A Question on Distance Learning

1.According to Nancy, one of the Spanish language distance education teachers surveyed by Sánchez-Serrano (2008), “the online curriculum should be designed to match, as closely as possible, the needs of the environment and of the students, while not attempting to imitate its face-to-face counterparts as the perfect model” (p. 157). This sentiment is echoed in the comments by Stickler and Hempel in Episode 5 of the CALLspot, who point out that putting powerpoints and lecture notes online is not enough for online instruction. 

 

How should a curriculum and lessons for online language instruction differ from a curriculum and lessons for  face-to-face language instruction?

TED-talk

Hello Everyone,
here's the link to the TED-talk on search limitations:

 
http://blog.ted.com/2011/05/02/beware-online-filter-bubbles-eli-pariser-on-ted-com/

It's called "Beware online “filter bubbles” and delivered by  Eli Pariser.

/Maria F

Welcome to the 2013 IKT Course at Lund

Welcome to the blog for the spring 2013 IKT Course at Lund. This blog is a space for the sharing of information as your work on your projects and as a space to post comments and reports for upcoming in-class activities.

In order to participate fully, you will need to accept the invitation sent to your email account. If you did not receive an invitation, please check your spam filters as invitations are sometimes treated as spam.

If you look around, you will see that this same space has been used by previous courses in computer-assisted language learning for ESL instructors in the United States. Scroll back through these prior posts and identify one that you find particularly interesting. Provide a link and comment on it in response to this post.