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Virtual Language Lab on iLearn

Virtual Language Lab on iLearn. Ming Yang Faculty Technology Support Computing & Communication. Vision:. Deploying high quality digital Audio/Video (AV) technology on iLearn will cut cost and maximize AV services for the benefit of language instructors and students. Goal:.

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Virtual Language Lab on iLearn

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  1. Virtual Language Lab on iLearn Ming Yang Faculty Technology Support Computing & Communication

  2. Vision: • Deploying high quality digital Audio/Video (AV) technology on iLearn will cut cost and maximize AV services for the benefit of language instructors and students.

  3. Goal: • Provide Language Instructors with frequently used Language Lab audio/video (AV) materials through creating a virtual AV environment and building language specific modules in iLearn.

  4. Challenges and Obstacles • Diminishing use of analog AV technology • High serving cost of Analog AV technology • Difficult to integrated into new digital media that the on-line course environment requires

  5. AV Implementation Hurdles • Converting, digitizing, uploading, streaming • Setting up the content on iLearn • Downloading and installing players • Troubleshooting problems • High cost of equipment required

  6. Virtual AV Environment on iLearn • RealNetworks streaming system • Voice messaging system • Voice email • High Quality digital audio video playback • AV enabled Quizzes and practices • Convenient iLearn user interface

  7. iLearn Background • CMS powered by Blackboard Enterprise Version 6.10 • Managing about 2000 course each quarter • Archiving course content of past quarters • Supporting Art Studio • Serving library E Reserve

  8. AV Course Modules on iLearn • Transform pre-existing analog AV content • Conveniently updated and reused environment • Easily incorporated into any iLearn coursesat any course level

  9. Tool Areas of aCourse Module • Voice board with listening and speaking exercises • Voice email for submitting real voice assignments • Web based audio dictionary • Links to language learning sites • Links to radio and TV channels • Links to video conferencing sites • Links to language word processing tools

  10. Content Areas of aCourse Module • Streamed class AV recordings • Streamed AV recordings of class-related events • Streamed course and lab recordings • Instructor’s narrations and voice embedded presentations • Student AV projects • Voice enabled quiz and practice exercises

  11. Benefits of AV Course Modules for Instruction • Enrich the course with added AV environment • Free to customize and recycle • Easy to control, deploy and collect • Starting point to develop online teaching strategies • Save instructor’s time in • Preparing and assigning AV course material • Checking listening/speaking exercises • Interacting with students off class

  12. Benefits of AV Course Modules for Students • Single point of access to the online AV content • AV content available anytime for any authorized user • Increased interactivity with the AV content and instructors • Increased student time-on-task by focusing pre-class preparation • more in-depth class discussion

  13. Design • Designed course module format • Drafted the course module proposal • Formed a committee of leading language instructors • Held 2meetings to finalize the proposal

  14. Testing • Set up and testing servers and digitizing equipment • Tested the production process • created a course module • Modified and improved the course module

  15. Promotion • Demos to instructors • Survey among instructors • Identify the instructors for iLearn course implementation

  16. Production • Created models of course modules • Identified the key instructors for AV course module implementation • Digitizing, Streaming, and importing the AV content • Created one module for each discipline

  17. Implementation • Implement the course modules into selected iLearn course sites • Support for course modules • Evaluate the use of course modules • Improving and Updating the course modules

  18. Demo of a Course Moduleon iLearn

  19. Recommendation & Feedback • Questions • Recommendation • Send me an email for the white paper: ming.yang@ucr.edu

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