10. Tensions
• Curriculum
• Learning spaces
• Roles
• Modes of communication
• Institutional norms
• Closed, pre-defined vs co-
constructed, flexible
• Formal vs informal
• Directed vs self directed
• Enforced vs chosen
• Fixed processes vs readiness for
change
11. Read more:
• O’Dowd, R., & Ware, P. (2009). Critical issues in telecollaborative task design.
Computer Assisted Language Learning, 22(2), 173–188.
• O’Dowd, R., & Lewis, T. (eds.) (2016) Online Intercultural Exchange: Policy,
Pedagogy, Practice. Routledge:London.
• Trends shaping education 2016 OECD
http://www.slideshare.net/OECDEDU/trends-shaping-education-2016
Harvard: Disruption in Education
• Educause http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffpiu013.pdf
Editor's Notes
M2.warwicklanguage.org.uk
Disruption in education Christensen et al, 2003 Harvard BS – business centric, 2 types – product (telephone replacing telegram) / access (cost reduced – MOOCs)
Diversion from importance of learning
Polarisation – most interesting opportunities lie at the intersections
Complexity of language learning – social/psychological, not purely cognitive.
An effective 2nd language user has to create a new identity, a new way of being themselves. Increases empathy, opens minds, better thinkers.
Access important.
OIE happens at intersections
OECD report – oie tasks situated there. Tasks designed collaboratively.
Uni-collaboration.eu database
Social aspects of VLE’s not well developed, carried out a survey of European language practitioners using tools for international collaboration for HEA.
Moodle - Object oriented, content based approach. In language the interactions matter, social construction of knowledge limited by clunky asynchronous tools with unintuitive interfaces. Voice – scaffolding.
Social media tools used by staff and students to augment and enhance immediacy
Synchronous tools, wimba classroom + elluminate, bb collaborate classic – now webRTC – html5 Ultra, complex development as browser standards non existent, useable across browsers and devices.
Type 1 disruptive technology, now pressure to type 2.
Snap surfaces messages on right hand side once logged in
Filters – so last century!
Importance of open practice, learning should not be locked down, available only to some communities.
Access to materials limited, opened16 conference – effects on us students of high costs of learning http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/access-denied