Technology%20in%20research%20and%20teaching:%20the%20view%20from%20the%20University%20of%20Southampton,%20UK

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Technology in research and teaching the view
from the University of Southampton, UK
Kate Borthwick Modern Languages, University of
Southampton21 May 2013, Tomsk, Russia
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Overview

• eLearning at the University of Southampton, UK
• Course support
• Distance learning
• Authoring tools
• Teaching and learning repositories
• Developments in technology to support teaching
  and learning
• open educational resources
• communities and social media

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eLearning at Southampton

• Course support
• EAP toolkit and Study Skills Toolkit
• In-sessional and pre-sessional support

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EAP toolkit

• Learning to study
• Academic writing
• Academic reading and critical thinking
• Academic listening and note-taking
• Academic communication skills
• Grammar for academic purposes
• Vocabulary for academic purposes

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Online, distance courses

• Online, distance MA in English Language Teaching

Information and example materials at
http//tinyurl.com/bqwpsgl
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Online, distance courses

• Pre-arrival courses for international students
• Boarding Pass (tutored, 2000 students last year)
• Prepare for Success www.prepareforsuccess.org.uk

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The LOC tool

• Learning Object Creator (LOC)
• Online authoring tool to create interactive
  materials in the style of the EAP toolkit
• No technical support required
• Simple, easy-to-use
• Clear pedagogic approach
• Professional look

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Open access repositories

• Open educational practice publishing teaching
  resources for others to use, download and adapt
  for their own classes
• The LanguageBox www.languagebox.ac.uk
• Share teaching materials
• Find materials
• Make contact with others

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New ways to support teaching and learning.
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Open educational resources

• "OERs are teaching, learning and research
  resources that reside in the public domain or
  have been released under an intellectual property
  license that permits their free use or
  re-purposing by others.
• (Report for the William and Flora Hewlett
  Foundation, 2012)
• Whole courses big OER
• Official sites iTunesU, YouTubeEdu, TEDtalks
• Individual resources small OER

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Benefits in using/creating OERs

• demonstrates excellence in teaching
• way of showing impact as a teacher and as an
  institution
• raises your profile (and your institutions) at
  home and internationally
• a way of linking research and teaching
• demonstrates excellence in content, technology or
  pedagogy
• a way of making connections in discipline
  community
• a way of making contact with other audiences for
  your work
• encourages collaborative working

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Communities and social media

• Social media enables communities to grow around
  shared interests and they offer support and new
  ideas
• Find communities all over the internet,
  especially on Facebook and Twitter
• MFL Twitterers the best staffroom in the world
  mfltwitterati
• Massive open online courses (MOOCs) what does
  this mean for conventional providers of
  education?

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???????! useful links

• Selected open content repositories
• Humanities www.humbox.ac.uk
• Languages www.languagebox.ac.uk
  www.loro.open.ac.uk
• http//coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/home
• All subjects www.jorum.ac.uk or
  http//www.oercommons.org/
• For tips on cool new tools and how to use them in
  education http//www.teachertrainingvideos.com/
  e.g. MyBrainshark, Linoit
• Authoring tools LOC http//loc.llas.ac.uk and
  Xerte www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte

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more useful links

• For more about Massive Open Online Courses
  (MOOCs) listen to this webinar http//www.jisc.ac.
  uk/events/2012/07/webinarmooc.aspx
• Free MOOC-style courses at
• - Khan Academy http//www.khanacademy.org/
• - Udacity https//www.udacity.com/
• - Coursera https//www.coursera.org/