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COSELLO Conference on Open Source in Education and Language Learning Online Special Theme: The problem of language learning online – Is Moodle the answer? Friday 28th to Saturday 29th September 2007
University of Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland Invited Speakers:
Carol A. Chapelle
Professor of TESL and Applied Linguistics
Iowa State University Dr Ana M. Gimeno-Sanz
President EUROCALL
Director - Área de Apoyo Lingüíistico a la I+D+i
Departamento de Lingüística Aplicada
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
This conference is the final event in a two-year European project (Covcell), aimed at supporting language learning and teaching in an online environment by adding tools which support collaboration and co-operation to the functionlities already provided by the Moodle learning management system. As well as showcasing the collaborative tools developed by the project, the conference seeks to address critical issues in the field of online language learning from two perspectives: (1) the pedagogical perspective of the effectiveness of cohort-oriented, task-based approaches to language learning and teaching in an online environment; (2) the technical perspective of open source development of tools which support online language learning and teaching.
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