This concern is even bigger among professionals experimenting or willing to experiment with new media. Following socio-constructivist theories of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Speakers, Computer Assisted Instruction
Correia, Ana-Paula; Baran, Evrim; Cagiltay, Kursat – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this case study is to understand ways to plan, organize and facilitate experiences in which experts who are geographically dispersed act as effective consultants. Graduate students enrolled in an advanced course in instructional technology at a large university in the Midwestern United States interacted with colleagues studying at a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Advanced Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Consultants