Telecollaboration uses “…online communication tools to bring together language learners in different countries for the development of collaborative work and intercultural exchange” (O’Dowd & Ritter, 2006, p623). Such collaborations may also be known as Tandem Language Learning (TLL), Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) or even Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (ICFLE). In this video, Hungary-based teacher…
Category: Telecollaboration
Telecollaboration uses “…online communication tools to bring together language learners in different countries for the development of collaborative work and intercultural exchange” (O’Dowd & Ritter, 2006, p623). Such collaborations may also be known as Tandem Language Learning (TLL), Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) or even Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (ICFLE). In this video, Hungary-based teacher…
Telecollaboration uses “…online communication tools to bring together language learners in different countries for the development of collaborative work and intercultural exchange” (O’Dowd & Ritter, 2006, p623). Such collaborations may also be known as Tandem Language Learning (TLL), Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) or even Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (ICFLE). In this video, Hungary-based teacher…
Telecollaboration uses “…online communication tools to bring together language learners in different countries for the development of collaborative work and intercultural exchange” (O’Dowd & Ritter, 2006, p623). Such collaborations may also be known as Tandem Language Learning (TLL), Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) and even Internet-mediated Intercultural Foreign Language Education (ICFLE). In this video, Hungary-based teacher,…
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What on earth is Tandem Language Learning? I must begin by saying that I had never heard of the term ‘tandem learning’ until I started the Teleollaboration module for my Masters this semester. (What’s Telecollaboration?! Find out in an upcoming post!) So I am very glad to dig deeper into this idea now, thanks to…
Here is an informal reflection of where I am at right now in terms of teaching and learning, inspired by an Educause Review article entitled Heads on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0, by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. Friends in China can watch the video on Youku.