2. UniCollaboration Platform
Main functions:
• Interactive platform for Telecollaboration/OIE in HE
• Information resource for teachers, mobility coordinators,
administrators, students:
– Sample Projects
– Tasks, Task sequences
– Practitioners, Institutions, Classes
– Training and ‘how to’ materials
• Tools for practitioners: create tasks, describe classes, search
for classes, use ePortfolio
• Social functions: forum, messaging, blogs
• Announcements and site activities on home page
3. Development
• Design, programming and hosting: OU,
Knowledge Media Institute (Chris Valentine)
• Functional specs: Lead Groningen (Jager,
Thorne), contributions from all partners
• Site designed in Drupal
• Released to the public: February 2013, still
being improved and extended
• Full version: End 2013
11. Practitioner profile
• Personal details:
– Info section
– Contact form
– FB and Skype user name
• Institutional details
– Access to other practitioners in the same institution
• List of classes available for telecollaboration
• List of tasks created
• Function to establish new partnerships
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14. Structure of the task databank
• Stand-alone tasks – the smallest possible units of interaction
between partcipants
• Task sequences –examples how long-term exchanges can be
structured, consist of stand-alone tasks.
21. Class search tool
• Tool for finding classes to work with
• Searchable fields include (not finalized yet):
– Target language
– Target level
– Host country
– Dominant language production
– Period
• Possibly map searches in the future
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23. Eportfolio for Telecollaborative Language Learning
• Set of competences to identify the “Telecollaboratively Competent
Person” (TEP)
• Help individuals keep track of their development during an online
exchange
• 3 parts:
– descriptors (also goals for self- and other-directed learning)
– template for Personal Reflection Diary (to link descriptors with
events before, during and after an online exchange)
– sample rubric (criteria based on descriptors for self-progress
reports, peer evaluation/s, formative assessment)
24. Part 1: Descriptors of Telecollaborative Effective Person
• 4 main areas:
– Online Language Competences (not to be confused with general
language learning levels!)
– Social Competences
– Technical Competences
– Cross-Cultural Competences
• Main areas divided into 3 'macro' KSAs (Knowledge, Skills,
Attitudes)
• 'Macros'devided into 'micro' KSAs (to pinpoint specific actions that
can reflect development →assessment of competences)
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28. Afternoon workshop
• Set up personal profile
• Browse sample projects and tasks
• Design your own task
• Put the task on the platform