Teaching Literature and Language Online - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1603290575 ISBN 13 : 9781603290579

Editeur : Modern Language Association of America, 2009

Synopsis

Educators today teach in a range of formats, from traditional face-to-face courses to Web-assisted courses in physical classrooms to entirely online courses in which the teacher and students never meet in person. The pressure to integrate teaching with information technology is strong, and more and more educational institutions are offering blended courses and distance-education learning options.

The essays in this collection illuminate the realities of teaching language and literature courses online. Contributors present snapshots of their experiences with online pedagogies, realizing that, just as this year's technology writes over last year's, the approaches and teaching tools they have pioneered will also be obscured by future innovations. At the same time, the volume describes models that first-time teachers of online courses will find useful and provides extensive insights into online education for those who are experienced in teaching blended and open-source courses.

The volume begins with an overview of online education in the fields of literature and language and then offers case studies of particular technologies used in specific courses. Subjects extend from Old English and ancient world literature to Shakespeare and modern poetry, and languages include Aymara, Chinese, English as a second language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Contributors describe using multimedia Web sites, cyberplay and gaming, bulletin boards, chat rooms, blogs, wikis, natural language processing, podcasting, course management systems, annotated electronic editions, text-analysis tools, and open-source applications. They show that online pedagogies often have surprising capabilities--such as transforming a Web-based environment into an intimate social community spanning institutions and oceans, saving endangered languages, and rescuing isolated communities and individuals who have no other educational lifeline.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Lancashire, professor of English at the University of Toronto, is author of Two Tudor Interludes, Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain, and The Humanities Computing Yearbook;coauthor ofUsing TACT with Electronic Texts, and editor of the Web-based databases Representative Poetry Onlineand Lexicons of Early Modern English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Modern Language Association of America
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603290575
• ISBN 13: 9781603290579
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 462
• Éditeur: Lancashire Ian
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible