Federal funding for the Title VI Language Resource Center (LRC) Program has been abruptly discontinued after 35 years of work in world language education. As a result, many LRCs including the NFLRC will be unable to carry out most of their activities planned for the fourth year of the current funding cycle (2025–2026). Learn More

    2016 Materials Development for Online Language Courses

    • September 28-October 26, 2016
    • Project Lead(s): Julio Rodriguez & Song Jiang
    • Facilitator(s):

      Ellen Hart (Project Advisor), Susan Hojnacki (Facilitator), Stephen Tschudi (Staff), Russ Suvorov (Staff), Hui-Ya Chuang (Staff)

    Description

    Designed for in-service online language teachers, this course, offered in Fall 2016, focuses on issues in materials development for online language courses, including motivating factors, strategies and principles (such as scaffolding), the unique affordances of online technologies, and the shared experience of online language educators in developing materials. It is a part of the NFLRC Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) Series. Successful completion of this course earns a badge conferred by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawai‘i). Badge earners are eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications.

    Registration is free. LAST DAY TO REGISTER for access to the live webinar series is SEPTEMBER 26, 2016. Please note that a screencast of these webinar sessions will be recorded and made available as an open educational resource in TED-Ed.

    Webinar Dates

    Sep 28 | Oct 5 | Oct 12 | Oct 19 | Oct 26

    Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 p.m. (Hawaii Standard Time), 4:30-6:30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time), 5:30-7:30 p.m. (Mountain Daylight Time), 6:30-8:30 p.m. (Central Daylight Time), 7:30-9:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time)

    Products

    Successful completion of this course will earn a badge conferred by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (University of Hawai‘i). Badge earners from will be eligible to earn a Continuing Education Unit (CEU) towards maintaining their professional qualifications. To earn the badge, registrants must meet the criteria listed here.

    More Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) resources

    For more resources, check our our main Online Language Pedagogy (OLP) series webpage.