voyages to new horizons: virtual exchange

Voyages to new horizons.

Teresa MacKinnon, Principal Teaching Fellow, School of Languages and Cultures.

Context:

Virtual Exchange (#OIE) development within language learning vle Languages@Warwick#clavier project case study published in INTENT report and tasks uploaded to uni-collaboration database.

Growing interest in telecollaboration and online intercultural exchange to support skills for “global graduates”British Council Going Mobile reportHigher Education Academy Internationalising Higher Education Framework.

Research and data collection.

Languages@Warwick design informed by empirical research into language teaching undertaken as part of Master’s dissertation.

“Traveler metaphore” (Steiner Kvale, 1996) Bildungsreise

Community of Practice approach (Wenger, 2000)

Ongoing qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.

Regular open dissemination of findings through formal and informal channels.

• Students as creators• Rhizomatic growth into teacher

education communities exploring new pedagogies

Getting to know each other

Languages@Warwick review 2013

Student satisfaction with online course use highest when interaction included in design.

Presented at Eurocall, Evora 2013, paper available as OER.

Mark Childs (2010) A conceptual framework for mediated environments,Educational Research, 52:2, 197-213, DOI: 10.1080/00131881.2010.482738To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2010.482738

Presented at Eurocall 2013 Evora, Portugal.Paper submitted for publishing as part of “Online Intercultural Exchange: Policy, Pedagogy, Practice” Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication edited by Zhu Hua, Claire Kramsch.