Just come back with David from the EuroCALL conference in Gothenburg, hosted by Gothenburg University.
Very interesting few days of workshops, exhibitions and more academically-orientated papers on all aspects of CALL (computer-aided language learning) and ICT. I've never been to this conference before but the impression I got was that Facebook and other forms of social media are now beginning to assume a more important place alongside traditional language learning activities.
The use of online course management systems (sometimes called virtual learning environments or VLEs) is also a big trend in the world of CALL. The open source VLE Moodle is being increasingly used not just here in Sweden but all over the world. My feeling is that course management systems integrating learning activities, chat, blogs, quizzes, tests and forums will also become important in schools.
We talk about these developments and others in more detail in future posts.
Very interesting few days of workshops, exhibitions and more academically-orientated papers on all aspects of CALL (computer-aided language learning) and ICT. I've never been to this conference before but the impression I got was that Facebook and other forms of social media are now beginning to assume a more important place alongside traditional language learning activities.
The use of online course management systems (sometimes called virtual learning environments or VLEs) is also a big trend in the world of CALL. The open source VLE Moodle is being increasingly used not just here in Sweden but all over the world. My feeling is that course management systems integrating learning activities, chat, blogs, quizzes, tests and forums will also become important in schools.
We talk about these developments and others in more detail in future posts.
Link to EuroCALL website
Chris
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