Talk:Distancelanguagelearning
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| Thread title | Replies | Last modified |
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| Comments | 1 | 13:05, 6 December 2009 |
| Learning and Content Design | 2 | 13:30, 1 May 2009 |
| Those who wish to collaborate | 1 | 17:12, 30 April 2009 |
| EFL/ESL Resources | 0 | 05:05, 30 April 2009 |
- Good start, Benjamin. I look forward to watching thjs one develop. --Philbartle 13:17, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
- This looks absolutely fabulous, Ben. --Nellie Deutsch 15:31, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
- I wish you the best in your new group Benjamin--Ricardo Valenzuela 17:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
- Looks great Ben.. I will see if I can get the language teachers here involved. --Leighblackall 21:46, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- Added a link from curriculum page at Language Learning - K 07:15, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Ben,
I saw your post to the WE google group and thought I'd take a look at your proposed learning materials and offer some constructive criticism. First I have to say that my area of expertise is not English language learning, but over the past few weeks I've been studying the various materials on WE related to learning design and thought I could share some of what I've learned.
First, looking over your materials, I can understand your vision -- it seems useful and doable. Here are some areas for thought:
- It seems to me that users within any particular topic or subject will fall into two groups: 1) individuals interested in facilitating learning: teachers, coaches, mentors, facilitators and 2) individuals whose primary goal is learning or improving their skill in that area. Which role a particular user takes as he/she approaches a content area will depend on the content and the level of instruction. I've come to the conclusion that the "front" page of a resource should probably be tailored to the learner, with a small section at the bottom that links individuals to a subpage for those interested in creating, maintaining, facilitating.... instruction in this content area.
- Like you I've been creating a structure for a learning project. See the page I created called Open Computing. That first page is targeted mainly to learners, with the project planning page designed as the main page for facilitators/content developers.
- I think that creating learning resources collaboratively might work best (notice all of the hedging here) under a distributed model. That is, content designers create various resources that can be pulled together in various ways to meet different learner needs. Having a place to discuss the full scope of resources in a content area is critical. You might also want to consider creating a style guide to provide design guidelines (see Open Computing Style Guide as an example) and begin thoughts on standards and evaluation (see the Quality Assurance Framework).
- I found that spending some time writing about the learning design and content design aspects of a proposed learning resource is very beneficial. You can see a beginning structure for this in my project to create a spreadsheet tutorial. See the box at the bottom of the page. I created that box with Template:Learning Design.
Just thought I'd share some of the concepts that I've been reading about and then trying out in the work I'm doing. Good luck with your project. I'm happy to help (or offer more constructive criticism <smile>) as needed. Just let me know.
Your Wikineighbor, Alison
Hello Alison,
Thank you very much for your insightful feedback. I will be sure to take it all into consideration. Your wiki on open computing is definitely a good model to follow. Thanks again and I may take you up on your offer to provide more feedback as this project develops.--Benjamin Stewart 15:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Glad you found it useful. (Note that I originally included the wrong link to the learning design box; it was supposed to be Template:Learning Design. The Template:LDBlueprint has the questions that I used to drive the design plans.) Enjoy!
Alison
At this point, this page is still very much a work in process, but any and all comments and suggestions are welcomed. Collaborative participation is certainly encouraged as well!--Benjamin Stewart 00:28, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm pleased to see the plan applying the Common European framework which allows materials to be matched up. Here course IV relates to A2 - which suggests that the basic user wordlist would be an appropriate goal http://www.wikieducator.org/ELT_Lexical_Syllabus/basic_user
I wanted to propose that the next step be the relatively small one between that and Simple English - the language of the Simple English wikipedia.
So far only one lesson done though: http://www.wikieducator.org/ELT_Lexical_Syllabus/simple_English/Categories
Hello Benjamin, Some time ago, I opened a page for EFL resources, to which some teachers have contributed. Maybe we should bring our material together. http://www.wikieducator.org/ELT_Resources What do you have in mind and what are your plans?
