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VirtualDutch : Open Educational Resources and
Distance Learning in a Lesser Taught Language
Community




Ulrich Tiedau
UCL Dutch
Some facts about Dutch



•   A medium-sized European language
•   Spoken by >23 million speakers as native language
•   The language of two neighbouring countries of the UK
•   One of the official languages in Suriname
•   The closest related language to English
Dutch Provision in UK Higher Education


• Four universities that
  teach Dutch to degree
  level
• one Dutch department,
  three programmes in
  departments of Germanic
  or modern languages,
• before 2005 also U of Hull
• growing interest outside of
  universities
‘VirtualDutch’ – Aims and Objectives


• Inter-institutional
  collaborative teaching and
  learning programme
• Creating shared teaching
  and learning resources
• Collaboration in teaching
  and learning
• Facilitated by technology
• Community of Practice
• Started in 2001
Rationale



• Declining interest in modern languages in the UK
• Particularly affecting the lesser taught languages
• Diminishing Resources and threats of discontinuation
  of language programmes
• Both need and opportunity to develop
  ICT-based teaching and learning resources
• Pooling of resources and expertise
• And last but certainly not least: Student benefits
Virtual Department of Dutch :
Subprojects




• Dutch Multimedia Study Packs
• Inter-institutional Collaborative Teaching Projects
  using VLEs and videoconferencing
• Online Language Courses Lagelands & Hogelands
• Learner’s Grammars for Beginners & Intermediates
• Open Learning Community Portal
Dutch Study Packs

• Some 30 interactive multimedia
  study packs,
• on aspects of Dutch and
  Flemish language, literature,
  history and society,
• for self-study, classroom use
  and remedial learning,
• catering for various levels of
  competence.
Virtual Dutch Community Portal
Integrated teaching and learning resources
Collaborative Teaching :
Advanced Translation
& Cultural Studies

• Writer in Residence
• Communication via Virtual
  Learning Environment (Moodle)
• and Video Conferences
  (AccessGrid)
Open Learning Environment in Early Modern
Low Countries history (OER Dutch history)
A VirtualDutch Open Educational Resource funded by JISC and the HE Academy

The project
  has turned a comprehensive survey course in
   early modern Low Countries history into a
   multimedia and Web 2.0 enriched Open
   Educational Resource (OER).
  specifically focuses on relations between the
   Low Countries and the Anglophone world.
  uses freely available Web 2.0 tools and
   services and be based on open and
   transferable standards (e.g. SCORM) which
   can be delivered by a variety of platforms and
   Virtual Learning Environments
  combines a series of multimedia teaching and
   learning objects like the interactive multimedia
   timeline in an integrated resource-rich but
   directed open learning environment.
OER Dutch history : deliverables
Open Learning Environment for Early Modern
Low Countries History
     1.   A transferable learning package (in SCORM format) based on
          the teaching and learning materials of a face-to-face course
          on Low Countries history,

     1.   an interactive and illustrated multimedial timeline on Anglo-
          Dutch relations from antiquity to 1830 using MIT’s Simile
          technology (Web 2.0),

     1.   technologically updated versions of existing self-directed study
          packs (including revision of structure and contents for the
          purpose of the integrated Open Learning environment),

     1.   a reading skills course in 17th century Dutch,

     1.   an open learning environment on the basis of the VLE Moodle,
          integrating all deliverables.
Timeline of Cross-Channel Interactions
50 BC – 1830


• Based on a comprehensive
  manuscript by Jaap Harskamp
• Comprises more than 800
  extensively annotated entries on
  Anglo-Dutch exchanges
• Illustrated (IPR permitting)
• Using MIT’s Simile timeline
  technology (Web 2.0)
Reading Course Early Modern Dutch
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch/OER/
The next step: distance programme


• UCL programme, with teaching input from
  Sheffield
    – Envisaged to become a fully inter-institutional degree programme

•   Using VirtualDutch Open Educational Resources,
•   Institutional Virtual Learning Environment,
•   Desktop Videoconferencing.
•   Tutor-supported.
Distance programme (since 2009/10)


• Short courses
   –   Beginners Dutch ‘Lagelands’ (started Sept 2009)
   –   Advanced Dutch ‘Hogelands’ (started Sept 2009)
   –   Early Modern Dutch (starts Sept 2010)
   –   Business Dutch (starts Sept 2010)

• PgCert / PgDipl / MA Dutch Cultural Studies
   – Postgraduate Certificate (started Sept 2009)
   – Postgraduate Diploma (starts Sept 2010)
   – MA Dutch Cultural Studies (starts Sept 2011)
Short courses:
e.g. Beginners Dutch


• Lagelands Beginners Dutch
   – provides learners with the skills they
     need to speak, write and understand simple Dutch
     in a range of everyday contexts,
   – requires no prior knowledge of the language,
   – outcome of a level comparable to A2
     as defined by the Council of Europe,
   – runs twice per year, taught over a 16 weeks period,
   – the language of instruction is English.
Hogelands
Advanced Dutch


• Hogelands Advanced Dutch
  – extends the learners’ language skills and enhances their cultural
    knowledge of Dutch-speaking societies.
  – is designed for students who have successfully completed
    Lagelands or have reached a similar standard, equivalent to level
    A2 as defined by the Council of Europe,
  – runs over a thirty-two weeks study period,
  – language of instruction is English and Dutch.
PgCert / PgDipl / MA
Dutch Cultural Studies


• Opportunity to study the modern society of
  the Netherlands and Flanders,
• teaching staff are drawn from UCL and Sheffield,
• taught in English; available to students without previous knowledge of
  Dutch as well as to those already proficient in the language,
• learning Dutch, or improving one’s command of it, part of the
  programme.
• Students take a core course on the contemporary society and culture
  of the Low Countries, and either one or two optional courses,
• all courses are fully tutor-supported,
• some scholarships available,
• leads to a fully recognized qualification from UCL.
Syllabus Distance programme

             CERTIFICATE                                  DIPLOMA


Beginners    CORE 1     Business Dutch        Beginners   CORE 1    Business Dutch    CORE 2         Project
               30             30                            30            30            30             30
Advanced     CORE 1       Hogelands           Advanced    CORE 1      Hogelands       CORE 2         Project
               30            30                             30           30             30             30
  Fluent     CORE 1         Project            Fluent     CORE 1       Project        CORE 2     Adv. Translation
               30             30                            30           30             30             30
                  Total 60 credits                                           Total 120 credits




Students continuing from Certificate to Diploma:

             CERTIFICATE                      Add for DIPLOMA:


 Beginners    CORE 1     Business Dutch    CORE 2         Project
                30             30            30             30
Some Screenshots
Some concluding remarks



• In 2009/10 twelve students followed the postgraduate certificate,
  about 20 the short courses
• Short courses can be accredited towards the degree programme
• Feedback overwhelmingly positive
• Majority of learning resources openly available
• Community aspects: staff/students
• Collaboration way forward for LWT languages?
Thank you very much!


• VirtualDutch
  <http://www.dutch.ac.uk/>
• Open Learning Environment Early Modern
  Low Countries history (OER Dutch history)
  <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch/OER/>

• Contact: Ulrich Tiedau
  E-mail: u.tiedau@ucl.ac.uk

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Ulrich Tiedau

  • 1. VirtualDutch : Open Educational Resources and Distance Learning in a Lesser Taught Language Community Ulrich Tiedau UCL Dutch
  • 2. Some facts about Dutch • A medium-sized European language • Spoken by >23 million speakers as native language • The language of two neighbouring countries of the UK • One of the official languages in Suriname • The closest related language to English
  • 3. Dutch Provision in UK Higher Education • Four universities that teach Dutch to degree level • one Dutch department, three programmes in departments of Germanic or modern languages, • before 2005 also U of Hull • growing interest outside of universities
  • 4. ‘VirtualDutch’ – Aims and Objectives • Inter-institutional collaborative teaching and learning programme • Creating shared teaching and learning resources • Collaboration in teaching and learning • Facilitated by technology • Community of Practice • Started in 2001
  • 5. Rationale • Declining interest in modern languages in the UK • Particularly affecting the lesser taught languages • Diminishing Resources and threats of discontinuation of language programmes • Both need and opportunity to develop ICT-based teaching and learning resources • Pooling of resources and expertise • And last but certainly not least: Student benefits
  • 6. Virtual Department of Dutch : Subprojects • Dutch Multimedia Study Packs • Inter-institutional Collaborative Teaching Projects using VLEs and videoconferencing • Online Language Courses Lagelands & Hogelands • Learner’s Grammars for Beginners & Intermediates • Open Learning Community Portal
  • 7. Dutch Study Packs • Some 30 interactive multimedia study packs, • on aspects of Dutch and Flemish language, literature, history and society, • for self-study, classroom use and remedial learning, • catering for various levels of competence.
  • 9. Integrated teaching and learning resources
  • 10. Collaborative Teaching : Advanced Translation & Cultural Studies • Writer in Residence • Communication via Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) • and Video Conferences (AccessGrid)
  • 11. Open Learning Environment in Early Modern Low Countries history (OER Dutch history) A VirtualDutch Open Educational Resource funded by JISC and the HE Academy The project  has turned a comprehensive survey course in early modern Low Countries history into a multimedia and Web 2.0 enriched Open Educational Resource (OER).  specifically focuses on relations between the Low Countries and the Anglophone world.  uses freely available Web 2.0 tools and services and be based on open and transferable standards (e.g. SCORM) which can be delivered by a variety of platforms and Virtual Learning Environments  combines a series of multimedia teaching and learning objects like the interactive multimedia timeline in an integrated resource-rich but directed open learning environment.
  • 12. OER Dutch history : deliverables Open Learning Environment for Early Modern Low Countries History 1. A transferable learning package (in SCORM format) based on the teaching and learning materials of a face-to-face course on Low Countries history, 1. an interactive and illustrated multimedial timeline on Anglo- Dutch relations from antiquity to 1830 using MIT’s Simile technology (Web 2.0), 1. technologically updated versions of existing self-directed study packs (including revision of structure and contents for the purpose of the integrated Open Learning environment), 1. a reading skills course in 17th century Dutch, 1. an open learning environment on the basis of the VLE Moodle, integrating all deliverables.
  • 13. Timeline of Cross-Channel Interactions 50 BC – 1830 • Based on a comprehensive manuscript by Jaap Harskamp • Comprises more than 800 extensively annotated entries on Anglo-Dutch exchanges • Illustrated (IPR permitting) • Using MIT’s Simile timeline technology (Web 2.0)
  • 14. Reading Course Early Modern Dutch
  • 16. The next step: distance programme • UCL programme, with teaching input from Sheffield – Envisaged to become a fully inter-institutional degree programme • Using VirtualDutch Open Educational Resources, • Institutional Virtual Learning Environment, • Desktop Videoconferencing. • Tutor-supported.
  • 17. Distance programme (since 2009/10) • Short courses – Beginners Dutch ‘Lagelands’ (started Sept 2009) – Advanced Dutch ‘Hogelands’ (started Sept 2009) – Early Modern Dutch (starts Sept 2010) – Business Dutch (starts Sept 2010) • PgCert / PgDipl / MA Dutch Cultural Studies – Postgraduate Certificate (started Sept 2009) – Postgraduate Diploma (starts Sept 2010) – MA Dutch Cultural Studies (starts Sept 2011)
  • 18. Short courses: e.g. Beginners Dutch • Lagelands Beginners Dutch – provides learners with the skills they need to speak, write and understand simple Dutch in a range of everyday contexts, – requires no prior knowledge of the language, – outcome of a level comparable to A2 as defined by the Council of Europe, – runs twice per year, taught over a 16 weeks period, – the language of instruction is English.
  • 19. Hogelands Advanced Dutch • Hogelands Advanced Dutch – extends the learners’ language skills and enhances their cultural knowledge of Dutch-speaking societies. – is designed for students who have successfully completed Lagelands or have reached a similar standard, equivalent to level A2 as defined by the Council of Europe, – runs over a thirty-two weeks study period, – language of instruction is English and Dutch.
  • 20. PgCert / PgDipl / MA Dutch Cultural Studies • Opportunity to study the modern society of the Netherlands and Flanders, • teaching staff are drawn from UCL and Sheffield, • taught in English; available to students without previous knowledge of Dutch as well as to those already proficient in the language, • learning Dutch, or improving one’s command of it, part of the programme. • Students take a core course on the contemporary society and culture of the Low Countries, and either one or two optional courses, • all courses are fully tutor-supported, • some scholarships available, • leads to a fully recognized qualification from UCL.
  • 21. Syllabus Distance programme CERTIFICATE DIPLOMA Beginners CORE 1 Business Dutch Beginners CORE 1 Business Dutch CORE 2 Project 30 30 30 30 30 30 Advanced CORE 1 Hogelands Advanced CORE 1 Hogelands CORE 2 Project 30 30 30 30 30 30 Fluent CORE 1 Project Fluent CORE 1 Project CORE 2 Adv. Translation 30 30 30 30 30 30 Total 60 credits Total 120 credits Students continuing from Certificate to Diploma: CERTIFICATE Add for DIPLOMA: Beginners CORE 1 Business Dutch CORE 2 Project 30 30 30 30
  • 23. Some concluding remarks • In 2009/10 twelve students followed the postgraduate certificate, about 20 the short courses • Short courses can be accredited towards the degree programme • Feedback overwhelmingly positive • Majority of learning resources openly available • Community aspects: staff/students • Collaboration way forward for LWT languages?
  • 24. Thank you very much! • VirtualDutch <http://www.dutch.ac.uk/> • Open Learning Environment Early Modern Low Countries history (OER Dutch history) <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch/OER/> • Contact: Ulrich Tiedau E-mail: u.tiedau@ucl.ac.uk