People at the Centre Computer Mediated Communication and Learning

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People at the Centre - Computer Mediated
Communication and Learning

• Jane Hughes
• UCL (University College London)
• jane.hughes_at_ucl.ac.uk

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Current HE preoccupations (UK)

• Internationalisation and global citizenship
• Providing for international students
• Giving students and international experience
• Building awareness of global issues into the
  curriculum
• The student experience
• National Student Survey
• Assessment and feedback
• Skills

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Ed-Tech 2008 Topics

• Blended learning
• Formal and informal learning
• Independent learning
• Mobile learning
• Video
• Screencasts, podcasting, video feedback
• Digital literacy
• Student-created content
• Student research
• Piloting and evaluation
• Discipline-based innovations
• Affective factors

• Blogging
• Social networks
• Virtual worlds
• Communities of practice
• Making the most of
• VLE, RSS, whiteboard
• Online teaching strategies
• Authentic learning contexts
• real world projects simulations, case studies
• Designing for learning

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Research goals
Leading edge

• System specification/needs analysis
• Determining feasibility
• Understanding process
• Evaluation (efficiency, effectiveness, usability,
  other costs benefits)
• Defining good practice

Established use
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1996
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Studying CMC

• The medium
• Interactivity, expressiveness, richness,
  persistence
• Matching tasks to media
• Role of audio, video, text
• Multimedia and learning
• Human communication
• Awareness, Gesture, Gaze, Eye-contact, Gender,
  dialogue and learning
• Collaboration and group working
• Analysing activities and learning tasks
• Roles and relationships
• Groups size
• Motivation and enjoyment
• Process and outcome

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Classroom communication
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NTE
Partial anonymity
Writing in public
Language use
Feedback
Persistent text
Collaborative writing
Seeing other students work
Awareness
Use of colour and position
Teacher-student relationships
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Cross-cultural CMC

• CrossCall
• Schools/university collaboration
• Asynchronous (discussion forum)
• Students paired across the sectors
• Three languages originally (now more)
• German 360 paired activity/402 total messages
• Russian 108/202
• Spanish 99/146
• Topics partly guided by teachers
• Some face-to-face introductions
• Real life constraints and difficulties
• Perspectives
• Multilingual Internet
• Electronic literacy
• Language learning

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Languages and literacies

• Multilingual Internet
• Online written language
• Language choice
• Code switching
• Written and spoken forms,
• How writers adapt to technical constraints
• How languages influence one another
• Electronic literacy
• (How) should language learners be taught online
  communication in the target language? (Schetzer
  and Warschauer, 2000 Chen, 2006)
• Language learning
• Collaboration between native speakers and
  language learners online (eg Lee, 2004)
• Developing student writing in the target language

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Example overview of dialogues
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Ja!!! Ich habe mir viel Stress! Nachstes Woche
habe ich funf (tests) funf!!!! funf!!! Es ist
nicht fair! Ich muss ein Presentation uber Bayern
machen auch! Obwohl, es sehr interessant war,
als ich uber Oktoberfest lernen. . Ich muss
verlassen, weil die Stunde beginnt ist! (sorry
there are no umlauts, they did not work!)
Schreib bald D
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CMC and the conference themes

• Changes in pedagogy, technology and publishing
  are collapsing the boundaries
• between students and teachers,
• content creators and users and educators and
  technologists
• Transforming learning practice?

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References

• Chen, C-F. E. (2006). The Development of E-Mail
  Literacy from Writing to Peers to Writing to
  Authority Figures. Language Learning
  Technology, Vol.10, No.2, May 2006, pp.35-55
• Durham, Mercedes (2003). Language Choice on a
  Swiss Mailing List. JCMC (Journal of Computer
  Mediated Communication?), Vol 9, issue 1.
• Danet, Brenda, Herring, Susan C. (2003).
  Introduction The Multilingual Internet. JCMC 9
  (1), November 2003
• Lee, Lina (2004). Learners Perspectives on
  Networked Collaborative Interaction with Native
  Speakers of Spanish in the US. Language Learning
  Technology 8(1), January 2004, pp 83-100
• Shetzer, H., Warschauer, M. (2000) An Electronic
  Literacy Approach to Network-based Language
  Teaching. In Warschauer, M., Kern, R. (Eds.)
  Network based Language Teaching Concepts and
  Practice. New York Cambridge University Press
• Mark Warschauer, Ghada R. El Said, Ayman Zohry
  (2003). Language Choice Online Globalization and
  Identity in Egypt. The Multilingual Internet.
  JCMC 9 (1), November 2003
• Hyland, K. (2006) Feedback in Second Language
  Writing Contexts and Issues. Cambridge
  University Press.
• Crosscall http//www.ucl.ac.uk/crosscall/
• NTE downloadablefrom www.cs.ucl.ac.uk
• Hearnshaw (2006) Will Podcasting finally kill the
  lecture? Guardian, September 2006.
  www.EducationGuardian.co.uk/ Last accessed May
  2008.
• Eduserve symposium - http//www.eduserv.org.uk/fou
  ndation/symposium/2007