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Virtual Reference for Video Collections: System Infrastructure, User Interface and Pilot User Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A new video-based Virtual Reference (VR) tool called VideoHelp was designed and developed to support video navigation escorting, a function that enables librarians to co-navigate a digital video with patrons in the web-based environment.
Borgman   +17 more
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The Language Exchange Programme: plugging the gap in formal learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the context of distance language learning, speaking is frequently perceived as the most challenging skill; this paper reports on a 12-week summer language exchange programme providing students with new ways of practising their oral abilities. Students
Brammerts   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Synchronous Telecollaboration for Novice Language Learners: Effects on Speaking Skills and Language Learning Interests

open access: yesALSIC: Apprentissage des Langues et Systèmes d'Information et de Communication, 2017
Telecollaboration brings together learners in different parts of the world for collaborative language learning and cultural exchange. Defined by Belz as the "application of global communication networks in foreign language education" (2002: 61 ...
Theresa Schenker
doaj   +1 more source

When future teachers meet real learners through telecollaboration: an experiential approach to learn how to teach languages online

open access: yesJournal of Virtual Exchange, 2020
The integration of technology in language teaching has been one important topic in language education and teacher training. Teacher education has been one of the aims of telecollaboration since the beginning of the 2000’s. While the first pioneers worked
Marco Cappellini, Yu-Yin Hsu
doaj   +1 more source

Telecollaborative Webcasting: Strengthening acquisition of humanities content knowledge through foreign language education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This Level II Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant intends to support design, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative curriculum-development project aimed at strengthening humanities content learning through a telecollaborative foreign language ...
Victoria Hasko, Victoria Hasko
core   +1 more source

Virtual exchanges in an inquiry-based learning environment: Effects on intra-cultural awareness and intercultural communicative competence

open access: yesCogent Education, 2021
While many studies indicate that “virtual exchanges” also known as telecollaboration are useful for developing intercultural communicative competence, there is a paucity of research on how learners acquire new knowledge related to their own culture and ...
Murod Ismailov
doaj   +1 more source

BMELTET: Blending MOOCs into English Language Teacher Education with Telecollaboration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper reports on how the FutureLearn MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Becoming a Better Teacher was blended into English Language Teaching (ELT) university programmes in conjunction with telecollaboration.
Byram   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Fostering foreign language student teachers’ glocal competence through telecollaboration

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The interconnectivity of peoples worldwide is sufficient rationale for foreign language learners to develop the relevant competences for intercultural interactions in both local and global–glocalcontexts.
Oneil Madden
doaj   +1 more source

Fostering intercultural competence through videoconference exchange: using an external provider to match learners with trained native speakers and administer video calls

open access: yesJournal of Virtual Exchange, 2021
This practical case presents the use of an External Provider (EP) as an alternative approach to the traditional telecollaboration setting where a partnership with a foreign higher education institution is established.
Alonso Varo Varo
doaj   +1 more source

Telecollaborative Language Learning

open access: yesKnE Social Sciences, 2020
In recent years, we can witness a still growing interest in the method, sometimes called Telecollaboration, sometimes Virtual Exchange, not only in foreign language education but also in many other disciplines. Basically, this is a long online communication between groups of students or pupils from different geographical locations and different ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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