Distance Education to Distributed Learning: Multiple Formats and Technologies in Language Instruction

Stephen Fleming; David Hiple

CALICO Journal Vol. 22, No. 1 (September 2004) pp. 63–82

Distance education has evolved through many delivery formats, conforming in varying degrees to an Information Age definition of "distance education" that emphasizes two-way electronic communication. The technological characteristics and limitations...

BRIX — Elements for Language Course Creation

Manisa Sawatpanit; Dan Suthers; Stephen Fleming

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 415–422

This paper describes the development of a courseware authoring tool, BRIX, which was built specifically for the second language acquisition domain. A needs analysis identified specific requirements of online language learning and the inadequacy of...

Topics: Learning Management Systems, Computer Sciences, Languages, Information Sciences

Reading Chinese Together: Uses of the Web Forum for Individualized and Group-based Language Learning

Jung Ying Lu-Chen; Stephen Fleming; C. Candace Chou

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) p. 1675

This session tackles issues in teaching foreign languages on the Web. The poster presentation on course design for a Web-based third-year level Chinese reading class will address the following challenges: · creating a model for Web-based course...

Topics: System Configurations, Languages